Spencer Rose are urgently seeking a Solutions Architect with experience in Migration & Data Platforms, to work for our banking client in Manchester. 6-12 month contract, Immediate start Start: ASAP Location: Manchester - must be on site 2 days a week Rate: £(Apply online only)pd Inside IR35 Duration: 6-12 months The role: Define and govern the end-to-end architecture for large-scale data migration solutions. Ensure migration designs align with enterprise standards, target-state platforms and strategic technology direction, whilst enabling successful delivery across Migration Factory, Data Engineering and business teams. Key Responsibilities * Define end-to-end migration architectures, patterns and technical solutions. * Produce and govern solution designs, HLDs and architecture decision records. * Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security and data governance standards. * Define migration approaches for data ingestion, transformation, reconciliation and target consumption. * Provide design oversight and technical guidance to Data Engineers and Software Engineers. * Identify and manage architecture risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies. * Support tooling and platform decisions across migration programmes. * Collaborate with business, engineering and platform teams to shape migration roadmaps and delivery plans. * Drive reusability, standardisation and continuous improvement across migration solutions. Essential * Solution architecture and system design * Cloud-native architectures * Data architecture and modelling * Data integration and transformation patterns * Large-scale data migration programmes * Security, governance and design assurance * Architecture documentation and stakeholder management * Strong communication and influencing skills Desirable * Banking or financial services experience * Foundation Data Product (FDP) architectures * dbt and modern data platform tooling * Event-driven and distributed architectures * GCP and cloud data services * Data quality, reconciliation and migration controls Interviews are taking place next week, so if available and interested APPLY NOW