Job Description
We are seeking 3 experienced Senior Solution Architects to lead critical application and corporate decoupling initiatives during a major divestment.
The role spans both the physical separation of an existing data centre (e.g., cage, rack, network, and shared-service separation between the remaining entity and the divested entity) and the design of the target environment and migration approach to move workloads to a new platform. You will operate in a complex, ambiguous environment, shaping solutions with incomplete precedents, and contribute to refining existing disentanglement playbooks.
Role:
- Lead architecture for application and company separation across a diverse estate of ~80 applications, including GBST, Workday, ServiceNow
- Design data walls, segregation patterns, tenant controls, network segmentation, and identity separation in regulated environments
- Design the physical separation of data centres and develop migration strategies for workloads to new environments
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, stakeholders, and vendors to translate architecture into actionable outcomes
- Produce high-level designs, decoupling patterns, and transition plans
- Contribute to governance and communicate complex concepts clearly
Experience:
- Proven experience in enterprise solution architecture, corporate disentanglement, or divestiture programmes
- Expertise in application architecture, data segregation, and SaaS platforms in regulated environmets
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 tenant architecture, Azure AD, network segmentation, and data centre separation
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Preferred:
- Experience in UK financial services (wealth management, pensions, insurance)
- Familiarity with GBST, Workday, ServiceNow
- Architecture certifications (TOGAF, Azure, AWS)
- Knowledge of FCA, GDPR, data residency regulations
Long term multi-year contract inside IR35 - Edinburgh x3 days as week non negotiable - Strong market rates
Diversity Statement
Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.