DATACENTER ARCHITECT L3

DATACENTER ARCHITECT L3 Overview

Wipro Limited is seeking a highly experienced Data Center Architect to lead and support large-scale data center transformation projects for clients. This role involves end-to-end management, from strategic assessment and planning to designing target architectures, migration, governance, and execution oversight. The successful candidate will act as a trusted technical advisor, ensuring that the transformation is secure, resilient, compliant, and operationally efficient, while coordinating across multiple teams and technology domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess current data center environments, including compute, storage, network, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, and operational processes.
• Develop comprehensive transformation strategies and roadmaps aligned with business drivers such as cost efficiency, resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Design and own the target data center architecture, covering compute platforms, hyper-converged infrastructure, storage strategies, network fabric, virtualization, security, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Create detailed architecture deliverables, including high-level and low-level designs, reference architectures, and design patterns, ensuring operational supportability.
• Plan and define migration approaches, including rehosting, replatforming, or refactoring, with detailed migration plans, dependency mapping, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensure smooth migration execution, including testing, failover, and stabilization activities to maintain service continuity.
• Establish architecture governance through design reviews, checkpoints, and risk management, ensuring adherence to standards and non-functional requirements.
• Guide multiple delivery streams to achieve integrated outcomes across compute, storage, network, security, and operational teams.
• Act as the primary technical contact for client stakeholders, communicating trade-offs, risks, and decisions clearly, and maintaining detailed documentation.
• Support knowledge transfer to client teams for operational readiness and steady-state management.

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise in data center and infrastructure architecture, with proven leadership in large transformation programs.
• Strong practical knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and disaster recovery within data centers.
• Ability to develop strategies and translate them into detailed, implementable designs.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform is advantageous.
• Certifications like VMware (VCP/VCAP), TOGAF, Cisco (CCNP), or ITIL are preferred.

Benefits

• Work on innovative digital transformation projects with a global leader in technology services.
• Join a diverse team and gain exposure to advanced technologies and methodologies.
• Opportunities for professional growth and certification.
• Supportive and inclusive workplace environment.

Working Pattern

Onsite in London, with potential for hybrid or flexible working arrangements depending on project requirements.

Sponsorship Information

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Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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