Data Center Migration Architect
United IT Solutions
Role: Data Center Migration Architect Location: San Jose CA (Onsite) Job Description:
The Data Center Migration Architect is responsible for planning, designing, and governing end-to-end data center migration initiatives, including data center consolidation, exit, modernization, and hybrid transformations . This role ensures that migration strategies are secure, scalable, minimally disruptive , and aligned with business and operational requirements.
The architect works closely with application, infrastructure, network, security, and operations teams to deliver migrations from legacy or on-premises data centers to new data centers, private cloud, or hybrid environments . Key Responsibilities
The Data Center Migration Architect is responsible for planning, designing, and governing end-to-end data center migration initiatives, including data center consolidation, exit, modernization, and hybrid transformations . This role ensures that migration strategies are secure, scalable, minimally disruptive , and aligned with business and operational requirements.
The architect works closely with application, infrastructure, network, security, and operations teams to deliver migrations from legacy or on-premises data centers to new data centers, private cloud, or hybrid environments . Key Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end data center migration strategies and roadmaps.
- Lead discovery, assessment, and dependency analysis of existing data center environments.
- Design migration architectures covering compute, network, storage, security, and platform layers.
- Select appropriate migration approaches (rehost, re-platform, re-architect, retire).
- Develop migration wave plans, cutover strategies, rollback plans, and validation approaches.
- Govern execution of migrations to ensure alignment with architectural intent and best practices.
- Ensure security, compliance, resiliency, and performance requirements are met throughout migration.
- Identify migration risks, constraints, and mitigation strategies proactively.
- Collaborate with delivery leads and deployment pods to support execution and issue resolution.
- Ensure proper documentation, knowledge transfer, and handover to operations teams.
- Strong experience leading data center migration and consolidation programs
- Deep understanding of:
- Data center infrastructure (compute, network, storage)
- Virtualization platforms (VMware / KVM)
- Network migration and connectivity planning
- Security and compliance considerations during migrations
- Experience with hybrid data center and cloud-adjacent architectures
- Ability to translate business goals into executable migration designs
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-team coordination
- Experience working in large-scale, multi-wave migration engagements
- Data Center or Infrastructure Architecture certifications
- VMware / Cisco certifications
- Cloud or Hybrid Architecture certifications
- TOGAF or equivalent (nice to have)
Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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