Azure Solutions Architect / Senior Technical Consultant (Migration & Archival Focus)

JOB DESCRIPTION: Based on the additional context provided in the second email, here is the further enhanced Job Description for the Azure Solutions Architect / Senior Technical Consultant. This version emphasizes the extreme urgency, the use of Sharegate for data and metadata extraction, and the critical need for a robust, secure design to avoid the risks associated with unsecured interim solutions.

Job Title: Azure Solutions Architect / Senior Technical Consultant (Migration & Archival Focus)

Project Context: The BLP business unit is facing a critical deadline as SharePoint 2019 reaches end-of-support in mid-July. With 7 TB of data that is becoming increasingly difficult to manage, the business has barely one month of sustainability remaining on the current platform. Hexaware is tasked with providing a robust, highly secure Azure Files-based archival solution to prevent the need for riskier, unsecured interim storage options currently under review by the client's IRR (Information Risk & Resilience) team.

Key Responsibilities

• Urgent High-Level Design (HLD): Rapidly develop an Azure-centric HLD that prioritizes security and robustness to gain immediate approval from technical architects and IRR.
• Design a solution that incorporates Azure Files and Azure Backup, ensuring that while primary storage is locally redundant, backups are stored in a different region (e.g., outside UK South) for disaster recovery.
• Address long-term data retention needs (up to 22 years) and the potential for a separate Azure subscription for the business unit.
• Migration Strategy & Tooling (Sharegate): Utilize Sharegate to facilitate the migration of 7 TB of data from SharePoint 2019 to Azure. Ensure the migration preserves metadata, utilizing Sharegate’s ability to export metadata into readable formats like CSV for long-term archival accessibility.
• Provide an end-to-end testing framework to validate data integrity post-migration.
• Automated Infrastructure Provisioning: Author Terraform scripts to provision the necessary Azure environment, including networking (private endpoints/tunnels) and identity controls (Entra ID). Deliver validated non-production and test environments to allow for immediate migration dry-runs.
• Stakeholder & Financial Reporting: Provide clear monthly cost implications and forecasts for the proposed Azure resources. Present milestones and technical designs to the client, ensuring they understand the timeline required to hit the mid-July deadline.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Location: Must be based in the UK.

• Architectural Excellence: A proven "architect mindset" with experience creating technical designs that meet stringent enterprise quality standards.
• Sharegate Expertise: Deep hands-on experience using Sharegate for large-scale SharePoint migrations, specifically for extracting data and metadata into file-based archival systems.
• Azure Networking & Security: Expertise in Private Endpoints, secure tunnels, and data encryption at rest and in transit.
• High-Volume Migration: Experience managing large-scale data moves (multiple terabytes) under tight time constraints.
• IaC Skills: Proficiency in Terraform for Azure infrastructure automation.

Critical Success Factors

• Speed of Delivery: The ability to move from requirement gathering to a proposed solution within days to meet the mid-July decommissioning of SharePoint 2019.
• Security Approval: Designing a solution that is "IRR-ready" to bypass the need for unsecure interim platforms.