Data Centre Architect

Data Centre Architect

London, Manchester or Newark

Up to £90,000

Aztrum is delighted to be representing a privately owned company, that currently have up to 90 staff members, spread over three offices (Newark, Manchester and London. Due to an increase in growth, my client is looking for a Data Centre Architect to join the team.

You will be responsible for shaping and delivering innovative, scalable, and resilient data centre solutions to support our business-critical operations. You will work closely with infrastructure, networking, and cloud teams to design architectures that meet current needs while preparing for future growth and transformation.

Key Responsibilities for this Data Centre Architect role:

Lead the design and architecture of enterprise-scale data centre solutions across multiple sites.
Define and document technical standards, strategies, and roadmaps for infrastructure.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure data centre architectures.
Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, and vendors to optimise performance and cost efficiency.
Ensure designs comply with best practices in security, resilience, disaster recovery, and sustainability.
Act as a subject matter expert, mentoring engineering teams and supporting implementation.Skills & Experience Required for this Data Centre Architect role:

Proven experience as a Data Centre Architect, Infrastructure Architect, or equivalent senior role.
Strong knowledge of enterprise networking, storage, compute, and virtualisation platforms.
Hands-on experience with data centre migrations, consolidations, and hybrid cloud integration.
Familiarity with industry standards and frameworks (e.g., ITIL, TOGAF, Uptime Institute).
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Relevant certifications (e.g., Cisco, VMware, AWS, Azure) are desirable.Interested? Then please send a CV to to apply