Lead Storage & Data Architect
On-siteMaidenhead, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Assess the current-state architecture, capacity, and performance of the file/HPC and block estates, producing data maps and tiering candidates. Design the data-management and orchestration layer, including cataloguing, policy-driven tiering, and lifecycle retention aligned with compliance obligations. Develop high- and low-level designs for the target storage architecture, ensuring vendor-neutral options appraisals weigh performance against whole-life CapEx and OPEX. Facilitate technical workshops with client teams and contribute to requirements and risk registers. Deliver secure-by-design, migration-ready artefacts for the Discovery gate and costed design-phase estimates.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years
- Substantial experience designing enterprise storage at multi-petabyte scale, across both file and block
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Dell PowerScale/Isilon and Dell PowerMax (or directly comparable scale-out NAS and enterprise block platforms)
- HPC / research-computing storage: parallel or scale-out file systems and high-throughput, low-latency workloads
- Proven data-management design – cataloguing, tagging, policy tiering, lifecycle/retention and archive (object, tape/cold)
- Vendor-neutral architecture and options appraisal, with strong HLD/LLD documentation
- Capacity and performance analysis from storage telemetry; whole-life cost modelling (CapEx vs OPEX)
- Hybrid-cloud storage awareness (e.g. object storage, Azure NetApp Files) and where cloud does and does not fit
- Confident stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation and clear technical writing
Desired Qualifications
- Higher-education or research-intensive environments; long-term funding-agency data-retention obligations
- Producing vendor-neutral designs that feed competitive procurements
- Data governance / classification frameworks; tape cold-storage archive projects
- Dell Technologies storage certifications (PowerScale/Isilon, PowerMax / PowerStore)
- Architecture framework such as TOGAF; Microsoft Azure fundamentals/associate
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