Senior Technical Lead – Enterprise Migration

Company: Edison Smart®
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Location: South Yorkshire
Job Description:

We’re looking for experienced Senior Technical Leads to own key technology domains and migration workstreams on a major financial services platform modernisation programme, migrating a global VMware estate of 250,000+ VMs to OpenShift.


This is a hands-on delivery role, not a purely advisory one. You’ll combine deep technical infrastructure knowledge with delivery leadership, owning outcomes, resolving complex technical challenges, and coordinating across engineering, architecture, operations and programme teams.


What You’ll Do



  • Lead a defined technology domain or migration workstream

  • Own technical direction, decisions and delivery outcomes

  • Drive migration and platform modernisation activity through to completion

  • Identify and remove technical blockers, risks and dependencies

  • Stay hands-on while providing technical leadership

  • Represent your workstream in governance and technical review forums

  • Engage confidently with senior engineers, architects and executive stakeholders


What We’re Looking For



  • Strong enterprise infrastructure/server technical knowledge

  • Deep experience with large-scale virtualised environments, particularly VMware/vSphere

  • Track record leading major migration or platform modernisation workstreams

  • Experience owning delivery outcomes, not just advising on them

  • Ability to operate independently in large, complex enterprise environments

  • Credibility with senior engineers, architects and executive stakeholders

  • Comfortable challenging technical decisions and leading experienced engineering teams


Relevant tech: VMware vSphere, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, platform engineering, compute/x86, networking, storage.


Backgrounds we’re interested in: Senior Technical Architect, Technical Lead, Principal Consultant, Engineering Lead, Senior Infrastructure Architect.

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Posted: September 26th, 2026