Solutions Architect - Data Platforms and API MigrationLocation: Manchester (Hybrid)Salary 80,000 - 90,000 DOEAbout the OpportunityA trailblazer in the legal sector is seeking a Solutions Architect with a specialist focus on legacy systems transformation, API-centric design, and enterprise-scale data platform migration. The company is recognised for embracing cutting-edge technology and innovation, driving platform modernisation to support the professional services of the future.This high-impact, strategic architecture role offers the chance to lead on technology consolidation, shape future-state data and application landscapes, and set a clear roadmap for unifying and migrating core business-critical systems to modern SaaS and Azure-based solutions.Key ResponsibilitiesApplication Portfolio Mapping: Catalogue and document all enterprise systems, with focus on legacy platforms and complex business interdependencies.Portfolio Analysis and Planning: Use data-driven approaches to evaluate consolidation opportunities, identifying what to retain, retire or modernise.Consolidation Roadmap: Develop a technically robust engineering roadmap for migration and integration from on-premises/legacy platforms to cloud-based solutions, ensuring APIs and data flows are optimised.Target Architecture Design: Create scalable, resilient and secure architecture blueprints for a future-state data and applications landscape using SaaS, microservices, and APIs.Integration and Migration: Lead integratio