GitHub Architect

Role-   GitHub Architect

Location- Remote

Duration- 12+ Months

Key responsibilities

Key Skills - GHES, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, migration strategy, repository architecture.

Responsibilities -

• Lead assessment of current GitHub Enterprise Cloud footprint, repositories, workflows, integrations, and dependencies.
• Develop migration strategies for repositories, branches, pull requests, workflows, actions, secrets, and user permissions.
• Establish migration waves, cutover planning, rollback procedures, and validation mechanisms.
• Drive platform readiness and operational acceptance criteria.

Must Have -

• Hands-on experience leading enterprise-scale migrations involving GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC). GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES). Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bitbucket. or similar platforms.
• Proven experience migrating:
• Source code repositories
• Branching strategies and repository governance
• Pull requests and associated metadata
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Secrets and credentials management
• Developer access models and permissions
• Experience planning and executing migration waves, cutover activities, rollback strategies, and post-migration validation.
• Demonstrated success delivering platform migrations with minimal developer disruption and no loss of source code integrity.
• Experience assessing and remediating dependencies on third-party integrations, GitHub Actions, runners, artifact repositories, security scanners, and deployment platforms.

Familiarity with migration automation tools, GitHub CLI. GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEl), repository replication strategies, and validation frameworks