Infrastructure Architect
Description
Hybrid WORKING
Location: Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Contract
We're supporting a leading global technology consultancy in the search for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to join a major enterprise transformation programme within the financial services sector.
This is a strategic architecture position where you'll help shape the future direction of a complex technology estate, working across infrastructure, cloud and platform services. You'll provide technical leadership, influence enterprise-wide technology decisions and ensure infrastructure solutions are secure, scalable and aligned with long-term business goals.
Working alongside senior architects, engineering teams and technology stakeholders, you'll play a key role in driving infrastructure strategy while providing governance and architectural oversight across multiple initiatives.
The Role
You'll be responsible for:
- Defining enterprise infrastructure architecture and long-term technology direction.
- Providing architectural governance across large-scale infrastructure and transformation programmes.
- Reviewing technical solutions to ensure they meet security, resilience, performance and operational standards.
- Developing infrastructure standards, architecture principles and technology roadmaps.
- Working closely with business and technical stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into practical technology solutions.
- Identifying opportunities to modernise legacy platforms and improve enterprise capabilities.
- Supporting engineering and delivery teams with technical guidance throughout project lifecycles.
- Producing architecture documentation and presenting recommendations to governance boards and senior stakeholders.
- Evaluating emerging technologies and contributing to future technology strategy.
You'll bring:
- Significant experience in an Infrastructure Architect or similar enterprise architecture role.
- A strong background within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
- Broad technical knowledge covering cloud platforms, networking, compute, storage, security, identity and enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience creating architecture standards, governance processes and strategic technology roadmaps.
- A solid understanding of infrastructure modernisation, enterprise architecture and technology risk.
- The ability to communicate confidently with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders.
- Experience reviewing and approving technical designs across large-scale programmes.
- TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification is advantageous.