Infrastructure Architect

£885 GBP
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.

About You
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.

If you think you're a fit for the role, feel free to get in contact.