Infrastructure Solution Architect - FTC

Infrastructure Solution Architect - FTC

6-month initial FTC - likely to extend for 12/18 months as a long term programme

Circa £100,000 per annum (pro rated)

Hybrid - predominantly remote but with occasional visits to London for workshops and key meetings

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join a major infrastructure, resilience and technology uplift programme within a large-scale enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide solution architecture across multiple infrastructure and resilience programmes, including infrastructure tooling, backup/recovery and BCDR
• Assess solutions at an ecosystem and service level, considering dependencies across compute, storage, network, DNS, NTP, authentication and application infrastructure
• Support the assessment of existing services and their resilience, recoverability and criticality
• Help define and validate RTO/RPO, service criticality, recovery dependencies and resilience requirements
• Feed architectural findings into a wider BCDR framework and service-tiering model
• Review current-state architecture and identify technical dependencies, risks, gaps and remediation requirements
• Work across a large, complex infrastructure estate where current-state documentation and asset information may be incomplete
• Support adjacent infrastructure and transformation initiatives as priorities evolve
• Work closely with Technical Delivery Managers, engineering teams, third parties and senior technology stakeholders
• Produce clear architecture designs, recommendations and supporting documentation
• Ensure solutions consider operational supportability and recoverability alongside functional requirements

Required Experience: We are particularly interested in candidates with:

• Strong experience as a Solution Architect, Infrastructure Architect or Technical Architect within large enterprise environments
• Broad infrastructure knowledge spanning several of:
• Compute/server infrastructure
• Storage
• Networking
• Backup and recovery
• Disaster recovery/BCDR
• DNS/NTP
• Identity and authentication
• Infrastructure management and monitoring tooling
• Application and service resilience
• Experience working on infrastructure transformation, resilience, remediation or technology uplift programmes
• Strong understanding of technical dependencies across complex enterprise services
• Experience assessing existing environments and translating findings into pragmatic architectural recommendations
• Ability to operate independently and work effectively where documentation or current-state information is incomplete
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work directly with technical SMEs, delivery teams and programme leadership