The Opportunity
We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to join a major business transformation programme focused on delivering a unified target operating model across multiple organisations, systems, and user communities.
This is a high-impact role where you'll define and shape the future infrastructure landscape, ensuring platforms and services are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to strategic business objectives.
Working within a multidisciplinary transformation team, you'll play a key role in infrastructure consolidation, cloud adoption, and modernisation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the target-state infrastructure architecture and roadmap.
- Define future infrastructure capabilities across:
- Cloud platforms
- Hosting and compute
- Networking
- Identity and access management
- Storage
- End-user computing
- Platform services
- Assess existing infrastructure environments and identify opportunities for consolidation and optimisation.
- Produce high-level and detailed infrastructure designs.
- Define infrastructure standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Provide architecture assurance across internal teams, suppliers, and technical partners.
- Support cloud adoption, migration, and infrastructure modernisation programmes.
- Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and cloud-native design principles.
- Ensure solutions meet security, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational requirements.
- Facilitate architecture workshops and support key technical decision-making.
- Engage with suppliers and technology partners to ensure alignment with strategic architecture objectives.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect within complex enterprise environments.
- Experience delivering architecture on large-scale transformation or organisational change programmes.
- Strong knowledge of cloud technologies, including:
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience developing migration, transformation, and consolidation roadmaps.
- Strong understanding of:
- Infrastructure modernisation
- Platform rationalisation
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Business Continuity
- Experience designing secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions.
- Ability to balance technical requirements with business outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
What We're Looking For
You'll be a strategic thinker with strong technical credibility, capable of influencing stakeholders across business and technology teams.
You'll have experience shaping enterprise infrastructure landscapes and delivering architecture that supports complex transformation programmes.