Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect

Location: Remote (occasional travel to client site)
Rate: £550-£570 per day (Inside IR35)
Clearance Required: Active SC Clearance & NPPV3
Nationality Requirement: Sole UK National

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.

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