At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and assure future-state infrastructure architecture for a major transformation programme.
- Company: Join a leading organisation focused on innovative infrastructure solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, remote work flexibility, and long-term contract until 2027.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a significant impact on organisational transformation while working with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect and strong knowledge of cloud technologies.
Location: Remote (98% remote with very occasional travel to London or Manchester)
Rate: £600 per day
Duration: Contract until 30th June 2027
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We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to join a major organisational transformation programme focused on bringing multiple organisations, business units, and user communities together under a unified Target Operating Model (TOM). Working as part of a multi-disciplinary transformation team, you will be responsible for defining, designing, and assuring the future-state infrastructure architecture that underpins consolidated services, platforms, and operating models. This role requires a strong blend of strategic architecture expertise, transformation experience, and stakeholder engagement skills to ensure infrastructure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to long-term business objectives.
- Infrastructure Architecture Strategy
- Develop and maintain the infrastructure architecture strategy supporting the Target Operating Model.
- Define the future-state infrastructure landscape across cloud, hosting, networking, end-user computing, identity, storage, and platform services.
- Ensure infrastructure architecture aligns with enterprise architecture principles, business objectives, and programme outcomes.
- Provide strategic architectural guidance throughout the transformation lifecycle.
- Transformation & Migration Support
- Work closely with programme teams to support the integration of multiple organisations into the target environment.
- Assess current-state infrastructure landscapes and identify opportunities for consolidation, optimisation, and standardisation.
- Support infrastructure transformation planning and migration activities.
- Ensure business continuity and operational stability throughout transition and implementation phases.
- Solution Design & Assurance
- Produce high-level and detailed infrastructure designs.
- Develop infrastructure standards, architectural patterns, and reference architectures.
- Review and assure solution designs delivered by internal teams, suppliers, and technical partners.
- Ensure designs meet security, availability, resilience, performance, and operational support requirements.
- Provide architecture governance and technical assurance across the programme.
- Platform & Service Alignment
- Define architectural requirements for hosting, connectivity, workplace technology, and platform services.
- Ensure infrastructure services support future operational and service management requirements.
- Align infrastructure architecture with service integration and operational readiness objectives.
- Support the successful adoption of shared platforms and infrastructure services.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Modernisation
- Define cloud adoption strategies and migration approaches where appropriate.
- Identify opportunities to modernise legacy infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
- Promote infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native design principles.
- Support the development of scalable and future-ready infrastructure capabilities.
- Security, Resilience & Compliance
- Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with security standards, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Work closely with cyber security teams to embed secure-by-design principles.
- Support risk assessments, architecture reviews, and technical governance activities.
- Ensure solutions meet resilience, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and high-availability requirements.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, service providers, and programme leadership.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear and understandable business language.
- Facilitate design workshops, architecture reviews, and stakeholder discussions.
- Support informed decision-making through robust architectural recommendations and assessments.
- Supplier & Partner Management
- Work closely with cloud providers, infrastructure suppliers, and technology partners.
- Ensure third-party solutions align with strategic architecture principles and target-state designs.
- Support technical governance across complex multi-vendor environments.
- Manage architecture dependencies associated with supplier-delivered services.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience working as an Infrastructure Architect within complex enterprise environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale business or organisational transformation programmes.
- Strong knowledge of cloud technologies, including Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience developing migration strategies, transformation roadmaps, and target-state architectures.
- Experience with infrastructure consolidation, platform rationalisation, and service modernisation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, backup, and business continuity principles.
- Ability to assess technical solutions against business requirements and strategic objectives.
- Strong architecture governance, documentation, and design assurance experience.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience working across multiple technical disciplines, including infrastructure, networking, cloud, identity, and workplace technologies.
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