Infrastructure Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• We require SC and NPPV3 clearance.
• We require experience as an Infrastructure Architect within complex enterprise environments.
• We require experience working on large-scale business or organisational transformation programmes.
• We require a strong understanding of cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• We require experience developing migration and transformation roadmaps.
• We require experience with infrastructure consolidation and platform rationalisation.
• We require a strong understanding of resiliency, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity principles.
• We require the ability to evaluate technical solutions against business requirements and strategic objectives.
• We require the role to be PAYE through an umbrella company.

Responsibilities:

• We will develop and maintain the infrastructure architecture strategy supporting the target operating model.
• We will define the future-state infrastructure landscape across cloud, hosting, networking, end-user computing, identity, storage, and platform services.
• We will ensure infrastructure architecture aligns with enterprise architecture principles, business objectives, and transformation outcomes.
• We will work with programme teams to support the integration of multiple organisations into the target environment.
• We will assess current-state infrastructure environments and identify opportunities for consolidation and optimisation.
• We will produce high-level and detailed infrastructure designs.
• We will define infrastructure standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• We will review and assure solution designs, suppliers, and technical partners.
• We will ensure architecture designs meet security, availability, performance, resilience, and operational requirements.
• We will ensure business continuity and operational stability throughout transformation delivery.
• We will define architectural requirements for hosting, connectivity, and workplace technology.
• We will ensure technical designs support service integration and operational readiness requirements.
• We will define cloud adoption strategies and migration approaches where appropriate.
• We will identify opportunities to modernise legacy infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
• We will promote infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native design principles.
• We will ensure architectural compliance with security policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• We will collaborate with cyber teams to embed secure-by-design principles.
• We will support risk assessments and architectural reviews.
• We will ensure infrastructure solutions meet resilience, disaster recovery, backup, and continuity requirements.
• We will work with business stakeholders, technical teams, suppliers, and service providers.
• We will translate complex technical concepts into understandable business language.
• We will facilitate workshops and design sessions with architecture and delivery teams.
• We will support decision-making through clear architectural recommendations and assessments.
• We will collaborate with infrastructure suppliers, cloud providers, and technology partners.
• We will ensure third-party solutions align with strategic architecture principles.
• We will support technical governance across multi-vendor delivery environments.
• We will manage architecture dependencies relating to supplier-delivered services.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Support
• Security

More:

We are supporting a major organisational transformation programme that is bringing multiple organisations, business units, and end-user communities together into a unified target operating model. This is a remote role with very rare travel to London and Manchester. The contract runs until 30/06/2027, with a rate of £500 to £580. We are looking for an Infrastructure Architect to help define, design, and assure the future-state infrastructure architecture for consolidated services, platforms, and ways of working, ensuring the environment is scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to the programmes strategic vision.

last updated 32 week of 2026