OpenShift Technical Lead

Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong, hands-on VMware vSphere experience within enterprise environments.
• Strong, hands-on Red Hat OpenShift experience.
• Previous experience leading technology migrations or platform modernisation programmes.
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage with senior engineers, architects and leadership.
• A track record of owning technical outcomes and driving delivery.
• Strong technical judgement and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to work independently and take ownership.
• Desirable: Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Desirable: Platform engineering.
• Desirable: Enterprise compute / x86 infrastructure.
• Desirable: Networking and infrastructure architecture.
• Desirable: Storage platforms and data services.
• Desirable: Infrastructure architecture across compute, storage and networking.
• Desirable: Large-scale migration or transformation programmes.
• Desirable: Operational resilience.
• Desirable: Financial services or other highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of a defined technology domain or migration workstream.
• Provide technical direction and make key technical decisions.
• Drive migration and platform modernisation activities through to delivery.
• Work closely with engineering, architecture, operations and programme teams.
• Identify and remove technical blockers, risks and dependencies.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership where required.
• Represent our workstream in technical reviews, governance and leadership forums.
• Work with senior stakeholders and communicate technical challenges, progress and recommendations.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, governance and strategic objectives.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Cloud
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• VMware

More:

We are supporting a large-scale enterprise migration and platform modernisation programme for a leading global financial services organisation. This is a senior, hands-on role based in Sheffield with a hybrid working arrangement, offered as an initial 36-month contract inside IR35. The role sits within a delivery-focused environment where we work across engineering, architecture, infrastructure and programme teams to resolve complex technical challenges, manage dependencies and keep the migration programme moving. The ideal background includes Senior Technical Architect, Technical Lead, Principal Consultant or Engineering Lead experience, with the ability to operate at both strategic and technical levels while engaging senior stakeholders and navigating ambiguity in a complex stakeholder environment.

last updated 37 week of 2026