Lead Infrastructure Architect (SC Cleared)

Rate: £614/d - Umbrella only

Applicants MUST hold Active Security Clearance to be eligible for this role

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose / summary

A Lead Infra Architect is required to drive implantation and design across scalable, secure, and robust infrastructure solutions that support end customer delivery of mission critical capabilities:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise-wide infrastructure future state architecture, strategy and roadmap.
• Ensure alignment of infrastructure architecture with the organization's business goals and IT strategy.
• Advise and provide consulting for new technologies to improve infrastructure capabilities and efficiency.
• Focus the enterprise architecture effort at the conceptual and logical level, and partner closely with enterprise security and infrastructure teams to translate into physical design.

Key Skills/ requirements

Key responsibilities include:

• Architecture Design - Create and maintain infrastructure blueprints and roadmaps aligned with client objectives and technical requirements.
• Technology Evaluation - Assess and recommend emerging technologies to enhance system performance, scalability, and security.
• Implementation Oversight - Lead infrastructure projects to ensure timely, budget-friendly, and quality completion with the Delivery Architecture Teams
• Collaboration - Integrate closely with development, security, and operations teams for optimal infrastructure performance.
• Documentation - Maintain detailed documentation of designs, configurations, and processes for knowledge sharing and efficiency.
• Performance Tuning - Monitor and improve infrastructure performance by addressing bottlenecks.
• Security - Design and implement infrastructure with strong security practices and compliance.
• Disaster Recovery - Develop and maintain plans for disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Vendor Management - Oversee third-party vendors to ensure high-quality, cost-effective solutions.
• Governance - Present your designs to through governance boards both to technical and non-technical board members

• Extensive experience in infrastructure architecture with a strong focus on Physical Data Centre implementations, Data Comms Rooms setup and management
• Azure Cloud environments - Azure SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, SAML, SCIM, PKI
• Demonstrated ability in designing and implementing modern workplace and EUC solutions, including Microsoft 365 and Azure Entra ID
• Proven understanding of VMWARE, servers, storage, and data centre modernization
• Familiarity with IT security principles, architecture best practices, TOGAF framework, and Enterprise Architecture standards
• Leadership experience and proficiency in Project Management or Agile delivery practices (SCRUM / KANBAN)
• Experience in infrastructure and application monitoring technologies (Logic Mon and Dynatrace) would be beneficial
• Ability to rapidly understand the business, commercial and technical requirements to write clear and concise technical designs is vital
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills are essential. Must be able to lead workshops and reduce complex ideas to simple terms and express rationale for decision making to both a technical and non-technical audience
• Experience with complex projects and programmes, requiring highly available, disaster recovery and business continuity compliant systems in a large enterprise

This is not a hands-on engineering role, but a technical understanding and functional experience in any three of these areas is desirable:

• Azure Cloud technologies
• Microsoft Enterprise product suite including VDI solution
• Network solutions
• Server infrastructure including Windows and Linux operating systems
• Databases platforms - Oracle, IBM, AzureDB
• Software Defined Data Centre - Virtualisation
• Storage, Hyper-converged, Converged Infrastructure Solutions
• Backup/Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications, we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!