Infrastructure Architect

Johnson Matthey; Billingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sustainable technology leader seeks an Infrastructure Architect to shape and lead the global infrastructure strategy. You'll guide cloud, database, and data center initiatives, ensuring they meet transformation goals and technical governance. This role requires a strong technical background, experience in IT security, and stakeholder management skills. Join the team to contribute to sustainable technologies while advancing your career in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Retirement savings

Share plans

Life and disability insurance

Commuter allowances

Medical plans

Fitness discounts

Qualifications

• Experience with virtualization, cloud (Azure), SQL/Oracle databases, and IT security.
• Ability to lead projects and manage diverse stakeholder relationships.
• Familiarity with technical governance and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead creation and execution of global cloud and database strategies.
• Drive continuous improvement and maintain a capability-level view.
• Produce key architecture artefacts and govern architecture compliance.
• Facilitate technical discussions and promote reusable assets.

Skills

Strong technical foundation (5–10 years)

Broad infrastructure expertise (virtualization, compute, storage, cloud, databases)

IT security knowledge

Technical leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Understanding of OT environments

Job description

Infrastructure Architect

Location: Global

World-changing careers, enabled by Johnson Matthey.

With over 200 years of history, join us and help accelerate the transition to net zero.

As an Infrastructure Architect, you will shape the global infrastructure and operations strategy while leading long‑term roadmaps across cloud, database, and data center capabilities. This role ensures every domain aligns with the global IT vision, maximizes reuse and interoperability, and delivers measurable business outcomes.

Your work will directly support JM’s mission as a global leader in sustainable technologies, helping to transform energy systems and reduce carbon emissions to create a cleaner, brighter future.

Role

As Infrastructure Architect, you will help drive our goals by:

• Leads the creation and execution of global cloud, database, and data center strategies aligned to transformation and cost‑optimization goals.
• Drives continuous improvement using options analysis to prioritize work based on value, relevance, and future‑fit across the estate.
• Maintains a capability‑level view to identify overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for consolidation, innovation, and simplification.
• Produces and maintains key architecture artefacts (e.g., As‑Is views, roadmaps, target/reference architectures, HLDs) and represents architecture in governance forums.
• Ensures compliance with technical governance, data security, and regulatory requirements, conducting risk analysis and defining mitigation strategies.
• Acts as a trusted advisor, facilitating technical discussions, clearly communicating architectures, and promoting reusable architecture assets across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Key skills that will help you succeed in this role

• Strong technical foundation (5–10 years) with readiness to step into a first architecture role.
• Broad infrastructure expertise across virtualization, compute, storage, cloud (Azure), databases (SQL/Oracle), backup, monitoring, and patching.
• IT security knowledge applicable to infrastructure and solution design.
• Technical leadership experience on programmes and projects.
• Stakeholder management & ability to build consensus across diverse technologies.
• Understanding of OT environments (e.g., ISA‑95, OG‑86, IEC 62443).

What we offer

We make sure salaries are fair, competitive and aligned to individual roles, experience and responsibilities. We are also supportive of hybrid and flexible working and where applicable, offer life, medical and other benefits that support our employees’ financial and physical wellbeing, such as:

• Retirement savings
• Share plans
• Saving accounts
• Life and disability insurance
• Commuter allowances and loans
• Medical plans / health assessments
• Fitness discounts

Ready to make a meaningful impact on your career and the environment? Join us and help shape a sustainable future while advancing your career!

At JM, inclusivity is central to our values. We create an environment where everyone can thrive, embracing diverse perspectives to tackle challenges and ensure all colleagues feel valued and connected.

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