Infrastructure Architect

Nicoll Curtin; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 140 000 - 175 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Nicoll Curtin is partnering with a leading financial services organisation to appoint a Director / Executive Director, Infrastructure Architect in London. The role combines strategic architecture leadership with hands-on delivery across data centres, hybrid cloud, and end-user computing.

The candidate will drive target-state architecture, oversee migration and decommissioning of data centres, and advance VDI/EUC modernisation while optimizing costs and resilience.

Qualificações

• Senior Infrastructure Architect with enterprise-scale experience.
• Strong Financial Services sector background preferred (banking/capital markets).
• Proven delivery of data centre migration/consolidation projects.

Responsabilidades

• Define target-state infrastructure architecture across data centres, cloud and end-user computing.
• Lead data centre consolidation, migration and decommissioning initiatives.
• Drive VDI/EUC rationalisation and modernisation across platforms.
• Develop workload placement strategies across on-prem, colocation and cloud.
• Define infrastructure principles, standards and roadmaps across multiple years.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs and tech debt while improving resilience.
• Ensure security, reliability and recoverability are embedded in designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (infrastructure, cloud, security, EA).
• Support AI adoption with infrastructure and platform capabilities.

Conhecimentos

Infrastructure architecture

Data centre

Hybrid cloud

VDI/EUC

VMware

Azure

Networking

Stakeholder management

Ferramentas

Citrix

VMware Horizon

Azure Virtual Desktop

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Director / Executive Director, Infrastructure Architect

London, Hybrid, 3 days per week on-site
£140,000 to £175,000 base + variable bonus

A leading financial services organisation is looking for a senior Infrastructure Architect to help define and drive the target-state architecture for its enterprise infrastructure estate.

This is a senior transformation role with a major focus on data centre consolidation and exit, VDI/EUC rationalisation, hybrid cloud architecture, resilience and infrastructure cost optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target-state infrastructure architecture across data centres, cloud and end-user computing.
• Lead architecture for data centre consolidation, migration and decommissioning.
• Drive VDI/EUC rationalisation and modernisation.
• Develop workload placement strategies across on-premises, colocation and cloud.
• Define infrastructure principles, standards, reference architectures and multi-year roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the estate, reduce technical debt and optimise infrastructure costs.
• Ensure resilience, scalability, security and operational recoverability are embedded into designs.
• Work across infrastructure engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and business stakeholders.
• Support the organisation's adoption of AI, including the infrastructure and platform capabilities required to enable AI workloads securely.

Experience

• Significant experience as an Infrastructure Architect within a large enterprise environment.
• Strong Financial Services experience, ideally banking, capital markets or investment banking.
• Proven delivery of major data centre migration, consolidation or exit programmes.
• Strong knowledge across VMware/virtualisation, compute, storage, networking, backup and DR.
• Experience with VDI/EUC platforms, such as Citrix, VMware Horizon or Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Strong hybrid-cloud experience across Azure, AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience developing infrastructure strategy, standards, governance and target-state roadmaps.
• Strong senior stakeholder management and ability to influence engineering direction.
• Exposure to AI-related infrastructure, platforms or enterprise AI adoption would be highly relevant.