Infrastructure Architect

Noir Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension

Benefits

Job summary

Noir Consulting is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect for a Financial Services client in London. You will own technology strategy and lead architecture across cloud and on-premise infra, ensuring secure, scalable and compliant solutions.

You’ll partner with infrastructure, enterprise architecture and business teams to govern changes, review designs and shape future capabilities across a globally connected financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in infrastructure design and architecture governance.
• Experience leading technology strategy in complex financial services environments.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable, secure infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
• Develop and govern infrastructure standards, roadmaps and design patterns.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, engineering and business teams to align technology with strategy.

Skills

Infrastructure Architecture

Cloud Infrastructure

Enterprise Architecture

Technology Strategy

Governance

Risk Management

IT Standards

Roadmaps

TOGAF

Financial Services

Tools

TOGAF Toolkit

Job description

Infrastructure Architect – Financial Services – London / Hybrid

(Tech stack: Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud & On-Premise Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Infrastructure Design, Architecture Governance, Risk Management, IT Standards, Technology Roadmaps, Financial Services, TOGAF, Infrastructure Architect)

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Architect looking to take ownership of technology strategy and architecture within a sophisticated financial services environment? Do you enjoy working across complex infrastructure landscapes, shaping technical direction and ensuring technology solutions are secure, scalable and fit for purpose? This is an exciting opportunity to join a globally connected financial services organisation where technology plays a critical role in supporting business growth and market operations.

Our client is seeking an Infrastructure Architect to provide architectural leadership across a broad technology estate. You will work closely with infrastructure, engineering, enterprise architecture and business teams to understand technology drivers and translate them into robust infrastructure strategies and solutions. You will play a key role in ensuring technology change, projects and releases follow appropriate governance, standards and architectural principles.

As an Infrastructure Architect, you will provide subject matter expertise across multiple infrastructure domains, supporting the evaluation and adoption of new technologies while developing standards, design patterns and technical roadmaps. You will work with technical leads, senior stakeholders and technology vendors to shape future infrastructure capabilities, while ensuring solutions remain aligned with wider enterprise architecture objectives. Strong experience in infrastructure design, technology governance, risk management and modern IT technologies will be essential.

You will also play an important role in challenging existing approaches and identifying opportunities to improve the organisation’s technology landscape. From reviewing solution designs and architecture artefacts through to supporting regional technology teams, you will help drive consistency, standardisation and continuous improvement across the infrastructure estate. Strong communication skills are essential, as you will need to translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a sophisticated financial services technology environment where you will have genuine influence over infrastructure strategy and architectural direction. You’ll work across a complex, geographically distributed organisation, partnering with senior technology teams and helping shape the technology platforms that underpin critical financial market operations.

Location: London, UK / Hybrid Working

Salary: £130,000 – £160,000 + Bonus + Pension + Benefits

Hybrid Working: 3-days in the offices and 2-days at home.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK as sponsorship is not available.