Infrastructure Architect

Noir; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Noir is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead technology strategy and architecture within a sophisticated financial services setting in London. You will shape infrastructure direction, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure secure, scalable, and fit-for-purpose solutions.

The role focuses on governance, standards, and architecture principles across a geographically distributed estate, with hybrid working in London. Applicants must have right to work in the UK.

Qualifications

• TOGAF knowledge and architecture governance experience.
• Strong background in infrastructure design and risk management.
• Proven ability to develop and communicate technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a broad technology estate in a financial services environment.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, enterprise architecture and business teams to translate drivers into robust strategies and solutions.
• Ensure governance, standards and architectural principles guide technology changes, projects and releases.
• Develop standards, design patterns and roadmaps; evaluate new technologies and drive adoption.
• Translate complex concepts into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Drive consistency, standardisation and continuous improvement across the infrastructure estate.

Skills

TOGAF

Infrastructure design

Governance

Risk management

Technology roadmaps

Cloud & on-premise

Enterprise architecture

Technology strategy

Job description

(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

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.