Infrastructure Lead – Cloud & Networking

emagine Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

emagine Group is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Lead to drive cloud and networking architecture for a major Core Banking Transformation Programme. You will lead Azure cloud design, network modernization, and regulatory compliance across the UK and US teams, delivering resilient, secure, scalable infrastructure.

This senior role requires hands-on technical leadership and deep Azure Networking expertise, balancing strategic thinking with delivery in a highly regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• Proven track record leading complex cloud migration and infrastructure transformation programmes.
• Strong expertise across Azure Networking, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity, and Network Security.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and configuration of the Azure cloud environment for the transformation programme.
• Assess and remediate the current fragmented network landscape across environments.
• Design robust network architectures including HA, DR, and failover capabilities.
• Drive multi-cloud strategy, architecture, and operational implications.
• Migrate infrastructure from US-hosted setup to a modern cloud-based architecture.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud networking and infrastructure transformation.

Skills

Azure Networking

Hybrid Cloud Connectivity

Network Security

Virtual WAN

ExpressRoute

IAM - Identity and Access Management

Enterprise network design

Regulated environment experience

Stakeholder management

Hands-on leadership

Tools

Azure

Job description

Infrastructure Lead - Cloud & Networking

£650-700pd Inside IR35

Initial 6 months

3 days on site

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Lead to play a pivotal role in a major Core Banking Transformation Programme, driving the migration from legacy infrastructure to a modern, cloud-based platform built on Microsoft Azure.

This is a senior leadership position responsible for defining and delivering the cloud and network strategy that will underpin the future state banking platform. You will be instrumental in improving operational efficiency, reducing legacy technology risk, and enabling the adoption of modern technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, across core banking functions.

Working closely with stakeholders across the UK and US, you will lead infrastructure design, cloud migration, network transformation, and operational resilience initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and configuration of the Azure cloud environment supporting the bank's transformation programme.
• Assess and remediate the current fragmented network landscape, consolidating and simplifying connectivity across multiple environments.
• Resolve existing connectivity and integration challenges between Banking and Securities platforms.
• Design and implement robust network architectures, including:
• Availability Zones
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery
• Failover capabilities
• Resilience and business continuity frameworks
• Evaluate and provide recommendations on multi-cloud strategy, architecture, and operational implications.
• Drive the migration from the existing US-hosted infrastructure to a modern cloud-based architecture.
• Partner closely with US technology teams to ensure alignment with global architectural standards and existing implementations.
• Ensure all infrastructure solutions meet regulatory, security, and operational resilience requirements, including PRA expectations.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud networking, infrastructure architecture, and transformation initiatives.
• Support the wider technology modernisation agenda, helping minimise disruption while delivering strategic change.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions.
• Proven track record leading complex cloud migration and infrastructure transformation programmes.
• Strong expertise across:
• Azure Networking
• Hybrid Cloud Connectivity
• Network Security
• Virtual WAN
• ExpressRoute
• Identity and Access Management
• Deep understanding of enterprise network architecture, connectivity, and large-scale network transformation.
• Experience operating within highly regulated environments, ideally banking or financial services.
• Knowledge of infrastructure resilience, disaster recovery, and operational continuity frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating across international teams.
• Ability to lead technical strategy while remaining hands-on when needed.

Desirable Experience

• Experience assessing or operating within multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Understanding of AI technologies and their application within banking transformation programmes.
• Experience leveraging AI for reverse engineering, application discovery, or modernisation initiatives.
• Knowledge of PRA, FCA, operational resilience, and cloud regulatory requirements within financial services.
• Experience supporting core banking platform transformation programmes.

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

"emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin"