Senior Infrastructure Architect: Hybrid Cloud & DC

Nicoll Curtin; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Data centre

Hybrid cloud

VDI/EUC

VMware

Azure

Networking

Stakeholder management

Tools

Citrix

VMware Horizon

Azure Virtual Desktop

Job description

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.