Technical Lead

Lorien; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 92,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is supporting a major UK financial services organisation with an Infrastructure Technical Lead role. You will guide enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, and operational support, setting technical standards and governance across multiple teams.

This hands-on leadership position involves overseeing project delivery, resolving complex issues, and driving automation, resilience and security-aligned infrastructure modernization.

Qualifications

• Strong experience leading infrastructure teams and delivering complex platforms.
• deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Ability to align technical strategy with security and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, cloud and platform services.
• Lead design, implementation and continual improvement of enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Own governance, engineering standards and best practices.
• Support infrastructure transformation and modernisation initiatives.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, engineering and operations teams.
• Drive automation, resilience, availability and performance of core platforms.
• Lead incident resolution for complex technical issues and major incidents.
• Mentor infrastructure engineers and act as a technical authority.
• Ensure solutions comply with security and regulatory requirements.
• Assist capacity planning, lifecycle management and roadmap development.

Skills

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Regulated environment experience

Tools

Windows Server

VMware

Active Directory

DNS/DHCP

Storage & backups

Azure

AWS

Hybrid cloud

Job description

Rate: Competitive Market Rate Inside IR35

The Opportunity

We're supporting a major UK financial services organisation undergoing significant infrastructure modernisation and operational resilience initiatives. As part of a high-performing technology function, we're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across enterprise infrastructure, platform services, cloud technologies, and operational support teams.

This is a hands‑on leadership role where you'll be responsible for guiding infrastructure strategy, driving technical standards, overseeing critical project delivery, and acting as a key escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, cloud and platform services.


• Lead the design, implementation, and continual improvement of enterprise infrastructure solutions.


• Own technical governance, engineering standards, and best practices.


• Support infrastructure transformation and modernisation initiatives.


• Collaborate closely with architecture, security, engineering, and operational teams.


• Drive automation, resilience, availability and performance improvements across core platforms.


• Lead incident resolution for complex technical issues and major incidents.


• Mentor and support infrastructure engineers, acting as a technical authority within the team.


• Ensure infrastructure solutions align with security, regulatory and compliance requirements.


• Support capacity planning, lifecycle management and technical roadmap development.


• Strong experience in a Technical Lead, Infrastructure Lead, or Senior Infrastructure Engineer position.


• Deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure environments.


• Strong experience across:


• Windows Server


• Virtualisation technologies (VMware preferred)


• Active Directory


• DNS, DHCP and networking fundamentals


• Enterprise storage and backup technologies


• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or hybrid environments)


• Experience delivering infrastructure change and transformation projects.


• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.


• Ability to provide technical leadership across multiple workstreams.


• Experience operating within large, complex, regulated organisations.

Any experience in the following would be highly advantageous:

• Firewall technologies (Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco ASA or similar)


• CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM)


• Enterprise security tooling


• Identity and Access Management


• Infrastructure automation and scripting


• Financial services or regulated industry experience

What's on Offer?

• Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential.


• Opportunity to work within a large-scale enterprise technology environment.


• Exposure to complex infrastructure, cloud and security programmes.


• Collaborative team with significant investment in technology transformation.