Infrastructure Architect

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Architect looking to take ownership of a strategic infrastructure roadmap in a data-driven environment?
 
This is your chance to shape the future hosting strategy and influence key cloud, security, and performance decisions.
 
Why apply?

Enterprise-wide impact - be a key figure in shaping cloud and infrastructure strategy across multiple business streams.
Cloud-first approach - lead Azure-based infrastructure transformation and optimise scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
Data-intensive focus - architect solutions to handle millions of records efficiently, ensuring high availability and performance.
Cross-functional collaboration - work closely with business architects, application architects, and data specialists to align infrastructure with organisational goals. What you’ll be doing:

Designing scalable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure that supports large-scale data processing.
Defining the hosting strategy - guiding decisions on SaaS, on-prem, and hybrid cloud solutions.
Collaborating with third-parties to ensure robust, secure infrastructure governance.
Optimising infrastructure costs - working towards a single Azure tenancy and minimising data movement expenses.
Ensuring compliance with security standards and managing infrastructure governance documentation.
Leading disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
Influencing architecture strategy - contributing to technical review boards and questioning key infrastructure decisions. What we’re looking for:

3+ years experience working within Architectural setting
Strong Infrastructure Architecture experience, ideally within a data-heavy or regulated environment (e.g. finance, utilities, insurance).
Azure expertise - experience designing cloud solutions for high-availability, security, and cost efficiency.
Knowledge of TOGAF (certification is a plus, but not essential) - ability to apply enterprise architecture principles in practice.
Experience working with third-party service providers, ensuring security and governance standards are met.
Strong ability to challenge technical decisions, create strategic roadmaps, and influence stakeholders.
Understanding of identity management, single sign-on, and infrastructure governance.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is desirable. * The successful candidate may have come from a Cloud specialist role or Infrastructure Manager role, wanting to focus more on the architecture and strategy side of their role. * 

Benefits package:

£55,000 - £60,000 salary, depending on experience
Up to 12% pension contribution
Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) & health cashback plan
Enhanced annual leave (28 days + bank holidays, plus buy/sell options)
Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Discretionary bonus up to 10%
Flexible hybrid working – 1 day per week in Solihull We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
  
We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters