Infrastructure Solution Architect - FTC

Infrastructure Solution Architect - FTC
6-month initial FTC - likely to extend for 12/18 months as a long term programme
Circa £100,000 per annum (pro rated)
Hybrid - predominantly remote but with occasional visits to London for workshops and key meetings

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join a major infrastructure, resilience and technology uplift programme within a large-scale enterprise environment.

Sitting across several strategic workstreams, you will provide the architectural glue between infrastructure tooling, backup and business continuity/disaster recovery initiatives. This is a broad infrastructure architecture role rather than a narrow technology SME position, requiring someone comfortable working across complex and imperfectly documented estates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide solution architecture across multiple infrastructure and resilience programmes, including infrastructure tooling, backup/recovery and BCDR

• Assess solutions at an ecosystem and service level, considering dependencies across compute, storage, network, DNS, NTP, authentication and application infrastructure

• Support the assessment of existing services and their resilience, recoverability and criticality

• Help define and validate RTO/RPO, service criticality, recovery dependencies and resilience requirements

• Feed architectural findings into a wider BCDR framework and service-tiering model

• Review current-state architecture and identify technical dependencies, risks, gaps and remediation requirements

• Work across a large, complex infrastructure estate where current-state documentation and asset information may be incomplete

• Support adjacent infrastructure and transformation initiatives as priorities evolve

• Work closely with Technical Delivery Managers, engineering teams, third parties and senior technology stakeholders

• Produce clear architecture designs, recommendations and supporting documentation

• Ensure solutions consider operational supportability and recoverability alongside functional requirements

Required Experience:

We are particularly interested in candidates with:

• Strong experience as a Solution Architect, Infrastructure Architect or Technical Architect within large enterprise environments

• Broad infrastructure knowledge spanning several of:

  • Compute/server infrastructure

  • Storage

  • Networking

  • Backup and recovery

  • Disaster recovery/BCDR

  • DNS/NTP

  • Identity and authentication

  • Infrastructure management and monitoring tooling

  • Application and service resilience

• Experience working on infrastructure transformation, resilience, remediation or technology uplift programmes

• Strong understanding of technical dependencies across complex enterprise services

• Experience assessing existing environments and translating findings into pragmatic architectural recommendations

• Ability to operate independently and work effectively where documentation or current-state information is incomplete

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work directly with technical SMEs, delivery teams and programme leadership