Infrastructure Architect
🚀 Infrastructure Architect
Location: South west England (2-days per week)
Day Rate: £800–£900 (Inside IR35)
Duration: Initial 6 months (long-term programme)
We’re supporting a major transformation programme within a leading financial services organisation, seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to play a key role in shaping resilient, future-ready platforms.
This is a high-impact position within a multi-year (2-year) transformation programme, initially offered as a 6-month contract, with strong likelihood of extension.
🔍 The Role
As an Infrastructure Architect, you’ll take ownership of critical initiatives focused on:
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery strategy
- Platform resilience and transformation across cloud environments
- Driving architectural standards across complex systems
- Collaborating with application owners to define and improve service resilience
You’ll operate at a senior level, helping steer architectural direction while engaging both technical and business stakeholders.
🧰 Tech Environment
- AWS (primary cloud platform)
- Snowflake
- ETL tools and data platforms
- AWS native services (including resilience tooling such as AWS Resilience Hub)
- Exposure to Azure environments
✅ What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience as a Lead or Senior Infrastructure Architect
- Strong infrastructure background (not software-led)
- Deep expertise in AWS architecture & resilience
- Solid working knowledge of Azure
- Experience within financial services
- Ability to define, drive, and communicate architectural standards
Certifications required:
- TOGAF
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- AWS DevOps (Professional level)
⭐ Nice to Have
- Experience with Snowflake and modern data platforms
- Exposure to value stream models (especially platform-led environments)
- Comfortable leading stakeholder engagement across technical and non-technical teams