Senior Infrastructure Architect - Banking - £140,000 - £180,000 + Bonus

Job title: Senior Infrastructure Architect Client: Banking Salary: £140,000-£180,000 + Bonus Location: London Skills: Infrastructure Architecture, TDA, Datacentre Migration / Exit, VDI, Costing The role: My client, and established international in the Banking sector are seeking a very senior (Director / Exec Director level) Infrastructure Architect to join them to work across a broad range of projects, at an enterprise level. Responsibilities:

• Consolidating large scale datacentre architecture onto a new platform
• Owning key aspects of datacentre exit
• Design of new co-located Infrastructure
• Leading datacentre rationalisation projects
• Defining architectural plans for VDI, Colo, Datacentres Cloud
• Consolidating the VDI and EUC estate
• Designing landing zones, network topology, identity and hybrid connectivity
• Establishing Infrastructure standards
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity design
• Building and maintaining an Infrastructure cost model
• Acting as the TDA Skills and experience required:
• Extensive Infrastructure Architecture experience in a large, regulated enterprise
• Previous experience delivery an E2E Datacentre consolidation, migration or exit
• Experience in owning a VDI / EUC estate, including a migration or consolidation project
• Architectural experience within AWS, Azure or GCP, including landing zones, networking, identity and migration
• Able to carry out dependency analysis, including discovery for legacy or undocumented systems
• VDI/EUC – Citrix, AVD, Horizon, 365, Layering, Sizing, Profiles
• Datacentre – Virtualisation, Storage, Hyper/Converged Infrastructure, Colocation, Hosting, Capacity
• Cloud – Azure / AWS Landing Zones, Hybrid Connectivity, Migration
• Networks – Datacentre Fabric, Segmentation, Load Balancing, WAN/SD-WAN/DNS, Firewalls
• Automation – Terraform, Ansible, IaC, Configuration
• Resilience – DR, Backups, BCP Desirable:
• Financial Services experience – market-data or low-latency systems
• Migration of legacy hardware / software – e.g. Mainframe
• FinOps and Cost Governance Personal:
• Ability to influence technical direction and delivery, working across multiple teams
• Delivery focused with a passion for efficiency and DevEx
• Collaborative leader, able to drive technical change and resulting organisational change