Head of Infrastructure Architecture - Executive Director

My leading Banking client are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking individual to own the infrastructure architecture across end-user compute, data centre estate and cloud, and drive the consolidation of three separate estates into one coherent, cost-managed platform. Responsibilities:

• Define the target-state infrastructure architecture spanning virtual desktop infrastructure, physical and co-located data centres, and public cloud, with a clear placement policy governing what runs where and why.
• Lead the data centre rationalisation programme: workload discovery and dependency mapping, migration wave planning, exit sequencing, and lease/contract alignment.
• Consolidate the VDI and end-user compute estate — rationalise brokers, images, profile management and licensing; define persona-based desktop patterns; set the roadmap from legacy VDI toward a single strategic platform.
• Design cloud landing zones, network topology, identity integration, and hybrid connectivity to support migration at scale without re-platforming the operating model per application.
• Own resilience architecture — disaster recovery tiering, recovery time and point objectives, failover design and testing — aligned to operational resilience and important business service requirements. This is a newly created and high profile role, in a leading Global Bank. A brilliant opportunity! The following skills / experience is essential:
• Strong infrastructure architecture experience in a regulated enterprise environment.
• Background in End user computing, Storage and Cloud.
• Understanding of the Operational Resilience regulatory landscape.
• Hands-on architecture experience across at least one major public cloud, covering landing zone design, networking, identity and migration patterns.
• Good AI understanding
• Previously worked in Banking
• Excellent communication skills Salary: Excellent + bonus + package Level: Executive Director Location: London (good work from home options available) If you are interested in this Head of Infrastructure Architecture - Executive Director position and meet the above requirements please apply immediately.