Robert Walters
Infrastructure Architect - Banking
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Job Title: Infrastructure Architect
A leading international financial services organisation is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to join its Architecture team. This is a strategic role responsible for shaping infrastructure architecture across the organisation, ensuring technology solutions align with business objectives, enterprise standards, and long-term technology strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide architectural leadership across infrastructure technologies, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and business strategy.
- Review and govern infrastructure projects, ensuring designs adhere to architectural standards, security requirements, and technology policies.
- Develop high-level infrastructure solution designs that are suitable for technical approval and implementation.
- Partner with engineering, delivery, and business teams to understand requirements and translate these into scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Drive the development and adoption of infrastructure standards, design patterns, and best practices across the organisation.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to technology selection and strategic roadmaps.
- Collaborate with technical leads and vendors to define future infrastructure capabilities and long-term technology direction.
- Produce high-quality architecture documentation, standards, and design artefacts to support governance and project delivery.
- Provide guidance to regional and global technology teams to ensure consistent implementation of infrastructure standards.
- Challenge existing designs where appropriate to promote modern, resilient, and fit-for-purpose infrastructure solutions.
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Skills & Experience
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect within a financial services or similarly regulated environment.
- Broad knowledge across enterprise infrastructure technologies and architecture principles.
- Experience defining infrastructure strategies, standards, and governance processes.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure design, technology risk, and solution assurance.
- Experience working closely with engineering, delivery, and business stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience producing architecture documentation, solution designs, and technical standards.
- TOGAF certification or similar architecture qualification is highly desirable.
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Personal Attributes
- Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- Self-motivated with a proactive, delivery-focused mindset.
- Comfortable working within complex enterprise environments.
- Able to influence stakeholders and build consensus across technical teams.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to work independently when required.
- Capable of balancing strategic thinking with practical delivery.
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