Senior Solution Architect, Cloud & Infrastructure
15 days ago
London
Senior Solution Architect, Cloud & Infrastructure London | Hybrid Highly competitive base and package We're working with a well-established, globally operating financial services organisation seeking a Senior Solution Architect with a strong background in Cloud & Infrastructure. This is a high profile, hands-on architecture role. This is a high-impact position within a central IT function, responsible for shaping and delivering modern cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions that underpin critical business services across multiple regions. The Opportunity You'll play a key role in designing, implementing and operating secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. The focus is on practical delivery, strong architectural governance, and modern engineering practices rather than theoretical design. While the role sits at senior level, it is explicitly hands-on and delivery-focused. Key Responsibilities: • Design and evolve hybrid and cloud infrastructure architectures aligned to business and regulatory requirements, • Lead implementation of infrastructure platforms (primarily Azure, virtualisation and enterprise networking), • Ensure architecture quality, security, resilience and consistency across global environments, • Champion Everything-as-Code practices across build and run, • Work closely with DevOps, Security and Operations teams to support delivery and BAU, • Own architectural standards, patterns and guardrails, • Optimise cost, performance and vendor relationships, • 5+ years designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid architectures, • Strong expertise in Azure IaaS & PaaS, • Deep understanding of networking, security, storage and DR, • Proven use of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, YAML, testing and automation, • Knowledge of Kubernetes, microservices, serverless and modern platform architectures, • Architecture/diagrams as code (C4, Structurizr, Mermaid, PlantUML), • Secure-by-design and threat modelling experience, • Zero Trust/ZTNA exposure, • Senior, influential role with real ownership, • Complex, multi-region technology landscape, • Long-term strategic impact combined with hands-on delivery