Solution Architect (Infrastructure)

Solution Architect (Infrastructure)

London - Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)

£100,000 - £110,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus

A leading financial services organisation is seeking an experienced Solution Architect (Infrastructure) to play a key role in shaping, modernising, and evolving their global technology estate. This is a high-impact position for someone who combines deep infrastructure and strong architectural expertise across AWS cloud, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.

As part of a high-performing architecture function, you'll define and deliver high-level and low-level designs, drive infrastructure strategy, and ensure platforms remain secure, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards. You'll work closely with engineering, operations, security, and other architecture disciplines to deliver robust, future-ready solutions.

The organisation is pleased to offer the role on a hybrid basis with 2 days per week in their Canary Wharf office, therefore you must be within a reasonable commute of London.

Responsibilities:

• High-level design and conceptual architecture creation for major infrastructure initiatives.
• Produce detailed low-level designs, blueprints, and best-practice documentation.
• Architect and deliver solutions across AWS cloud, data centre, hosting, and hybrid environments.
• Act as lead architect on strategic programmes, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and security standards.
• Contribute to infrastructure strategy, product roadmaps, and reference architectures.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and governance across engineering and operations teams.
• Identify opportunities for optimisation, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Stay current with emerging cloud capabilities, tooling, and architectural best practices.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience architecting complex infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• Strong background in AWS platforms, cloud-native services, and hybrid cloud design.
• Broad knowledge across networks, security, compute, storage, and virtualisation.
• Hands-on experience with automation tooling such as Jenkins and Ansible.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, ideally with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience working with Windows, Linux, and database technologies.
• Ability to assess, recommend, and integrate third-party tools and services.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Industry certifications (eg, TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect) highly desirable.