Infrastructure / Platform Architect

Our client is a global IT services company.

Job Description:

Our client is committed to building diverse, inclusive teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage interest from women, underrepresented groups, and neurodivergent candidates. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process and are dedicated to creating a supportive, accessible environment for everyone.

Infrastructure / Platform Architect (System Design Team )

Location: Farnborough (onsite 5 days per week)

Due to the nature of the work and the customers we support, the successful candidate must be eligible to meet UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements, including the applicable residency requirements for the role, and have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Some roles may also be subject to nationality requirements where these are necessary to meet UK Government or contractual security obligations.

The Infrastructure / Platform Architect is a senior, customer-facing architecture role within the customer's multidisciplinary System Design Team (SDT). The SDT operates on behalf of the customer, maintains the end-to-end Solution Architecture and provides governance and assurance of solution designs produced by delivery organisations. The role contributes infrastructure and platform expertise across private cloud, virtualisation, container platforms, compute, storage, networking and shared platform services. It works closely with customer stakeholders, security assurance personnel and delivery partners to help ensure that designs are coherent, secure, supportable and aligned to the wider solution. The role provides authoritative advice within its assigned scope, while respecting the decision rights and accountabilities defined by the customer. The emphasis is on architecture governance, design assurance, cross-domain coordination, and technical influence. Delivery suppliers remain accountable for producing their supporting Service Designs, High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs and implementation artefacts.

Working Relationships

Customer architecture leadership and other SDT disciplines, including security and applications.

Security assurance staff, risk owners, accreditors / assurance authorities and operational stakeholders.

Solution-provider architects, service d...