Infrastructure Enterprise Architect - Banking

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. 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. 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. Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates