Senior / Lead Infrastructure Architect
For organisations modernising hybrid infrastructure, cloud foundations, datacentres, networking, identity, resilience and cybersecurity controls.
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I lead from the point where technology strategy, delivery, governance and people meet.
Approach
My background combines hands-on engineering credibility with senior architecture, stakeholder management and programme leadership. I can work with engineers on detailed design decisions, suppliers on delivery risk, and senior leaders on investment cases, trade-offs and operational readiness.
I have led technical teams, acted as infrastructure technical authority, worked several contracts as interim infrastructure manager, managed vendors, shaped delivery standards and presented complex technology decisions to senior and executive stakeholders.
Typical areas of leadership
Infrastructure strategy and roadmap ownership.
Technical leadership across cloud, datacentre, cybersecurity, identity and resilience programmes.
Executive stakeholder engagement and board-level communication.
Supplier and vendor governance across major technology programmes.
Engineering standards, design assurance and delivery governance.
Team mentoring, technical direction and capability development.
Cost reduction through better architecture, licensing decisions, platform rationalisation and cloud cost optimisation (FinOps).
Decision-making in ambiguous, high-pressure or greenfield environments.
My leadership style is pragmatic, calm and evidence-led. I focus on making technology decisions understandable, deliverable and defensible.
Roles I am best aligned to
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