Senior Principal Architect — IaaS & Compute Platforms
On-site · London, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Senior Principal Architect responsible for defining and owning the architecture for IaaS and compute platforms, spanning bare metal through virtualization and VM lifecycle management. Lead the design of datacenter provisioning flows, platform integration with storage and networking, and automation frameworks. Embed compliance and controls, drive automation via infrastructure-as-code, develop reference architectures and platform blueprints, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with platform engineering, cloud, and application teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment. Lead architecture reviews, governance discussions, and capacity planning, with a focus on observability, cost optimization, and delivery metrics.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification on software infrastructure architecture concepts with expert applied experience
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering IaaS and compute platforms in large, complex, regulated financial services or enterprise environments
- Deep expertise in hypervisor technologies and virtualization platforms (architecture, design, deployment, and operational management)
- Hands-on experience with compute platform integration (storage architectures such as SAN/NAS, network virtualization, and infrastructure management tooling)
- Experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration (infrastructure-as-code frameworks, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, declarative platform models)
- Ability to embed regulatory, risk, and control requirements into infrastructure architecture with audit-ready evidence and change traceability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management with ability to collaborate with engineering teams, vendors, and business partners
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