Technical Lead, IT​/Tech, Systems Engineer

Rate: Competitive Market Rate Inside IR35

The Opportunity

We're supporting a major UK financial services organisation undergoing significant infrastructure modernisation and operational resilience initiatives. As part of a high-performing technology function, we're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across enterprise infrastructure, platform services, cloud technologies, and operational support teams.

This is a hands‑on leadership role where you'll be responsible for guiding infrastructure strategy, driving technical standards, overseeing critical project delivery, and acting as a key escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, cloud and platform services.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continual improvement of enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Own technical governance, engineering standards, and best practices.
• Support infrastructure transformation and modernisation initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, security, engineering, and operational teams.
• Drive automation, resilience, availability and performance improvements across core platforms.
• Lead incident resolution for complex technical issues and major incidents.
• Mentor and support infrastructure engineers, acting as a technical authority within the team.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions align with security, regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Support capacity planning, lifecycle management and technical roadmap development.
• Strong experience in a Technical Lead, Infrastructure Lead, or Senior Infrastructure Engineer position.
• Deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong experience across:
• Windows Server
• Virtualisation technologies (VMware preferred)
• Active Directory
• DNS, DHCP and networking fundamentals
• Enterprise storage and backup technologies
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or hybrid environments)
• Experience delivering infrastructure change and transformation projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to provide technical leadership across multiple work streams.
• Experience operating within large, complex, regulated organisations.

Any experience in the following would be highly advantageous:

• Firewall technologies (Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco ASA or similar)
• Cyber Ark Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Enterprise security tooling
• Identity and Access Management
• Infrastructure automation and scripting
• Financial services or regulated industry experience

What's on Offer?

• Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential.
• Opportunity to work within a large-scale enterprise technology environment.
• Exposure to complex infrastructure, cloud and security programmes.
• Collaborative team with significant investment in technology transformation.