Solution Architect Lead - Infrastructure Airport

Aviation Technology
- Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture
- Systems Integration

Solution Architect
- Infrastructure

Lead Solution Architect / Chief Architect
- Airports

Senior / Experienced

On-site at airport program with hybrid working; travel as required

Full-time, permanent

The Solution Architect
- Infrastructure designs the compute, storage, cloud, data center and platform infrastructure that hosts airport systems, ensuring resilient, secure and scalable foundations for a 24/7 operational environment.

The role produces infrastructure designs and standards and works across cloud, on-premise and edge to support the airport application and integration estate.

• Design compute, storage, cloud, data center, platform and edge infrastructure for airport systems.
• Produce infrastructure design documents, patterns and decision records.
• Design for high availability, redundancy, performance, backup and disaster recovery.

• Design cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), hybrid and on-premise solutions and landing zones.
• Embed security, monitoring, automation and manageability into infrastructure.
• Support capacity, resilience and operational readiness.

• Work with application, integration, network and cyber domains for coherent designs.
• Support estimation, planning and risk for the infrastructure domain.
• Engage with delivery teams and vendors.

• Infrastructure architecture: Solid experience in infrastructure/cloud architecture on complex programs.
• Cloud & data center: Hands-on with cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), virtualization, data center, storage and platforms.
• Resilience & DR: Designing for HA, redundancy, backup and disaster recovery.
• Security & automation: Understanding of infrastructure security and automation (IaC).
• Collaboration & communication: Effective across domains with good stakeholder skills.
• Cloud/infrastructure certifications (Azure/AWS Architect, VMware).
• Experience in aviation, transport or 24/7 critical-infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of edge/OT hosting in an airport campus.
• Exposure to MSI operating models.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Infrastructure and systems thinking - resilience focus - attention to detail - collaboration - problem-solving - security awareness - clear communication