Senior Solution Architect (Compute & Storage)- London, Bristol or Edinburgh

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Solution Architect (Compute & Storage) to work for our client within the Financial Services sector. This is initially a 6-12 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in London, Bristol or Edinburgh.

Our client is seeking a senior Solution Architect with deep expertise across enterprise compute, storage and infrastructure platforms to support a strategic programme of transformation and modernisation across its on-premise estate.

This individual will provide architectural leadership across infrastructure initiatives, defining target-state architectures, technical standards, roadmaps and solution designs whilst working closely with engineering, operations, security and vendor teams. The role requires a blend of strategic thinking and hands-on technical credibility, with a particular focus on resilient, secure and scalable infrastructure platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and design of enterprise compute and storage solutions.
• Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), reference architectures, technical standards and roadmap artefacts.
• Define future-state infrastructure architecture aligned to business, operational and security requirements.
• Provide architectural governance and technical assurance across infrastructure programmes.
• Support platform engineering teams through design reviews, prototyping and implementation guidance.
• Develop strategies covering capacity planning, performance optimisation, data lifecycle management and storage governance.
• Design highly available, resilient and recoverable infrastructure solutions.
• Drive standardisation, automation and operational efficiency across the technology estate.
• Evaluate technology options and vendor solutions, providing clear recommendations and trade-off analysis.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, security, operations and application teams to ensure successful delivery of solutions.