Job Description
The Role
We're looking for experienced Senior Technical Leads to own key technology domains and migration workstreams on a major financial services platform modernisation programme, migrating a global VMware estate of 250,000+ VMs to OpenShift.
This is a hands-on delivery role, not a purely advisory one. You'll combine deep technical infrastructure knowledge with delivery leadership, owning outcomes, resolving complex technical challenges, and coordinating across engineering, architecture, operations and programme teams.
What You'll Do
- Lead a defined technology domain or migration workstream
- Own technical direction, decisions and delivery outcomes
- Drive migration and platform modernisation activity through to completion
- Identify and remove technical blockers, risks and dependencies
- Stay hands-on while providing technical leadership
- Represent your workstream in governance and technical review forums
- Engage confidently with senior engineers, architects and executive stakeholders
What We're Looking For
- Strong enterprise infrastructure/server technical knowledge
- Deep experience with large-scale virtualised environments, particularly VMware/vSphere
- Track record leading major migration or platform modernisation workstreams
- Experience owning delivery outcomes, not just advising on them
- Ability to operate independently in large, complex enterprise environments
- Credibility with senior engineers, architects and executive stakeholders
- Comfortable challenging technical decisions and leading experienced engineering teams
Relevant tech: VMware vSphere, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, platform engineering, compute/x86, networking, storage.
Backgrounds we're interested in: Senior Technical Architect, Technical Lead, Principal Consultant, Engineering Lead, Senior Infrastructure Architect.