Infrastructure Designer (Banking)

Job Title: Infrastructure Designer (Banking)
Location: Manchester (3 days a week on-site)
Salary/Rate: £390 -403 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 02/03/2026
Job Type: Initial contract until 31/08/2026

Candidates must have recent financial services experience.

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Infrastructure Designer to join their team in Manchester on a hybrid basis.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
You will be responsible for designing and assuring end-to-end infrastructure solutions, producing technical design documentation, leading third-party delivery teams, and providing technical escalation across VMware, networking, and enterprise platforms.

? Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier.
? To coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end to end project costs and business cases and to assist with the estimates for the end to end IT costs.
? Leadership within projects of technical resources and SMEs.
? Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers, so that the best value for money and service is delivered.
? Ensure that clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the Infrastructure CoE and that these issues are addressed.
? Work with 3rd party supplier build teams, development and test environment leads to ensure that solutions implemented across the Bank project portfolio are compliant to design.
? Involvement with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing / new solutions.
? Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues.
? Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database or Connect:Direct.
? Responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns.
? Responsibility for producing and assuring Infrastructure Roadmaps.
? Provide technical escalation point for production services.
? Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

? Extensive experience in VM Ware Platforms and Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Environments & Firewall Knowledge
? Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution, design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment which resulted in improved efficiency, performance and financial benefit.
? Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams, liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers.
? Excellent technical authoring skills

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

? Mainframe (CICS, COBOL, Objecstar, CA Datacom, VSAM etc.)
? UNIX Environments (AIX, LINUX, Solaris etc.)
? Wintel / Storage / Desktop Environments
? Data Centre Hosting
? Cloud Services and integration
? Mobile and BYOD
? Middleware and Integration (IBM Message Broker, DataStage etc.)

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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