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Infrastructure Architect (Networks Strategy)

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted February 01, 2026
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We are recruiting an Infrastructure Architect (Networks) to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Legal & General’s network landscape. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and guiding the evolution of our network infrastructure to ensure it remains robust, secure, and scalable. Operating on a fractional basis across multiple product and service teams, the Infrastructure Architect will provide technical leadership, mentor fellow architects, and collaborate closely with Product Owners and engineers. With deep expertise in L&G’s infrastructure, policies, and standards, they will be empowered to drive informed, timely decisions removing blockers and accelerating delivery across the organisation. A key part of this role is providing forward‑thinking recommendations that enhance resilience and performance, while contributing to the seamless implementation of network solutions in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Job Responsibility

  • Leading the design of network infrastructure across multiple teams to ensure alignment with L&G’s overarching technology architecture and strategy, enabling technology to fully support business objectives
  • Designing and enabling mechanisms for rapid, delegated architectural decision‑making within product and service teams, ensuring that architecture does not hinder delivery for customers
  • Developing and clearly communicating strategies, solution designs, key decisions and architectural approaches, while creating roadmaps, patterns and standards to ensure consistent adoption across all teams
  • Acting as a trusted authority on L&G’s infrastructure policies, standards and frameworks, providing pragmatic and actionable guidance that empowers teams to deliver at pace
  • Leading the evaluation and selection of new technologies and infrastructure options, using deep expertise in network and infrastructure domains to guide teams toward the most effective solutions
  • Determining when architectural decisions require escalation to enterprise‑level governance forums, ensuring that only high‑impact matters are raised for organisation‑wide consideration
  • Engaging stakeholders and conducting appropriate testing ahead of any system or business changes to ensure a full understanding of impacts on internal teams and customers, in line with Consumer Duty obligations

Requirements

  • Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CCIE, CISSP) are advantageous
  • Strong, in‑depth expertise across network and security technologies, including WAN, cloud environments (AWS and Azure), data centre networking, and office LAN and wireless solutions spanning multiple vendors
  • Solid understanding of complementary technologies such as DNS, Active Directory, Entra ID, and proxy services
  • Extensive experience designing modern network infrastructure solutions using both cloud-based and on‑premise technologies in a product‑ or service‑oriented environment
  • Proven track record delivering large-scale network migration and transformation programmes, including oversight and assurance of third‑party suppliers and the ability to communicate complex solutions effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
  • Experience working within Financial Services or other highly regulated environments
  • Demonstrated leadership in shaping, coordinating, and delivering complex network architecture initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and architecture teams
  • Experience mentoring and developing less‑experienced architects, driving architectural best practices, and influencing design decisions that balance quality, cost, and delivery timelines while navigating technical constraints and dependencies.

What we offer

  • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
  • Generous pension contribution
  • Life assurance
  • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
  • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
  • Competitive family leave
  • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
  • There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online

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