Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Role: Lead Infrastructure Engineer Location: UK (Tuesday and Wednesday in Bristol Onsite) Contract Start Date: ASAP End Date: 12 month duration Daily Rate: Inside IR35 Payroll provider – Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay “Deloitte sets the requirements for the assignment. Rockford Resourcing acts as the agency on behalf of Deloitte and is responsible for sourcing candidates to fulfil the assignment. Successful candidates will be employed by Rockford Payroll. Rockford Payroll is responsible for the Associate’s employment, pay and applicable employment-related processes.” The Role We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Lead to lead the engineering delivery of a complex infrastructure transformation and data-centre migration. The role will lead a team of experienced infrastructure engineers, translating the target architecture into a practical, well-estimated and executable engineering plan. Key Responsibilities Lead and coordinate a team of experienced infrastructure engineers, managing workload, priorities, dependencies and delivery across the team. Provide strong technical leadership, steer and challenge, ensuring engineering decisions are pragmatic, consistent and aligned to the target architecture. Establish and embed engineering best practices and ways of working, driving quality, repeatability, automation and effective technical assurance. Translate the target architecture into clear engineering work packages across areas such as compute and VMware, storage and backup, database platforms, networking, security and resilience. Lead the estimation of engineering effort, resource requirements and delivery complexity, working with engineering SMEs to develop and challenge estimates. Define engineering dependencies and sequencing, providing robust inputs into the integrated programme plan and wider cost and timeline estimates. Maintain oversight of engineering progress, risks, blockers and capacity, proactively identifying where technical complexity or dependencies could affect delivery. Coordinate engineering activities across environment build, configuration, testing, migration, cutover and operational handover. Work closely with architecture, application, database, network, security and operations teams to ensure engineering delivery is integrated across the wider programme. Experience & Skills Required Proven experience leading infrastructure engineering teams on large-scale transformation or migration programmes. Strong experience in engineering estimation, resource planning, sequencing and dependency management. Broad technical understanding across enterprise infrastructure, ideally including VMware/VCF, server platforms, storage, backup, networking and high-availability/disaster-recovery solutions. Sufficient technical depth to effectively steer and challenge experienced engineers without needing to be the detailed SME for every technology. Strong delivery leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.