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About the Role

This role is a strategic leadership position responsible for the global infrastructure, enterprise architecture, data platform foundations, and AI-ready technology capability at M+C Saatchi Group. It focuses on the platforms, integrations, automation, and standards that ensure secure, reliable, and scalable operations across the Group's technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global infrastructure and enterprise architecture strategy, roadmap, and target-state ecosystem.
• Lead the design, operation, and continuous improvement of core technology platforms including cloud infrastructure, identity services, networking, collaboration technologies, storage, endpoint management, and enterprise platforms.
• Establish and govern enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, design standards, and technology roadmaps across infrastructure, applications, data, integration, and AI platform services.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural assurance for infrastructure, platform, data, and AI-related transformation initiatives before production deployment.
• Drive data platform simplification, consolidation, and harmonisation, ensuring data services are resilient, secure, scalable, and appropriately governed.
• Define and govern the Group's enterprise integration architecture, middleware platforms, and iPaaS capabilities, ensuring seamless interoperability.
• Define the infrastructure, platform, and architectural standards required to support enterprise AI, automation, agentic workflows, innovation sandboxes, and emerging technology initiatives.
• Drive automation across infrastructure operations, provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and service delivery processes.
• Ensure operational resilience through robust monitoring, disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and incident response capabilities.
• Own infrastructure capacity planning, performance management, availability management, and service optimisation activities.
• Lead identity, access management, and platform security initiatives in partnership with the Information Security function.
• Oversee vendor relationships, managed service providers, strategic technology partners, and infrastructure-related procurement activities.
• Lead and develop a global team of infrastructure engineers, support analysts, and platform specialists.
• Partner with Service Delivery teams to ensure new and changed services transition cleanly into operational support.
• Provide regular reporting, strategic recommendations, and technology roadmaps to the Global CIO and senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, and technology operations in a complex global organisation with hybrid technology environments.
• Proven experience developing and implementing enterprise architecture strategies, governance models, and technology standards.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies, specifically M365 applications inc. Copilot, Entra, Intune, Defender and Azure cloud platforms.
• Experience managing global networks, identity platforms, collaboration technologies, and enterprise infrastructure systems and services i.e. ERP, CRM.
• Experience delivering infrastructure transformation, consolidation, standardisation, and lifecycle management programmes.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based data storage platforms, including file management structures/security and AI-ready platform foundations.
• Experience designing and governing enterprise integration architectures, including middleware, iPaaS platforms, APIs, event-driven architectures, and data exchange frameworks.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, risk management, compliance, and resilience frameworks.
• Experience leading geographically distributed technical teams and specialist engineering resources.
• Experience managing technology vendors, managed service providers, and strategic partnerships.
• Strong financial management, budgeting, and technology investment planning skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, leadership, and communication capabilities.
• Experience supporting AI-enabled platforms, agentic workflows, orchestration tools, or innovation sandbox environments.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, regional integrations, or global organisational transformation.
• Familiarity with ISO27001, NIST, Cyber Essentials Plus, or related governance frameworks.
• Experience implementing infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, or platform engineering practices.
• Exposure to FinOps, cloud cost optimisation, and technology portfolio rationalisation initiatives.
• Experience within professional services, media, marketing, consulting, or creative industries.

Skills

• Microsoft 365 (Copilot, Entra, Intune, Defender)
• Azure cloud platforms
• Global networks
• Identity platforms
• Collaboration technologies
• Enterprise infrastructure systems
• ERP
• CRM
• Cloud-based data storage platforms
• AI-ready platform foundations
• Enterprise integration architectures
• Middleware
• iPaaS platforms
• APIs
• Event-driven architectures
• Data exchange frameworks
• Infrastructure security
• Risk management
• Compliance
• Resilience frameworks
• Financial management
• Budgeting
• Technology investment planning
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership
• Communication
• AI-enabled platforms
• Agentic workflows
• Orchestration tools
• Innovation sandbox environments
• Infrastructure automation
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Platform engineering
• FinOps
• Cloud cost optimisation
• Technology portfolio rationalisation

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior technology leader

Benefits

• 27 days annual holiday
• Private healthcare
• Employer contributory pension
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Subsidised gym membership
• Learning opportunities around D&I
• Mentoring programmes
• Opportunity to participate in Employee Led Networks and associated events
• Personal development support

About the Company

• M+C Saatchi Group is a creative solutions company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data, technology, and culture, to help clients navigate, create, and lead meaningful change.
• The Group operates across five core divisions: Connected Creativity; Passion Marketing; Global & Social Issues; Brand, Experience & Innovation; and Performance Media.
• Headquartered in London, operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, US, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.
• M+C Saatchi Group’s two principles, Diversity of Thought and Brutal Simplicity of Thought, guide how they build teams and solve problems.

Equal Opportunity

• M+C Saatchi Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on talent and capability, without regard for any personal characteristics.
• All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).