Strategic infrastructure adviser
Advising an executive board on its infrastructure choices over ten years. A role of judgement and counsel, without delivery.
- Executive level
- Paris, with travel
- Permanent, contract or shared time
The role
- Build a ten to fifteen year infrastructure trajectory with the board, and revise it periodically.
- Model the investments: amounts, timing and the cost of deferral.
- Lead the modernisation of critical infrastructure while operations continue: hybrid cloud, networks, security.
- Identify and rank systemic risks: cybersecurity, critical dependencies, end of support.
- Provide an independent assessment of the technical choices already made.
Profile sought
- Proven experience leading complex architectures in regulated environments: banking, insurance, energy or industry.
- A background as head of infrastructure, chief architect, CTO or information systems strategy consultant.
- The ability to set out and defend a technical trade-off before an executive board.
- Knowledge of innovation cycles and their bearing on infrastructure decisions.
- Independence of judgement, with no ties to a vendor or a manufacturer.