Our client, a global consulting firm, is supporting a leading banking institution seeking support from an experienced Infrastructure SME to conduct a rapid, independent assessment of its enterprise technology landscape. The engagement is focused on understanding the current infrastructure environment, benchmarking market practices, and identifying opportunities to optimise architecture, resilience, and technology costs.

The consultant will work closely with client stakeholders to evaluate infrastructure domains including data centers, disaster recovery, private cloud, networks, security, compute, storage, and middleware. With limited initial inputs available, the consultant will leverage market intelligence, vendor relationships, and industry benchmarks to provide actionable recommendations that support technology modernisation and cost optimisation decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the bank’s infrastructure landscape across data centers, DR, private cloud, network, security, compute, storage, and middleware environments.
• Conduct independent technology, vendor, and pricing discovery using market research and industry networks.
• Leverage relationships with OEMs, distributors, system integrators, and technology vendors to obtain market benchmarks, pricing insights, and competitive intelligence.
• Identify opportunities to optimise infrastructure architecture, improve resilience, enhance performance, and reduce costs.
• Develop solution comparisons and provide recommendations on optimal technology designs and commercial approaches.
• Translate technical assessments into clear business and commercial insights for senior stakeholder decision-making.

Your Background

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, technology architecture, or infrastructure advisory roles.
• Strong understanding across infrastructure domains including data centers, cloud, networks, security, compute, storage, and middleware.
• Proven ability to independently assess technology environments and derive recommendations with limited or incomplete information.
• Strong network among technology OEMs, distributors, system integrators, and infrastructure service providers.
• Experience supporting cost optimisation, technology modernisation, infrastructure transformation, or benchmarking initiatives.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with an advisory mindset.
• Prior experience working with banking, financial services, or large regulated enterprises preferred.

Other Info

• The engagement will be based out of Mumbai (with flexibility for consultants from other locations).
• The initial engagement duration is 2 weeks, with flexibility to extend up to 1 month depending on project requirements.
• The consultant can support on full-time/part-time basis but should be available for client discussions during working hours when required.
• The engagement will be outcome-based, focused on delivering insights around infrastructure pricing discovery, market benchmarks, competitor practices, and cost optimisation opportunities.