Audit Portfolio Lead - IT Infrastructure Services

Audit Portfolio Lead – IT Infrastructure Services Location: Edinburgh or Bristol (Hybrid – 2 days per week in office) Salary: £90,440 – £106,400 with additional Bonus and pension contribution up to 15% Are you a strategic thinker with deep experience in IT Infrastructure and a passion for driving meaningful change through audit? This is your chance to join one of the UK’s leading financial institutions, where you’ll play a critical role in shaping and delivering high-impact audits across a complex and evolving tech estate. As Audit Portfolio Lead, you’ll take ownership of a diverse and high-profile portfolio of audits focused on infrastructure resilience, cloud technologies, data centres, and system architecture. You’ll influence senior stakeholders, drive innovation, and help build a stronger, safer future for the organisation. What you’ll be doing Lead and oversee the delivery of a portfolio of audits, directly managing complex and high-risk audits Guide and support engagement leads, ensuring quality, insight and timely outcomes Translate infrastructure risks into clear business impact, supporting risk assurance and stakeholder understanding Drive innovation in audit methodology using data-driven techniques and automation Lead and develop a high-performing team, providing coaching, feedback and career support Shape audit strategy and contribute to broader risk, control and governance improvements What you’ll bring Extensive experience auditing IT infrastructure, including networks, data centres, and cloud environments Strong knowledge of resilience, architecture, and operational risks across infrastructure services Relevant qualifications such as CISA, CISSP, or similar Ability to connect technical risk to strategic business outcomes Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with proven experience influencing at senior levels A track record of leading teams, driving performance and fostering collaboration Desirable expertise Experience with cloud architecture and security frameworks Understanding of middleware, mainframe, and batch management systems Familiarity with development lifecycle methodologies Ability to develop innovative audit tools or approaches