Infrastructure Architect

General Responsibilities

• Cloud & Technology Evaluation: Evaluate emerging cloud services infrastructure platforms and architectural approaches to ensure alignment with current and future business needs.
• Architectural & Financial Analysis: Perform technical architectural and cost analyses to support infrastructure planning cloud design and investment decisions.
• Cloud Design Principles: Apply cloud and infrastructure design principles that balance cost optimization availability scalability supportability and security.
• Collaborative Solution Design: Partner with the Director of Infrastructure Architecture and key stakeholders to assess requirements and design cloudcentric infrastructure solutions.
• Security & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure cloud and infrastructure architectures comply with security risk and regulatory requirements including OSFI guidelines.
• Architecture Assessment & Optimization: Regularly assess infrastructure and cloud architectures to identify gaps inefficiencies technical debt and opportunities for improvement.
• Technology Research & Proof of Concept: Research evaluate and where appropriate pilot new cloud platforms services tools and vendors.
• Vendor & Partner Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with cloud and infrastructure vendors to leverage external expertise and emerging capabilities.
• Infrastructure Strategy Contribution: Contribute to the development and evolution of the organizations infrastructure and cloud strategy roadmaps and futurestate direction.

• Architect and govern enterprise AI platform foundations including secure cloud landing zones networking identity rolebased access control and operational guardrails for AI workloads. Ensure AI platforms are designed to meet nonfunctional requirements related to security scalability resiliency observability cost management and regulatory compliance.

Standards & Governance

• Cloud & Infrastructure Standards: Define maintain and enforce cloud and infrastructure standards architectural principles and best practices.
• Reference Architectures & Patterns: Establish and promote reusable cloud architecture patterns reference designs and platform standards.
• Policies & Guardrails: Define and enforce policies for cloud and infrastructure design deployment security and lifecycle management.
• Risk & Resilience: Identify architectural risks and develop mitigation strategies in collaboration with security operations and delivery teams.

• Define and enforce infrastructure standards and nonfunctional requirements for API platforms including API management gateways network placement identity integration security controls resiliency patterns monitoring and lifecycle management.

Leadership Development and Continuous Improvement

• Technical Leadership: Collaborate with the Associate Director of Shared Services to establish and evolve technical standards for cloud and infrastructure platforms.
• Operational Alignment: Ensure architecture decisions support operational excellence and align with internal and external technical standards.
• Networking & Connectivity Insight: Work closely with IT colleagues to understand and influence current and future networking connectivity and cloud integration capabilities.
• Organizational Contributions: Participate in departmental initiatives programs and crossfunctional efforts as required.
• Architecture Community Leadership: Lead the Infrastructure Architect Forum facilitating discussions on cloud architecture standards solution design and tactical challenges.
• Trusted Advisor & Mentor: Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to infrastructure platform and application teams providing architectural guidance throughout project and product lifecycles.

Education and Experience:

• Educational Background: Preferably a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Professional Experience: At least ten years in IT with a minimum of five years in senior IT technical role.
• Solution Design and Implementation: Proven expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-grade solutions with comprehensive documentation and strategic plans.

Technical Proficiencies:

• Cloud Platforms & Services: Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure and supporting hybrid environments.
• Application & Platform Infrastructure: Solid understanding of application platforms and middleware (e.g. application servers web servers platform services) with the ability to design scalable and resilient runtime environments.
• Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure: Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g. IaC IaaS PaaS) including capacity planning and platform design.
• Containers & Orchestration: Practical experience designing and supporting containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes including platform architecture and operational considerations.
• Operating Systems: Deep understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems (e.g. Red Hat AIX) including performance security and lifecycle management.
• DevOps & Automation: Experience supporting or enabling DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines infrastructure automation and infrastructureascode approaches.
• Data Platforms (Architectural Level): Working knowledge of relational database technologies and data platforms including OLTP and data warehousing architectures from an infrastructure and scalability perspective.
• Networking & Connectivity: Strong understanding of enterprise and cloud networking concepts including routing segmentation load balancing and secure connectivity.
• Security Architecture: Solid understanding of security principles frameworks and controls as they apply to cloud and infrastructure design.
• AI Platform Infrastructure: Experience designing and governing cloudbased AI platform infrastructure (e.g. Azure AI platforms) including landing zone integration network isolation identity and RBAC platform security controls model governance enablement and operational monitoring.
• API Management Platforms:
  Experience designing and governing API management infrastructure (e.g. Azure API Management) with a focus on security identity integration network architecture resiliency scalability observability and operational supportability.