Senior Infrastructure Architect

Apply by: 05 Nov 2026

Administration, HR, Management, Accounting/Finance

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect within the Infrastructure and Operations team in the Information Technology and Services (ITS) unit, based at BIS Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. This is a 3-year fixed-term contract. The BIS can hire globally and welcomes applications from candidates of all nationalities; relocation support is available for the successful candidate and dependent family members.

Purpose of the job:
Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable and cost-efficient architecture across diverse infrastructure domains (compute, storage, networks, cloud, AI). Define target-state architectures, establish reusable patterns, and provide governance and technical leadership to ensure alignment with business priorities, compliance and resilience.

• * Own end-to-end infrastructure architecture for complex, multi-domain initiatives, defining reference designs and reviewing designs against non-functional requirements.
• * Author and maintain infrastructure policies, standards, reference architectures and roadmaps.
• * Engage senior business and technology stakeholders to align infrastructure design with priorities, risk appetite and SLAs, RPO/RTO and compliance requirements.
• * Define secure-by-design and resilience patterns (segmentation, encryption, zero-trust) and validate disaster recovery and backup strategies.
• * Provide design authority across delivery teams and steer non-functional testing strategies.
• * Lead evaluation and selection of infrastructure technologies, proofs of concept and rationalisation recommendations.
• * Drive simplification through standardisation, consolidation and decommissioning; maintain visibility of platform costs.

• * Demonstrated expertise architecting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises data centers, private and public cloud, including virtualization, containers, networks and storage.
• * Strong understanding of cloud-native and container platforms (including Open Shift), infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• * Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and translate stakeholder requirements into clear architecture outcomes.
• * Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior management.
• * Experience designing infrastructure for AI use cases; banking or financial services experience is a plus.

The BIS's corporate language is English. The BIS offers hybrid working, a competitive compensation and benefits package, and an international working environment.

Final date to receive applications: 05 Nov 2026