Infrastructure Architect

Overview

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The Infrastructure Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and evolving the banks cloud-centric infrastructure platforms. This role focuses on the design and governance of scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure across public cloud, hybrid, and supporting on-prem environments. The Infrastructure Architect ensures cloud and infrastructure solutions are aligned with business objectives, IT strategy, and operational requirements.

Serving as the architectural authority for infrastructure, the role translates business, application, and operational needs into cloud-forward designs that emphasize automation, elasticity, security, and cost optimization. The Infrastructure Architect establishes cloud architecture standards, reference designs, and patterns that enable consistent adoption of cloud services while supporting reliability, performance, and compliance requirements.

Working closely with the Director of Infrastructure Architecture, VP of Infrastructure & Operations (I&O), and technology leadership, the Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in shaping cloud strategy and major technology investments. This includes evaluating cloud services and platforms, defining target-state cloud and hybrid architectures, developing roadmaps for cloud adoption and modernization, and producing clear, actionable architecture documentation and recommendations.

In addition, the Infrastructure Architect acts as a trusted advisor to infrastructure, platform, and application teams, providing guidance on cloud best practices, platform selection, and architectural trade-offs. Through collaboration and influence, the role helps drive consistent, efficient, and sustainable cloud and infrastructure solutions across the organization.

• 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 cloud-centric 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 future-state direction.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI platform foundations, including secure cloud landing zones, networking, identity, role-based access control, and operational guardrails for AI workloads. Ensure AI platforms are designed to meet non-functional requirements related to security, scalability, resiliency, observability, cost management, and regulatory compliance.

• 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.
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