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 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 organization’s 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.

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 non‑functional 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 cross‑functional 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.