Infrastructure Architect
Summary
Designs and governs cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure to ensure scalability, security, and high availability for enterprise applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Define and maintain infrastructure architecture, standards, principles, and guidelines.
- Design cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure architectures.
- Define compute, storage, network, and connectivity architecture.
- Define high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience architectures.
- Define infrastructure capacity, scalability, and performance requirements.
- Design infrastructure environments to support enterprise applications and platforms.
- Define infrastructure integration, connectivity, and communication requirements.
- Review and provide architecture recommendations for infrastructure designs and major projects.
- Assess current infrastructure against target architecture and identify gaps and modernization requirements.
- Identify infrastructure risks, dependencies, constraints, and potential impacts.
- Ensure infrastructure architecture supports business, application, security, and technology requirements.
- Work closely with Cybersecurity, Network, Cloud, DevOps, Application, and Technology teams.
- Support infrastructure modernization, transformation, cloud adoption, and optimization initiatives.
- Maintain infrastructure architecture documentation, diagrams, standards, and decision records.
- Ensure compliance with approved Enterprise Architecture, technology standards, security requirements, and applicable regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ overall experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, Technology Architecture, or related technical roles.
- Significant experience in infrastructure architecture within large and complex enterprise environments.
- Experience in banking or financial services is highly preferred.
- Experience working in a SAMA-regulated environment is an advantage.
- Strong experience in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure architecture.
- Strong knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure technologies.
- Strong experience designing high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure and/or AWS.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, connectivity, and integration requirements.
- Experience working with DevOps, Cybersecurity, Network, Cloud, and Application teams.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure standards, architecture governance, and technology lifecycle management.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architecture, or other recognized infrastructure/cloud certifications are preferred