Technology / Infrastructure Architect

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop current- and target-state architecture, transition roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, principles, patterns, and approved technology portfolios.
• Assess infrastructure capacity, utilization, performance, availability, lifecycle, obsolescence, end-of-life risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
• Design on-premises, private, public, and hybrid architectures, including network, server, storage, virtualization, container, and platform decisions.
• Define backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, fault tolerance, monitoring, observability, capacity management, and operational requirements.
• Collaborate across architecture and technology teams; support platform selection, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, reviews, and architecture governance.
• Support data center modernization, consolidation, migration, and transformation; identify architecture risks, constraints, dependencies, and mitigations.

Required experience

• Minimum 10 years in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, cloud, data center, or related technology disciplines.
• At least 5 years in Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Architecture, or a comparable senior design role.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure environments and working across data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure modernization, migration, transformation, or consolidation programs.
• Experience working with technology vendors, infrastructure and security teams, and senior stakeholders.

Frameworks, tools, and technology

• Preferred frameworks and methods include TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL, COBIT, cloud architecture frameworks, well-architected principles, resilience design, and DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.
• Preferred tools and exposure include Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, data center technologies, networking, security, monitoring, and observability platforms.

Preferred qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.
• TOGAF and cloud architecture certifications are highly desirable; relevant networking, virtualization, infrastructure, data center, or platform certifications are advantageous.

Personal attributes