Infrastructure Architect, Toronto

The Core Responsibilities! 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.

Let's Talk About You! Education and Experience

Educational Background: Preferably a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

Professional Experience: At least ten years in IT, with a minimum of five years in senior IT technical role.

Solution Design and Implementation: Proven expertise in designing and implementing enterprise‑grade solutions with comprehensive documentation and strategic plans.

Technical Proficiencies

Cloud Platforms&Services:

Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, with a focus on

Azure

and supporting hybrid environments.

Application&Platform Infrastructure:

Solid understanding of application platforms and middleware (e.g., application servers, web servers, platform services), with the ability to design scalable and resilient runtime environments.

Virtualization&Cloud Infrastructure:

Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g., IaC, IaaS, PaaS), including capacity planning and platform design.

Containers&Orchestration:

Practical experience designing and supporting containerized platforms using

Docker

and

Kubernetes , including platform architecture and operational considerations.

Operating Systems:

Deep understanding of

Linux/UNIX

operating systems (e.g., Red Hat, AIX), including performance, security, and lifecycle management.

DevOps&Automation:

Experience supporting or enabling

DevOps practices , CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code approaches.

Data Platforms (Architectural Level):

Working knowledge of relational database technologies and data platforms, including OLTP and data warehousing architectures, from an infrastructure and scalability perspective.

Networking&Connectivity:

Strong understanding of enterprise and cloud networking concepts, including routing, segmentation, load balancing, and secure connectivity.

Security Architecture:

Solid understanding of security principles, frameworks, and controls as they apply to cloud and infrastructure design.

AI Platform Infrastructure : Experience designing and governing cloud‑based AI platform infrastructure (e.g., Azure AI platforms), including landing zone integration, network isolation, identity and RBAC, platform security controls, model governance enablement, and operational monitoring.

API Management Platforms:

Experience designing and governing API management infrastructure (e.g., Azure API Management) with a focus on security, identity integration, network architecture, resiliency, scalability, observability, and operational supportability.

Benefits

Competitive discretionary bonus

Market leading RRSP match program

Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one

Generous vacation policy and personal days

Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues

Professional development and comprehensive Career Development program

A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience

The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from Equitable Bank’s additional office space located at

2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON .

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