The Technology / Infrastructure Architect is responsible for defining, assessing, and evolving the enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture to ensure reliable, scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology foundations. The role covers compute, storage, network, virtualization, operating platforms, infrastructure services, hosting, cloud and hybrid environments, technology standards, lifecycle management, resilience, and modernization
Requirements
- Develop and maintain the enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction
- Assess the current infrastructure landscape, including compute, storage, networks, virtualization, operating systems, hosting, and shared technology services
- Define target-state technology and infrastructure architecture and transition roadmaps
- Develop technology standards, reference architectures, principles, patterns, and approved technology portfolios
- Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure architectures
- Define architecture for on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments
- Assess infrastructure capacity, utilization, performance, availability, and lifecycle status
- Identify technology obsolescence, end-of-life risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities
- Define architecture requirements for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, and fault tolerance
- Support network architecture including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, data center networking, connectivity, and segmentation
- Support server, storage, virtualization, container, and platform architecture decisions
- Collaborate with cloud, security, application, integration, data, and solution architects to ensure coherent end-to-end architecture
- Support infrastructure platform selection, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, and solution reviews
- Participate in architecture governance, technical design reviews, and Architecture Review Boards
- Define infrastructure monitoring, observability, capacity management, and operational architecture requirements
- Support data center modernization, consolidation, migration, and infrastructure transformation programs
- Identify infrastructure architecture risks, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation actions
Required Experience
- * Minimum 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, cloud, data center, or related technology disciplines
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Architecture, or a comparable senior design role
- Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure environments
- Experience with data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, and hybrid architectures
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure modernization, migration, transformation, or consolidation programs
- Strong experience working with technology vendors, infrastructure teams, security teams, and senior stakeholders
Core Competencies
- Enterprise Technology Architecture
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Compute and server architecture
- Storage architecture
- Network architecture
- Virtualization and container platforms
- Cloud and hybrid infrastructure
- Data center architecture
- High availability and resilience
- Disaster recovery and business continuity architecture
- Technology lifecycle and obsolescence management
- Infrastructure security and segmentation
- Architecture governance and assurance
- Technology evaluation and vendor assessment
Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods
- * TOGAF
- ArchiMate
- ITIL
- COBIT
- Cloud architecture frameworks and well-architected principles
- Infrastructure and data center architecture best practices
- High availability, disaster recovery, and resilience design principles
- DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts
Preferred Tools & Technology Exposure
- * Enterprise architecture tools such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, or similar platforms
- Virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, or equivalent platforms
- Container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
- Enterprise server, storage, backup, and data center technologies
- Networking and security technologies across enterprise and data center environments
- Infrastructure monitoring and observability platforms
Preferred Qualifications & Certifications
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, or a related discipline
- TOGAF certification is highly desirable
- Cloud architecture certifications are highly desirable
- Relevant certifications in networking, virtualization, infrastructure, data center, or platform technologies are advantageous
Personal Attributes
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking capability
- Ability to design pragmatic technology architectures balancing resilience, performance, security, scalability, and cost
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work across multiple technology towers and architecture domains
- Strong attention to infrastructure quality, standards, and operational practicality
- Consulting mindset with the ability to support complex transformation programs
