Technology / Infrastructure Architect

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.