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.