Infrastructure Architect

• →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.
 

 

• 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.

 

• 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.

• 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.

EQ is committed to building an inclusive, accessible environment where every employee feels valued, respected, and supported. We believe our organization is stronger — and our people thrive — when we honour and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives. We’re equally committed to supporting your growth, both professionally and personally.

We provide a barrier‑free recruitment process and work environment. If you require accommodations at any stage, we will work with you to ensure you can bring your best self to the process and beyond.

As part of our recruitment process, EQ uses AI to help screen, assess, and/or select applicants for this position. All AI-enabled outputs are reviewed and validated by our talent team. All candidates considered for hire must successfully complete a criminal background check and credit check. While we appreciate every application, an EQ recruiter will contact only those whose skills and experience most closely match the requirements of the role.


EQB Inc. (TSX: EQB) is the parent company of Equitable Bank, the country's seventh-largest Schedule I bank by assets, which operates EQ Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™. EQB Inc. serves nearly 4 million Canadians and manages approximately $150 billion in combined assets under management and administration. 

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