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About the Role

The Infrastructure Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and evolving the Bank's cloud-centric infrastructure platforms. This role focuses on the design and governance of scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure across public cloud, hybrid, and supporting on-prem environments, ensuring alignment with business objectives, IT strategy, and operational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging cloud services, infrastructure platforms, and architectural approaches.
• Perform technical, architectural, and cost analyses to support infrastructure planning and investment decisions.
• Apply cloud and infrastructure design principles balancing cost, availability, scalability, supportability, and security.
• Partner with stakeholders to assess requirements and design cloud-centric infrastructure solutions.
• Ensure cloud and infrastructure architectures comply with security, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess infrastructure and cloud architectures to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Research, evaluate, and pilot new cloud platforms, services, tools, and vendors.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with cloud and infrastructure vendors.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of the organization’s infrastructure and cloud strategy.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI platform foundations, including secure cloud landing zones, networking, identity, role-based access control, and operational guardrails.
• Define, maintain, and enforce cloud and infrastructure standards, architectural principles, and best practices.
• Establish and promote reusable cloud architecture patterns, reference designs, and platform standards.
• Define and enforce policies for cloud and infrastructure design, deployment, security, and lifecycle management.
• Identify architectural risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Define and enforce infrastructure standards and non-functional requirements for API platforms.
• Collaborate to establish and evolve technical standards for cloud and infrastructure platforms.
• Ensure architecture decisions support operational excellence and align with technical standards.
• Understand and influence current and future networking, connectivity, and cloud integration capabilities.
• Participate in departmental initiatives, programs, and cross-functional efforts.
• Lead the Infrastructure Architect Forum, facilitating discussions on cloud architecture, standards, solution design, and tactical challenges.
• Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to infrastructure, platform, and application teams.

Requirements

• Preferably a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• At least ten years in IT, with a minimum of five years in a senior IT technical role.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-grade solutions with comprehensive documentation and strategic plans.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, with a focus on Azure and supporting hybrid environments.
• Solid understanding of application platforms and middleware.
• Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Practical experience designing and supporting containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems.
• Experience supporting or enabling DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Working knowledge of relational database technologies and data platforms from an infrastructure and scalability perspective.
• Strong understanding of enterprise and cloud networking concepts.
• Solid understanding of security principles, frameworks, and controls as they apply to cloud and infrastructure design.
• Experience designing and governing cloud-based AI platform infrastructure.
• Experience designing and governing API management infrastructure.

Skills

• Azure
• Hybrid environments
• Application platforms
• Middleware
• Virtualization
• Cloud infrastructure
• IaC
• IaaS
• PaaS
• Capacity planning
• Platform design
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux/UNIX
• Red Hat
• AIX
• DevOps
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure automation
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Relational database technologies
• Data platforms
• OLTP
• Data warehousing architectures
• Enterprise networking
• Cloud networking
• Routing
• Segmentation
• Load balancing
• Secure connectivity
• Security principles
• Security frameworks
• Security controls
• Cloud-based AI platform infrastructure
• Azure AI platforms
• Landing zone integration
• Network isolation
• Identity and RBAC
• Platform security controls
• Model governance enablement
• Operational monitoring
• API management infrastructure
• Azure API Management
• Security
• Identity integration
• Network architecture
• Resiliency
• Scalability
• Observability
• Operational supportability

Location

• Toronto, ON

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior
• At least ten years in IT
• Minimum of five years in senior IT technical role

Education Level

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Benefits

• Competitive discretionary bonus
• Market leading RRSP match program
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Maternity/Parental top-up
• Generous vacation policy and personal days
• Virtual events
• Professional development and comprehensive Career Development program

About the Company

• EQ, formerly Equitable Bank, is Canada's Challenger Bank™, serving nearly 4 million Canadians with a wide variety of financial services.
• Founded in 1970, EQ challenges banking conventions with smarter, faster, and more connected financial experiences.
• EQB Inc. (TSX: EQB) is the parent company of Equitable Bank, the country's seventh-largest Schedule I bank by assets.
• EQB Inc. manages approximately $150 billion in combined assets under management and administration.

Equal Opportunity

• 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 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.