Infrastructure Architect

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain infrastructure architecture, standards, principles, and guidelines.
• Design cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure architectures.
• Define compute, storage, network, and connectivity architecture.
• Define high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience architectures.
• Define infrastructure capacity, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Design infrastructure environments that support enterprise applications and platforms.
• Define infrastructure integration, connectivity, and communication requirements.
• Review infrastructure designs and major projects and provide architecture recommendations.
• Assess current infrastructure against target architecture and identify gaps and modernization requirements.
• Identify infrastructure risks, dependencies, constraints, and potential impacts.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Network, Cloud, DevOps, Application, and Technology teams.
• Support infrastructure modernization, transformation, cloud adoption, and optimization initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of overall experience in infrastructure, cloud, technology architecture, or related technical roles.
• Significant infrastructure architecture experience in large and complex enterprise environments.
• Experience in banking or financial services is highly preferred.
• Experience working in a SAMA-regulated environment is advantageous.
• Strong experience in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure architecture.
• Strong knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure technologies.
• Strong experience designing high-availability, disaster-recovery, resilience, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, connectivity, and integration requirements.
• Experience working with DevOps, Cybersecurity, Network, Cloud, and Application teams.
• Relevant infrastructure or cloud architecture certifications are preferred.

Architecture and governance

• Maintain infrastructure architecture documentation, diagrams, standards, and decision records.
• Ensure compliance with approved Enterprise Architecture, technology standards, security requirements, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure standards, architecture governance, and technology lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.