Infrastructure Architect (12 months contract)

Join a Challenger

At EQ were remaking banking so every Canadian gets ahead every day. Serving nearly 4 million Canadians from coast to coast we offer a wide variety of financial services from banking and lending to trust and credit union solutions.

Weve been at this since 1970 challenging the conventions of traditional banking with smarter faster and more connected financial experiences.

Whats kept us moving The people behind it all: challengers who ask better questions push back on old assumptions and look for a better way forward.

If youre driven to help reshape how banking works for Canadians and the businesses that power our economy this could be your next big opportunity.

We cant wait to get to know you!

The Work

The Infrastructure Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and evolving the Banks cloudcentric infrastructure platforms. This role focuses on the design and governance of scalable secure and resilient infrastructure across public cloud hybrid and supporting onprem environments. The Infrastructure Architect ensures cloud and infrastructure solutions are aligned with business objectives IT strategy and operational requirements.

Serving as the architectural authority for infrastructure the role translates business application and operational needs into cloudforward designs that emphasize automation elasticity security and cost optimization. The Infrastructure Architect establishes cloud architecture standards reference designs and patterns that enable consistent adoption of cloud services while supporting reliability performance and compliance requirements.

Working closely with the Director of Infrastructure Architecture VP of Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) and technology leadership the Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in shaping cloud strategy and major technology investments. This includes evaluating cloud services and platforms defining targetstate cloud and hybrid architectures developing roadmaps for cloud adoption and modernization and producing clear actionable architecture documentation and recommendations.

In addition the Infrastructure Architect acts as a trusted advisor to infrastructure platform and application teams providing guidance on cloud best practices platform selection and architectural tradeoffs. Through collaboration and influence the role helps drive consistent efficient and sustainable cloud and infrastructure solutions across the organization.

The Core Responsibilities!

General Responsibilities

• 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 cloudcentric 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 organizations infrastructure and cloud strategy roadmaps and futurestate direction.
• Architect and govern enterprise AI platform foundations including secure cloud landing zones networking identity rolebased access control and operational guardrails for AI workloads. Ensure AI platforms are designed to meet nonfunctional requirements related to security scalability resiliency observability cost management and regulatory compliance.

Standards & Governance

• 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 nonfunctional requirements for API platforms including API management gateways network placement identity integration security controls resiliency patterns monitoring and lifecycle management.

Leadership Development and Continuous Improvement

• 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 crossfunctional 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.

Lets Talk About You!

Education and Experience:

• 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.

Technical Proficiencies:

• Cloud Platforms & Services: Strong experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure and supporting hybrid environments.
• Application & Platform Infrastructure: Solid understanding of application platforms and middleware (e.g. application servers web servers platform services) with the ability to design scalable and resilient runtime environments.
• Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure: Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g. IaC IaaS PaaS) including capacity planning and platform design.
• Containers & Orchestration: Practical experience designing and supporting containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes including platform architecture and operational considerations.
• Operating Systems: Deep understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems (e.g. Red Hat AIX) including performance security and lifecycle management.
• DevOps & Automation: Experience supporting or enabling DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines infrastructure automation and infrastructureascode approaches.
• Data Platforms (Architectural Level): Working knowledge of relational database technologies and data platforms including OLTP and data warehousing architectures from an infrastructure and scalability perspective.
• Networking & Connectivity: Strong understanding of enterprise and cloud networking concepts including routing segmentation load balancing and secure connectivity.
• Security Architecture: Solid understanding of security principles frameworks and controls as they apply to cloud and infrastructure design.
• AI Platform Infrastructure: Experience designing and governing cloudbased AI platform infrastructure (e.g. Azure AI platforms) including landing zone integration network isolation identity and RBAC platform security controls model governance enablement and operational monitoring.
• API Management Platforms:
  Experience designing and governing API management infrastructure (e.g. Azure API Management) with a focus on security identity integration network architecture resiliency scalability observability and operational supportability.

What we offer For full-time permanent roles Competitive discretionary bonus Market leading RRSP match program Medical dental vision life and disability benefits Employee Share Purchase Plan Maternity/Parental top-up while you care for your little one Generous vacation policy and personal days Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues Professional development and comprehensive Career Development program A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experienceThe incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from EQ Banks additional office space located at2200-25 Ontario Street Toronto ON.

Equity Diversity & Inclusion

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. Were equally committed to supporting your growth both professionally and personally.

We provide a barrierfree 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 countrys seventh-largest Schedule I bank by assets which operates EQ Bank Canadas 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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