Purpose of the Job

The Infrastructure Domain Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously evolving the organization’s Infrastructure Architecture Domain, ensuring that infrastructure solutions across on‑premises, cloud, network, identity, and security domains are secure, scalable, resilient, cost‑effective, and aligned with Enterprise Architecture direction and business objectives.

The overall purpose of this role is to:

• Own and maintain the Infrastructure Architecture Domain
• Ensure consistency, quality, and compliance of infrastructure designs
• Bridge business requirements, application architecture, and infrastructure capabilities
• Reduce technical debt, risk, and architectural fragmentation
• Support strategic initiatives such as cloud adoption, modernization, and resilience

Job Description

Customer & Business Enablement

• Ensure infrastructure architectures enable reliable, secure, and high‑performing digital services aligned with business and IT strategy.
• Translate business and application requirements into fit‑for‑purpose infrastructure architecture designs.

Infrastructure Architecture & Design Authority

• Define, own, and maintain infrastructure architecture standards, principles, and reference architectures in alignment with Enterprise Architecture guardrails.
• Design and govern end‑to‑end infrastructure solutions covering compute, storage, networking, cloud platforms, identity, and security.

Technology Strategy & Roadmaps

• Contribute to infrastructure technology strategy in partnership with Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure leadership.
• Develop and maintain domain‑level infrastructure architecture roadmaps covering cloud, data centers, networks, and core platforms.

Cloud, Hybrid & Platform Architecture

• Define architecture patterns for public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Establish reference designs for landing zones, connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and governance.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Embed security‑by‑design and compliance‑by‑default principles into all infrastructure architectures.
• Ensure infrastructure designs comply with security policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.

Operational Excellence & Resilience

• Design infrastructure architectures that support high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Define architectural patterns for backup, recovery, monitoring, and observability.

Governance, Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Act as the infrastructure architecture authority in design forums, governance boards, and technical reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architects, Application Architects, Solution Architects, and Engineering teams.

Job Requirements - Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7 - 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, design, or architecture roles.
• Strong hands‑on background across infrastructure technologies with an architectural mindset.
• Proven experience designing and reviewing complex infrastructure solutions.
• Solid understanding of:
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, OCI or equivalent)
  • Networking, security, identity, and access management
  • Virtualization, data centers, and hybrid environments
  • Infrastructure automation and IaC (Terraform, Ansible, ARM, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience working with enterprise platforms (e.g., SAP landscapes, Microsoft ecosystems).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure Transformation Projects and Cloud Migrations

Leadership Behaviors

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