- 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 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.
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.
