Network Architect, Cloud

At EQ, we’re 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. We’ve been at this since 1970, challenging the conventions of traditional banking with smarter, faster, and more connected financial experiences. If you’re driven to help reshape how banking works for Canadians and the businesses that power our economy, this could be your next big opportunity. The Infrastructure Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and evolving the Banks 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. 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 cloud‑forward 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. 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 trade‑offs. Through collaboration and influence, the role helps drive consistent, efficient, and sustainable cloud and infrastructure solutions across the organization. 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. Security & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure cloud and infrastructure architectures comply with security, risk, and regulatory requirements, including OSFI guidelines . Regularly assess infrastructure and cloud architectures to identify gaps, inefficiencies, technical debt, and opportunities for improvement. 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. Define, maintain, and enforce cloud and infrastructure standards, architectural principles, and best practices. 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 non‑functional 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. 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. 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. 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: 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. IaC, Ia