Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect – Vancity

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Your Role in Supporting Our Members

Vancity is modernizing its technology landscape, and we’re looking for a seasoned Infrastructure & Solutions Architect to build secure, scalable, and future‑ready platforms that power exceptional member experiences. If you excel at designing resilient cloud and hybrid architectures, shaping technology standards, and influencing cross‑functional delivery at scale, this role offers impact, visibility, and challenge.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assess our infrastructure landscape to identify modernization opportunities aligned with the Technology Roadmap.
• Review and advise on infrastructure change requests to ensure compliance with architectural standards, security requirements, and long‑term platform direction.
• Provide expert technical guidance to Enterprise Service Delivery, Cloud Engineering, SRE and other ITS teams.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to ensure infrastructure designs directly support organizational goals and strategic priorities.
• Support projects requiring architectural dispensation, ensuring decisions remain aligned with the roadmap and risk posture.
• Develop forward‑looking strategies for secure, scalable and adaptive infrastructure solutions.
• Research emerging technologies, especially within Azure, hybrid cloud, and integration platforms, and assess their value and impact on Vancity.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and innovation within our infrastructure architecture practices.

What You’ll Bring

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of hands‑on experience in infrastructure or solutions architecture in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Azure cloud services, hybrid infrastructure patterns, and modern architectural frameworks.
• Proven ability to design and align technology solutions to business strategy and operational needs.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to simplify complexity, influence decisions, and collaborate across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, with a focus on innovation, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Familiarity with financial‑sector security, compliance, and regulatory expectations (PCI‑DSS, SOC2, etc.).
• Professional certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, TOGAF, or ITIL are strong assets.

Technical Requirements (Deep Expertise Expected)

• Azure Architecture (expert level): Experience designing and delivering solutions using Azure Landing Zones, Azure AD/Entra ID, Azure Networking (VNETs, Firewalls, Private Endpoints, Application Gateways), Azure Storage, Key Vault, App Services, AKS, Azure SQL and Event‑Driven architectures.
• Cloud Governance & Security: Hands‑on experience implementing Azure Policy, RBAC, Conditional Access, Zero Trust principles, Managed Identities, enterprise tagging strategy, cost controls, and governance frameworks aligned with CAF.
• Hybrid Infrastructure Expertise: Understanding of hybrid network connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN gateways), identity federation (ADFS, SAML, OAuth), certificate services, DNS, and integrations between on‑premises and Azure resources.
• Resilience & Reliability Engineering: Architecting for HA/DR using availability zones, redundancy patterns, backup strategies, monitoring and alerting frameworks, and performance engineering.
• Automation & IaC: Deep experience with Terraform, Bicep, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and automated deployment pipelines for cloud infrastructure.
• Networking Fundamentals: Enterprise network design, segmentation, firewalls, load balancers, routing, DNS, TLS, and secure network patterns in cloud.
• Monitoring & Observability: Designing observability patterns using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Managed Grafana, dashboards, alert rules, and distributed tracing.