EB Infrastructure Architect – Toronto

Join a Challenger. 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.

The Work

The Infrastructure Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and evolving the Bank's 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.

Core 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.

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.

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 cross‑functional 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.

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 a 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, with the ability to design scalable and resilient runtime environments.
• Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure: Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies, including capacity planning and platform design.
• Containers & Orchestration: Practical experience designing and supporting containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Operating Systems: Deep understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, including performance, security, and lifecycle management.
• DevOps & Automation: Experience supporting or enabling DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code approaches.
• Data Platforms (Architectural Level): Working knowledge of relational database technologies and data platforms, including OLTP and data warehousing architectures.
• Networking & Connectivity: Strong understanding of enterprise and cloud networking concepts.
• 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 cloud‑based AI platform infrastructure.
• API Management Platforms: Experience designing and governing API management infrastructure.

What we offer:

• 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 experience

The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from EQ Bank’s additional office space located at 2200-25 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 when we honour and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives.