Senior Technology Architect - Hybrid Infrastructure & Cloud

Position Summary: The Senior Technology Architect will provide technical and architectural leadership across a complex enterprise environment spanning on-premises infrastructure and AWS cloud services. The role will define technology direction, evaluate solutions, guide modernization and cloud adoption, and ensure architectures meet requirements for security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and operational supportability. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in the financial services sector.

Key Functions and Responsibilities:

• Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures for enterprise infrastructure and platforms.

• Lead architecture reviews for new solutions, infrastructure changes, modernization initiatives, and cloud migrations.

• Develop technology standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, and architecture decision records.

• Design and review hybrid architectures integrating on-premises environments with AWS.

• Provide architectural guidance across (list is not exhaustive):

• RHEL, Windows Server

• IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server

• IBM MQ and enterprise integration

• WAN, LAN, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and network security

• Infrastructure security, identity, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery

• Evaluate technology alternatives and provide recommendations based on risk, security, resiliency, performance, cost, and maintainability.

• Identify technical debt, lifecycle risks, single points of failure, and opportunities for modernization and simplification.

• Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, networking, database, middleware, and operations teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Communicate complex technical concepts and recommendations to both technical teams and senior leadership.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience, including significant architecture or technical leadership experience.

• Strong experience designing hybrid on-premises and AWS environments

• Strong knowledge of AWS, RHEL, Windows Server, DB2, SQL Server, IBM MQ, networking, and enterprise security.

• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, security architecture, and technology modernization.

• Strong systems-thinking, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.