First VP, Infrastructure Architect, Group Infrastructure and Platform Services

Responsibilities:

• Be part of Infrastructure Architecture Team Executes Infrastructure Architecture responsibilities to meet the regional business requirements of the Bank
• Engage and collaborate with engineering teams to establish and continuously improve regional IT Infrastructure Architectural Guidelines
• Work closely with both application and Infrastructure engineering teams as well as the capacity planners to provide architectural oversight and, ensure validity and alignment of solutions with Bank’s Infrastructure guidelines
• Review and build a strong understanding of the application before designing the right infrastructure solution
• Perform infrastructure project cost review prior to submission for budget approval
• Mentor and guide infrastructure teams to follow the agreed architecting guidelines

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 8 years of IT experience of which at least 3 years as an Infrastructure Architect managing multiple, medium to large cross-functional projects.
• Track record of successfully designing infrastructure architecture and review of complex IT systems deployed across countries.
• Strong experience in developing strategic roadmaps.
• Preferred IT Skill areas include: Cloud computing
• Container and Microservices technologies
• Virtualization technologies
• Message Queues and Streaming
• Compute, Storage and Networking Technologies
• Windows, Linux and other Unix flavours
• Backup and DR solutions and recovery technologies