Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Management Level EEquiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries. EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide. Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK. Role summary: The Senior Technical Architect is part of a team responsible for technical leadership, governance, and infrastructure designs for EQ projects. The role ensures that technical systems and infrastructure are designed to support business requirements, technical and security standards, and technology strategy. Applicants should have detailed knowledge of IT Infrastructure, covering public cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and on premises data centre solutions. Prior experience as a Technical Architect is essential, along with strong skills in engaging stakeholders, collaborating across a range of technical and business disciplines to agree solutions, and presenting technical proposals and designs to review boards. Core Duties/Responsibilities: Maintaining engagement with the wider Equiniti environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies. Work across a range of EQ projects including data centre to AWS migration, platform upgrades, and new product implementations. Act as a key resource in the project lifecycle, driving initiation, reviewing requirements, completing the infrastructure design, and providing technical oversight for implementation teams. Support project initiation by providing cost and complexity assessments, engaging with stakeholders, and helping to define the scope of activities. Review requirements and undertake discovery activities to propose technical solutions that meet business needs while meeting technical standards for quality, supportability, and cost. Produce high quality technical designs and support the creation of build documentation providing effective technical solutions to EQ business requirements. Participate in architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure architecture team across multiple projects. Contribute to knowledge management by adding to and supporting the maintenance of infrastructure architecture artifact repositories. Contribute to the definition and maintenance of architectural, security and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice. Promote improvements to processes and standards within architecture teams, and the wider technology function. Skills, Knowledge & Experience: Skilled communicator, comfortable engaging a range of stakeholders, and capable of understanding business requirements and translating them into technical solutions. Experience creating high quality multi-tiered infrastructure designs for new and existing application services in accordance with defined standards. Experienced at providing cost estimates for on-premises and public cloud solutions. Experience across a range of data centre technologies such as server, storage, networks, virtualisation solutions. Experience of designing infrastructure solutions for public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure). Experience of working with complex network topologies and familiarity with a range of network technologies across on-premises and cloud environments. A track record of successfully achieving project deadlines, budgets, and meeting quality standards. Technical certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks a distinct advantage (AWS / Azure Solution Architect, CCNA, M365, TOGAF, Prince2, Agile). Technical Ability: In depth experience of proposing and designing technical solutions in across a wide range of technologies in an Enterprise environment. Core Microsoft technologies such as: Active Directory, Exchange, Hyper-V, M365, SharePoint, SQL, Windows Server. Public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Deployment, configuration management and monitoring systems such as Terraform, Puppet, and New Relic. High availability and load balancing including Microsoft clustering and hardware load balancers. Physical infrastructure such as data centres, server hardware, hypervisors, SAN storage solutions, and network infrastructure. Infrastructure security platforms, tooling, and vulnerability assessment. Secure File Transfer Platforms such as Progress MoveIT. Familiarity with designing solutions to support a range of commercially available and bespoke applications. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.