Sr. Infrastructure Architect

The IT Architect serves as the senior technical expert responsible for designing and guiding resilient, scalable, and secure enterprise infrastructure across on‑premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role leads strategic architecture decisions, mentors teams, and drives modernization through automation, improved performance, and reduced operational overhead.

Client Details

Canadian industrial manufacturing company

Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain multi-year infrastructure architecture roadmaps focused on resiliency, automation, self-service capabilities, and reducing operational overhead across systems and projects.
• Provide architectural leadership across enterprise infrastructure domains, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with corporate standards and long‑term strategy.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team to provide visibility into the infrastructure domain and enable effective enterprise‑level planning and alignment.
• Architect and guide solutions that improve redundancy, performance, and availability for business‑critical platforms and applications (e.g., customer‑facing ordering and sales systems).
• Contribute to architectural decisions related to application delivery, enterprise connectivity, and platform integration across distributed and hybrid environments.
• Participate in architectural discussions supporting cloud‑native and hybrid initiatives, ensuring alignment across infrastructure, security, and development practices.
• Lead technology evaluations and proof‑of‑concepts; recommend future‑state infrastructure improvements and modernization opportunities.
• Support enterprise disaster recovery and backup architecture by ensuring alignment with broader infrastructure standards and target‑state architecture.
• Contribute to infrastructure architecture governance, principles, standards, and compliance across the organization.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex architectural risks impacting availability, security, or operational stability.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to identify opportunities where infrastructure can act as a strategic partner, fostering strong bi‑directional communication and trust.
• Contribute to IT vendor contract negotiations by assessing operational requirements, analyzing vendor proposals, and ensuring solutions provide optimal value within budgetary constraints.
• Mentor team members by reinforcing strategic and operational thinking, encouraging proactive problem‑solving rather than reactive, ticket‑driven behavior.
• Guide teams in reducing operational noise (e.g., ticket volume and reactive support) through architectural improvements, automation, and self‑service solutions.
• Provide architectural oversight for projects and guide technical workstreams as required.
• Maintain clear and current architecture documentation, diagrams, and reference materials to support operational clarity and long‑term planning.

Profile

A successful candidate for this role is an experienced infrastructure architect who excels in designing resilient, scalable, and secure enterprise systems across on‑premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. They are a strong technical leader with deep expertise in VMware, Azure, networking, automation, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code, paired with excellent communication skills, the ability to influence across teams, and a proactive mindset focused on modernization, stability, and reducing operational noise.

Job Offer

• High‑level influence and impact: They'll shape the long‑term infrastructure strategy across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments, directly influencing critical business‑wide technology decisions.
• Opportunities for leadership and growth: The role positions them as the senior technical authority, leading cross‑domain initiatives, mentoring teams, and driving modernization and automation efforts.
• Challenging, meaningful work: They'll tackle complex architectural problems, improve system resilience and performance, and reduce operational noise through innovation.
• Visibility with business and IT leadership: Frequent collaboration with executives and enterprise architects enhances their strategic exposure and career trajectory.
• A chance to modernize a core environment: They'll guide future‑state architecture, evaluate new technologies, and lead transformation in a manufacturing setting-work that is both impactful and future‑focused.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class otherwise protected under applicable human rights legislation. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled and all other qualified applicants