Solutions Architect (Infrastructure)

In this role, you will be responsible for acting as the solution architecture extension of Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure, translating enterprise conceptual, logical, and high-level physical infrastructure designs into detailed physical design guidance for hybrid environments spanning Azure cloud and co-location data centers. Guides and supports engineering teams in delivering infrastructure solutions aligned with EA-defined architecture standards, hybrid patterns, and cloud strategy, ensuring consistency across platforms and workloads, including AI and digital services. Role & Responsibility:

• Provides architecture guidance for hybrid infrastructure design, including cloud/on-prem integration, connectivity, and workload placement strategies.
• Scalability and performance optimization, ensuring infrastructure can support dynamic workloads and growth.
• Resilience and reliability patterns, including high availability, failovers, and disaster recovery aligned with SRE principles.
• Networking and platform integration, ensuring secure, performant connectivity across distributed environments.
• Cost efficiency and capacity management, aligned with enterprise FinOps and infrastructure optimization strategies Supports the adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLIs/SLOs and reliability design considerations.
• Observability, monitoring, and telemetry integration.
• Automation and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Operational readiness and recoverability frameworks Partners with engineering teams throughout the SDLC-from design through production, providing design oversight, guiding implementation decisions, and ensuring adherence to enterprise standards for scalability, resilience, security, and operability.
• Collaborates closely with EA, platform engineering, and SRE teams to ensure consistent adoption of enterprise infrastructure patterns, while feeding implementation insights back into continuous improvement of architecture standards.

• Bachelors degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 year’’s higher education and/or relevant work experience
• 7 or more years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns
• Working knowledge of architectural frameworks
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools
• Work experience in software engineering, software delivery and/or solution architecture

Ideal qualifications preferred:

• Graduate degree in business or technical discipline
• Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design and roadmap planning

Imagine Staffing is recruiting for a Solutions Architect (Infrastructure) on behalf of our client, a leading financial institution in Buffalo, NY, serving individuals, businesses, and communities across the eastern United States. Known for its strong regional presence, commitment to community engagement, and focus on long-term customer relationships, the organization offers a stable and collaborative work environment with opportunities for growth.