Senior Solution Designer to create Infrastructure design and solutioning for multiple Technology Operations and Application Development initiatives - 99316

Request ID: 99316

Duration: 12 months

Remote/Hybrid: Hybrid every Tuesday and third Friday

Office Location: 81 Bay Street

Line of Business: Infrastructure Design Team

What the LOB does:

The Infrastructure Design Team sits within Technology Operations and is responsible for delivering end‑to‑end infrastructure design and implementation for Technology Operations (TO) and Application Development (AD) projects.

The team provides expertise in:

• Platform selection and sizing

• High availability and disaster recovery design

• Data management design

• Infrastructure migration planning

• Ensuring all solutions align with the bank's architecture, engineering standards, ISRM requirements, and operational needs

Job Description:

As a Solution Designer within the Infrastructure Design Team, you will work alongside Business & Technology partners to design and deliver infrastructure solutions that support the banks enterprise technology landscape. You will ensure that all engineering, security, operational, and architectural requirements are incorporated into the solution designs you deliver.

You’ll partner closely with project managers, application developers, architects, platform managers, security (ISRM), and engineering teams to design infrastructure that meets business needs, aligns with enterprise standards, and ensures reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of end‑to‑end infrastructure designs for TO and AD projects.

• Ensure all designs incorporate engineering, operational, architectural, and security requirements.

• Evaluate platform options, sizing, resiliency, disaster recovery, and data design requirements.

• Collaborate with SMEs across the organization to influence and recommend effective solutions.

• Engage with application developers and business partners to understand requirements and provide technical guidance.

• Support project implementations by helping resolve infrastructure design issues.

• Integrate infrastructure components to support application deployments.

• Partner with enterprise architecture, ISRM, platform managers, and engineering to ensure all standards and compliance requirements are met.

Infrastructure Solution Design

• Meet with requesters from Application Development to understand business needs

• Translate requests into comprehensive infrastructure designs including compute, storage, networking, middleware, database, cloud, and

· security elements

• Document itemized infrastructure components and associated cost estimates (storage, compute, services, etc.)

• Develop designs that incorporate all TO engineering, operational, architectural, and security constraints and requirements

• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory expectations

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Engage with engineering, security (ISRM), enterprise architecture, cloud SMEs, and platform managers to incorporate required expertise into the design

• Partner with project managers to support implementation phases

• Assist with integration challenges during infrastructure deployment

Client Engagement

• Provide guidance, technical advisory, and solution recommendations to AD teams

• Communicate complex technical topics clearly and concisely to non‑technical stakeholders

• Represent infrastructure considerations during requirement gathering and design review sessions

Must Have Requirement:

• 5+ years in Infrastructure solution design in enterprise environments (middleware, networking solutions)

• 5+ Years Security technology experience - firewalls, Akamai, and related security‑edge/perimeter services (this is core to this specific portfolio)

• 5+ years with data center infrastructure (Oracle, MS SQL, Databricks)

• Experience with cloud solutions (Azure preferred)

Broader Domain Knowledge (Additional Skills context):

• Oracle, SQL, Databricks (helpful for DB/integration understanding)

• Middleware fundamentals

• Networking basics (routing, subnets, firewalls, DNS, load balancing, etc.)

Nice to Have:

• Previous Banking experience (significant plus)

• Financial institution experience

• Exposure to Agile and DevOps delivery environments

• Experience working across multiple infrastructure disciplines

• Any security‑focused solutioning within enterprise-scale environments