IT Senior Architect – Windows Server & Infrastructure

Accountabilities:

• • Own and evolve the enterprise architecture for Windows Server and core infrastructure platforms, ensuring alignment with strategic business and technology objectives.
  • Define and maintain technology roadmaps covering server platforms, identity, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, and datacenter infrastructure.
  • Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, design principles, implementation guidelines, and governance practices.
  • Serve as the design authority for strategic infrastructure projects, reviewing and approving solution designs and major infrastructure changes.
  • Define technical standards across Microsoft Windows Server, identity federation and SSO, DNS/DHCP, Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure, Veeam backup and disaster recovery, file and print services, virtualization, datacenter hosting, and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Govern outsourced infrastructure services and work closely with managed service providers to ensure delivery against architecture, security, quality, cost, and compliance expectations.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for infrastructure modernization, standardization, consolidation, simplification, and automation.
  • Ensure infrastructure architecture is aligned with cybersecurity requirements, hardening standards, enterprise architecture principles, and hybrid-cloud objectives.
  • Manage architectural risks, technical escalations, technical debt, and infrastructure-related dependencies.
  • Participate in architecture review boards, governance forums, critical incident management, and problem management activities where specialist architectural input is required.
  • Maintain accurate architecture documentation, technical decision records, reference designs, and knowledge-sharing materials.
  • Identify cost optimization opportunities and drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across infrastructure services.
  • Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to balance requirements, risk, cost, performance, resilience, and long-term technology strategy.

  Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, enterprise architecture, or senior infrastructure engineering roles.
  • Proven experience designing and governing enterprise-scale hybrid infrastructure environments within complex global IT organizations.
  • Demonstrated experience managing or governing outsourced infrastructure services and working effectively with managed service providers.
  • Strong track record delivering infrastructure transformation, modernization, standardization, or consolidation initiatives.
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server environments, hybrid-cloud architecture, infrastructure security, and system hardening.
  • Solid understanding of virtualization technologies, particularly VMware and VxRail-based environments.
  • Strong knowledge of automation and scripting, particularly PowerShell, along with high-availability and fault-tolerant infrastructure design principles.
  • Familiarity with enterprise infrastructure services including identity and SSO, DNS/DHCP, SQL Server, backup and disaster recovery, file services, datacenter platforms, and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Working knowledge of ITIL processes and enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound architectural decisions in complex environments.
  • Strategic mindset and strong ownership, with the ability to balance business requirements, security, risk, cost, and technology considerations.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Strong documentation skills and a structured approach to maintaining architecture standards, decisions, and technical guidance.
  • Results-oriented approach with a commitment to quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
  • Fluent business-level English.

  Benefits:

  • Remote working opportunity in India.
  • Freedom with responsibility, supporting flexibility and a healthy balance between professional and personal life.
  • Opportunity to work within a global, international technology environment.
  • Exposure to complex enterprise infrastructure and large-scale transformation initiatives.
  • Significant autonomy and ownership over architecture strategy, standards, and technology roadmaps.
  • Opportunities for continuous professional and personal development.
  • Collaboration with international teams and external technology partners.
  • Opportunity to influence modernization, security, resilience, and cost-optimization initiatives across core infrastructure.