Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

Overview
The Strategic Technology Group (STG) unit at Infosys is designed for power programmers and senior technologists who want to go beyond traditional development roles and take on complex, large-scale technology challenges.The STG unit brings together Specialist Programmers, Senior Technologists, and Technical Leaders who possess deep expertise across software design and development, cloud-native architectures, enterprise platforms, data engineering, and emerging technologies, including generative AI and agentic AI.Members of the STG unit play a strategic role in shaping technology direction, solving complex business challenges, and delivering resilient, high-quality outcomes. They are expected to demonstrate strong technical depth, sound architectural judgment, and hands-on leadership, while mentoring teams and influencing best practices across programs.The STG unit emphasizes software development excellence, innovation, and continuous upskilling. It offers experienced talent the opportunity to work on transformational initiatives, engage closely with stakeholders, and grow as trusted technology leaders within Infosys’ global delivery ecosystem.
In the assigned Job Role of Architecture Principal, your Area Of Responsibility will be as below:
Partner with business stakeholders and oversee requirement elicitation process, to align requirements with immediate and prospective market demands.
Drive scalable and secure architectural designs ensuring compliance with architectural standards, integration of appropriate security measures and smooth integration with existing systems.
Lead and anchor solution evaluation efforts, assessing the client’s existing landscape to recommend integrated, stable, and future-proof solutions. Develop a strategic roadmap for future transformation and communicate the same to client stakeholders.
Create roadmap for integration of architectural solutions basis system risk landscape and define short, medium and long-term milestones, ensuring alignment with organization's overall technology and business goals.
Define strategies for large-scale transitions and modernization initiatives.
Act as an advisor to technical teams and client stakeholders. Build client relationships, assess client feedback obtained by the team and provide insights on plans to be actioned upon basis the feedback.
Drive performance optimization initiatives for the enterprise architectural landscape and provide insights on technological risk areas and related mitigation strategies.
Oversee the creation and dissemination of critical organizational technical knowledge.
Contribute to proposals and go-to market materials by collaborating with sales teams and provide insights on specialized methodologies and architectural solutions during client engagement.
Represent the organization in industry forums and contribute to professional publications.
Your Contribution To The Team
A strategic vision for aligning technical solutions with evolving business goals and industry trends
Expertise in designing scalable and secure architectures while ensuring compliance with standards.
A proactive approach to risk management and solution-oriented problem-solving.
Proficiency in creating, managing and disseminating technical insights and frameworks.
Strong communication and advisory skills to build trust and engagement.
The ability to define future-state roadmaps and modernization strategies.
Passion to represent the organization in industry forums and contribute to professional publications.
Required Skill And Experience
Experience in Infrastructure and Digital Architecture, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operability of enterprise systems.
Knowledge of the full SDLC, including infrastructure-as-code lifecycle and production operations (build, deploy, run, observe, improve).
Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies, including DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering practices.
Experience in Infrastructure-First and AI-First architecture across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), service mesh, CI/CD, observability (metrics, logs, traces), site reliability engineering (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response), AIOps, and Agentic AI implementation for operations and self-healing systems.
Should have played the role of Lead Architect, SRE Lead, or Infrastructure Architecture Lead in the past
Should have strong command of resilience engineering, capacity planning, performance engineering, disaster recovery and business continuity, chaos engineering, and FinOps for cloud cost optimization.
Should have technology breadth across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure-as-code ( for e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi), container platforms (for e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift), observability stacks (for e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk), CI/CD toolchains (for e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD), networking (SDN, load balancing, DNS, CDN), and security (zero trust, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management), with depth in several of these areas to drive end-to-end infrastructure solutions and implementations.
Should have working awareness of the application and data layers that run on the platform, and of how reliability and performance choices affect end users.
Should have a very good understanding of EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and operational frameworks (e.g., ITIL, Google SRE practices) and should have applied one or more of them in practice.
Preferred Skill And Experience
Should have high level business and process understanding of one or more industries
Should have personally led & delivered one or more digital transformation program (size > $10m) successfully with tangible business outcomes
Should have very good communication and articulation skills and is able to communicate with right level of abstraction and detail when interacting with CXO, Middle mgmt. and developers
Should be able to do rough order of magnitude estimation and costing to determine the high-level TCO for large programs
Should have deep technology expertise in one or more areas (Digital/Mobility, Customer/User experience, API and Micro services, Search, Content Management, DAM, Commerce, CRM, Order management, Analytics, Cloud and SAAS/PAAS platforms) and should be able to have deep dive discussions with SMEs in this space
Should have zero distance to code and be able review the detailed design, code, configuration, data model and provide specific inputs to the architects and developers
Should have good understanding and exposure to the products and platforms relevant to digital transformation
Should have good understanding of the leading open-source technologies, frameworks and tools in the market
Should have good understanding of leading No SQL databases
Should be able to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary
Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment.
Additional Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
This position may require relocation and/or travel to work/project location.
Candidates authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role now or in the future.
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Infosys employee you are also eligible for the following benefits:
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness , Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
About Us
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
EEO
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Salary : $105,000