Associate, Technical Architect

Purpose of Job

Step into a pivotal role where architecture meets innovation. As a Technology Architect in our Cloud and DevOps squads, you’ll shape the future of the Bank’s technology estate by designing scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that deliver real business impact. From Azure to Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines to Infrastructure as Code, you’ll guide engineering teams to bring elegant, robust designs to life. This is your chance to define how enterprise platforms evolve, ensuring agility, resilience, and modernisation across both cloud and on-premise environments.

You’ll thrive at the crossroads of strategy and delivery, influencing enterprise-wide decisions while working hands-on with cutting-edge tools and practices. Collaborating with architects, product teams, and senior stakeholders, you’ll translate vision into actionable designs, champion innovation, and drive adoption of best practices across Cloud and DevOps. If you’re ready to make your mark as a trusted leader in shaping next-generation platforms, with the autonomy to innovate and the scope to transform, this is the opportunity to do it.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Responsible for the Architecture of technologies across Infrastructure Squads and their integration within the wider Platform Engineering.

Responsible for the support, design and integration of infrastructure platform technologies as part of the Platform Architecture.

Ensures effective operation and alignment of Enterprise infrastructure services, including compute, storage, networking, hypervisors, operating systems and container platforms.

Technology to enable squads to adopt DevSecOps tooling and practices to optimise on-premises workloads.

Supports the implementation and management of enterprise backup, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and workload availability solutions.

Maintains and develops observability platforms for monitoring, logging and forecasting across infrastructure services.

Supports the integration of on-premises platforms with hybrid cloud environments.

Responsible for designing and implementing compute and data protection platforms, in line with enterprise strategy.

Operates without supervision to manage complexity holistically, ensuring infrastructure platforms are secure by design, resilient, scalable and cost-effective.

Design and implementation of Compute Infrastructure and Data Protection platforms.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Experience in designing, implementing and supporting on-premises data centre architectures.

Proficient in designing, implementing and supporting compute infrastructure (e.g., physical servers, hypervisors), enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, object) and cloud-native services.

Experience in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise backup and data protection platforms.

Experience in designing, implementing and supporting high availability Infrastructure architectures, disaster recovery and enterprise-scale

Understanding of infrastructure management principles, observability, capacity forecasting and resource optimisation practices. 

Knowledge of performance monitoring approaches.

Experience working collaboratively with Managed Service Providers and Professional Service Partners.

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. 

The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.  As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).