Senior Infrastructure Architect
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect within the Infrastructure and Operations team in the Information Technology and Services (ITS) unit, based at BIS Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. This is a 3-year fixed-term contract. The BIS can hire globally and welcomes applications from candidates of all nationalities; relocation support is available for the successful candidate and dependent family members.
Purpose of the job: Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable and cost-efficient architecture across diverse infrastructure domains (compute, storage, networks, cloud, AI). Define target-state architectures, establish reusable patterns, and provide governance and technical leadership to ensure alignment with business priorities, compliance and resilience.
Principal accountabilities:
* Own end-to-end infrastructure architecture for complex, multi-domain initiatives, defining reference designs and reviewing designs against non-functional requirements.
* Author and maintain infrastructure policies, standards, reference architectures and roadmaps.
* Engage senior business and technology stakeholders to align infrastructure design with priorities, risk appetite and SLAs, RPO/RTO and compliance requirements.
* Define secure-by-design and resilience patterns (segmentation, encryption, zero-trust) and validate disaster recovery and backup strategies.
* Provide design authority across delivery teams and steer non-functional testing strategies.
* Lead evaluation and selection of infrastructure technologies, proofs of concept and rationalisation recommendations.
* Drive simplification through standardisation, consolidation and decommissioning; maintain visibility of platform costs.
Qualifications and experience:
* Demonstrated expertise architecting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises data centers, private and public cloud, including virtualization, containers, networks and storage.
* Strong understanding of cloud-native and container platforms (including OpenShift), infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code.
* Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and translate stakeholder requirements into clear architecture outcomes.
* Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior management.
* Experience designing infrastructure for AI use cases; banking or financial services experience is a plus.
The BIS's corporate language is English. The BIS offers hybrid working, a competitive compensation and benefits package, and an international working environment.
Application deadline: 05 Nov 2026
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the BIS Workday careers portal by 5 November 2026 (end of day).
https://bis.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/BIS-Headquarters-Basel/Senior-Infrastructure-Architect_JR100471-1/apply