Infrastructure Architect - Core Banking Platforms

DiceTek UAE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

TOGAF 9/10

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect

CKA (Certified Kubernetes Admin)

Oracle Exadata certification

Job summary

Dicetek LLC is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to design and define the technology infrastructure for a major core banking transformation in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The role emphasizes high availability, hybrid cloud, and secure, scalable infrastructure across on-premises data centers and Microsoft Azure.

The candidate should have 12-15 years of banking infrastructure experience, strong leadership in architecture, and expertise in enterprise storage, networking, and integration patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 12-15 years of experience in infrastructure engineering and architecture, with banking sector exposure.
• Proven architecture leadership in large-scale core banking transformations.
• Experience designing high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions for tier-1 banking systems.

Responsibilities

• Define target infra architecture across on-premise data centres and Azure.
• Design Azure landing zones and platform patterns for core banking apps and API platforms.
• Establish infra architecture standards for large-scale banking platforms.
• Develop reference architectures, high-/low-level designs and architecture decision records.
• Collaborate with vendors and global system integrators to align designs.

Skills

Hybrid cloud architecture

Azure cloud

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Linux infrastructure

VMware virtualization

Networking

Observability/Monitoring

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tooling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Oracle Data Guard/Exadata

Job description

Infrastructure Architect - Core Banking Platforms Job Snapshot - Role: Infrastructure Architect - Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Industry: IT and Services - Function: Software-System Architecture - Experience: 12-15 years - Job Type: Full Time - Work Arrangement: On-site

Dicetek LLC is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to design and define the technology infrastructure supporting a major core banking transformation in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The role requires extensive expertise in banking infrastructure architecture, hybrid cloud environments, enterprise platforms and high-availability system design. The Infrastructure Architect will establish the target architecture across on-premise data centres and Microsoft Azure, covering compute, storage, networking, container platforms, middleware and database infrastructure. Particular emphasis will be placed on designing resilient, scalable and secure infrastructure capable of supporting critical banking applications, integration services and event-driven workloads.

Job Details - Country: United Arab Emirates - City: Abu Dhabi - Industry: IT and Services - Function: Software-System Architecture - Salary: Not disclosed - Gender: No Preference - Candidate Nationality: Not specified - Job Type: Full Time - Work Arrangement: On-site

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Architecture and Design - Define the target infrastructure architecture across on-premise data centres and Microsoft Azure, incorporating compute, enterprise storage, networking, Kubernetes, OpenShift, middleware and database hosting.
• Design Azure landing zones and reusable infrastructure platform patterns for core banking applications, API platforms, Apache Kafka, observability services and enterprise integration workloads.
• Establish infrastructure architecture standards that support the operational and technical requirements of large-scale banking platforms.
• Develop reference architectures, high-level designs, low-level technical designs and architecture decision records to guide infrastructure implementation.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering teams, core banking technology vendors and global system integrators to align architecture designs with platform requirements.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

• Design high-availability infrastructure topologies, including active-active and active-passive configurations for critical banking systems.
• Define backup, recovery and disaster recovery architecture patterns appropriate to different service criticality levels.
• Establish recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) aligned with banking service requirements.
• Design resilient infrastructure environments capable of supporting tier-1 banking applications and essential transaction processing services.
• Incorporate availability, redundancy and recovery considerations into infrastructure architecture decisions.

Hybrid Cloud and Enterprise Platforms

• Design infrastructure solutions spanning traditional data centre environments and Azure cloud services.
• Apply VMware virtualisation and container orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, within enterprise infrastructure designs.
• Define enterprise storage architecture using SAN, NAS and object storage technologies.
• Design infrastructure hosting patterns for Oracle database platforms, including Oracle RAC, Data Guard and Exadata.
• Address data centre and cloud networking requirements, load balancing and security zoning within the target infrastructure architecture.
• Incorporate Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and continuous integration and deployment practices into infrastructure delivery patterns.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Bachelor 's or Master 's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 12-15 years of experience in infrastructure engineering and architecture, including significant experience within the banking sector.
• Demonstrated architecture leadership in a large-scale core banking transformation programme.
• Proven experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for tier-1 banking systems.
• Experience collaborating with core banking technology vendors and global system integrators.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture and the technical requirements of mission-critical banking environments.

Technical Expertise

• Hybrid cloud infrastructure architecture, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred.
• VMware virtualisation technologies.
• Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
• Linux infrastructure environments.
• Enterprise storage technologies, including SAN, NAS and object storage.

Database and Networking Infrastructure

• Oracle database infrastructure architecture.
• Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC).
• Oracle Data Guard.
• Oracle Exadata.
• Data centre and cloud networking.
• Load balancing and network security zoning.

Infrastructure Automation and Operations

• Terraform and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code.
• GitOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability and infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Capacity management technologies and practices.

Banking Architecture Knowledge

• Understanding of Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN)-aligned architectures.
• Familiarity with API-led integration architecture.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience designing infrastructure to support core banking systems and their dependent technology platforms.

Preferred Professional Certifications

• TOGAF 9 or TOGAF 10.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Red Hat OpenShift certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Oracle Exadata certification.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certification.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial banking infrastructure architecture experience, strong technical design capabilities and the ability to lead architectural decisions across complex hybrid technology environments. Success in this position requires a thorough understanding of infrastructure resilience, cloud and data centre integration, database hosting architecture and the technical dependencies of modern core banking platforms. The Infrastructure Architect should be capable of translating demanding banking system requirements into practical, well-documented infrastructure designs while working effectively with engineering teams, technology vendors and implementation partners.