Infrastructure Architect

Job summary

Halma is seeking an Infrastructure Architect to define, govern, and evolve infrastructure architecture across M365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and on-premises infrastructure. This role provides architectural direction, standards, and assurance, ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with business and technology strategy. The architect will report to the Head of Global Technology Services and collaborate with senior technical leads on major initiatives and transformations.

Qualifications

• Significant experience (8+ years) in infrastructure, cloud, or platform roles, with demonstrated architectural or design authority level.
• Deep experience with Microsoft Azure and M365 in enterprise or global environments.
• Strong understanding of hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises data centers, networking, and identity integration.
• Experience supporting or integrating SaaS platforms such as Dynamics 365 and Power Platform from an infrastructure and security perspective.
• Proven experience defining architecture standards, patterns, and governance in complex, multi-company organizations.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management technologies (Entra ID / Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, ADFS, federation, MFA, and conditional access).
• Experience shaping and assuring infrastructure migrations and modernization programs.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical architecture into clear guidance for engineers, leaders, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as design authority for enterprise infrastructure across M365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and on-premises environments.
• Define and maintain infrastructure principles, standards, reference designs, and target roadmaps.
• Lead M365 tenant strategy and complex migrations, aligned to security, identity, compliance, and operating models.
• Define Azure and hybrid architecture patterns aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Oversee on-premises infrastructure architecture, integration, lifecycle management, and modernization.
• Own architecture for business continuity, disaster recovery, backup, and resilience across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Advise operating companies on adopting new technologies and infrastructure solutions.
• Ensure architecture aligns with change control, governance, and risk management.
• Maintain architectural documentation, including conceptual, logical, and physical diagrams.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code and automation-first principles using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
• Align infrastructure architecture with DevOps and platform engineering to enable CI/CD and standardized environments.
• Define and govern FinOps practices, including cost optimization, usage governance, budgeting, and forecasting across Azure and M365.
• Establish cost controls, including tagging, showback/chargeback, and accountability across operating companies.
• Provide architectural guidance to balance cost, performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Define infrastructure architecture for AI/ML workloads, advanced analytics, and high-performance computing.
• Ensure platforms are AI-ready with scalable compute, data integration, secure access, and responsible AI controls.
• Evaluate emerging Microsoft capabilities, including Copilot and AI services, and define group-wide adoption patterns.
• Promote AIOps to improve incident detection, automated remediation, and operational insight.
• Stay current with technology trends, Microsoft roadmaps, and emerging capabilities to inform future architecture decisions.

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