THE ONLY DIRECTION YOU KNOW IS above AND beyond.
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about using modern technologies to solve complex enterprise challenges? The Senior Infrastructure Architect is a senior individual‑contributor role responsible for the architecture, technical direction, and long‑term health of a defined portfolio of enterprise infrastructure platforms.
This role ensures infrastructure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally reliable, supporting both member‑facing services and core business operations. Working at an enterprise level, the Senior Infrastructure Architect translates business and technology strategy into practical, supportable architectures that balance today’s stability with future needs.
The role provides senior technical leadership across its portfolio, owning architectural standards and platform lifecycle decisions. While it does not include people management, the role leads through technical credibility, collaboration with operations and delivery teams, and stewardship of critical infrastructure platforms.
The Team You’ve Been Looking For
AMA is more than a workplace; it’s a family. Together, we help protect the things that matter most to our more than one-million members—everything from roadside safety to retail savings, food security to childhood well-being. And with operations that span automotive, registries, travel, insurance, and more, the opportunities to grow with us are almost limitless!
Building on a century of proud service in Alberta communities, we’re passionate about making a meaningful difference in the places where we live and work. And that all begins with our people. As part of the AMA team, you’ll enjoy:
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits
- Employer-paid retirement savings program
- Employee-exclusive discounts on travel, insurance, memberships, and more
- Free travel medical insurance for you and your immediate family
- Ongoing professional development
- Paid vacation and personal days, including a Volunteer Day and Me Day
- Flexible work models that make sense for your lifestyle
For us, curiosity fuels innovation. We value people who are eager to explore new ideas and who are comfortable putting emerging technologies into practice. We see experience with AI‑powered tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and similar platforms as a real plus - especially when it’s used to work smarter, increase efficiency, and find better ways to get things done.
Who You Are
- You like being in an environment that allows you to connect and interact with people daily but are just as comfortable working independently.
- You’re confident in making decisions guided by data, your lived experiences, and a strong sense of integrity.
- You’re a problem solver with an inquisitive, analytical mind. You love coming up with new ways to tackle a challenge and relish digging into the details to find the right solution.
- You thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environments.
- You know how to juggle priorities, balancing operational responsibilities with project work, and you thrive in environments where you can take initiative with minimal direction.
- You’re not afraid to ask ‘why’ and push for better ways of doing things.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Own and shape the future of enterprise infrastructure by acting as a senior technical authority across cloud and on‑prem environments, defining long-term platform direction and infrastructure solutions that enable decentralized teams to build and operate securely.
- Act as the authoritative infrastructure representative in architecture governance forums, owning the definition, stewardship, and evolution of secure‑by‑design standards and reusable infrastructure patterns adopted across the enterprise.
- Translate long term architectural vision into executable strategy, establishing reference architectures, standards, and technical roadmaps - while remaining hands-on to ensure successful delivery and real-world impacts.
- Influence enterprise technology direction by distilling complex technical challenges, emerging trends, and architectural trade-offs into clear guidance for senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Mentor and grow the technical capabilities of the infrastructure team, with a focus on infrastructure automation, code‑driven operations, and reducing manual effort helping evolve the team toward a platform‑oriented operating model.
- Continuously assess and introduce emerging technologies, balancing innovation with operational excellence, security, and long-term sustainability.
- Establish and lead pragmatic decision‑making and governance frameworks, ensuring infrastructure changes are reviewed consistently, documented clearly, and aligned with enterprise strategy - without slowing down delivery.
What You Bring to the Table
- Post-secondary degree or diploma in Information Technology or a related field
- 8+ years of progressive experience leading the design and evolution of enterprise infrastructure, with a track record of influencing architecture across multiple domains
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex, cross-domain challenges spanning networking, compute, storage, containers, and identity across hybrid environments
- Proven experience driving automation at scale, reducing operational overhead and enabling platform-based delivery models
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering secure, resilient, cloud-native and hybrid architectures, including deep familiarity with AWS
- 4+ years of applied experience with software-defined infrastructure, including infrastructure automation using tools such as CDK, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar
- Strong scripting experience in at least one language (PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent)
- Experience delivering infrastructure automation in a version‑controlled workflow, including peer review practices (e.g., pull requests) to ensure changes are well‑documented, supportable, and repeatable
- Experience defining enterprise-level blueprints, standards, and roadmaps that drive consistency and scalability
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, aligning diverse teams toward shared infrastructure standards and practices
- You’ll get bonus points if you have:
- AWS (Solutions Architect Professional, CloudOps Engineer Administrator - Associate)
- Experience designing or implementing agentic AI workflows, including the use of AI agents, reusable skills, and supporting orchestration or runtime services (e.g., MCP‑style servers)
Belonging Matters Here
AMA is committed to providing an inclusive, respectful, and accessible environment. If you require an accommodation at any time during our recruitment process, please contact recruitment@ama.ab.ca. We’ll work with you to feel supported throughout your journey with us.
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WORK MODEL:
Hybrid-Light
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We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
