Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

• Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure architecture across Azure cloud, hybrid environments, networking, compute, platform services, and co-location data centers.
• Develop and communicate current-state, future-state, and roadmap strategies for enterprise technology domains.
• Establish architecture standards, principles, and patterns that support scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence.
• Lead architecture initiatives related to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including reliability frameworks, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, disaster recovery, and automation.
• Collaborate with technology leadership to align architecture decisions with business objectives and enterprise strategy.
• Research emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and strategic planning.
• Provide architectural guidance for strategic initiatives and enterprise-wide technology investments.
• Partner with engineering, security, cloud, data, and platform teams to ensure solution alignment and successful implementation.
• Support architecture governance activities and provide recommendations to senior leadership and architecture review boards.
• Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and investment priorities to executive stakeholders.

Scope of Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to technology and business leadership.
• Translate enterprise technology vision into actionable architecture standards and strategic roadmaps.
• Promote consistency, reuse, and optimization across enterprise technology investments.
• Develop architecture reference models, documentation, and best practices for delivery teams.
• Identify and mitigate architecture-related risks while ensuring compliance with governance and regulatory requirements.
• Foster collaboration across multiple technology domains and stakeholder groups.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise and infrastructure architecture, cloud technologies, and executive stakeholder engagement, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, automation, and long-term technology strategy., * Bachelor’s degree and seven (7) years of relevant experience, or a combined minimum of eleven (11) years of higher education and/or related experience in lieu of a degree.

• Seven (7)+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, or related technical leadership roles supporting large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with enterprise and infrastructure architecture practices.
• Experience designing and governing Azure cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, methodologies, and architecture tools.
• Experience developing enterprise technology roadmaps and infrastructure strategies.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills., * Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.
• Azure or other major cloud platform certifications.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Experience within financial services, banking, or other highly regulated industries.
• Knowledge of container platforms, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

3.63.6 out of 5 stars United States Remote Up to $82.50 an hour - Full-time, Contract