Domain Architect – Hybrid Infrastructure

About the role

The Domain Architect – Hybrid Infrastructure is responsible for defining and executing architectural visions and roadmaps for strategic hybrid infrastructure platforms. This role involves developing reference architectures, implementation patterns, and proof-of-concepts, leading integration architecture, and ensuring solutions meet critical requirements such as availability, performance, scalability, security, and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute architectural vision and roadmaps for strategic hybrid infrastructure platforms.
• Develop reference architectures, implementation patterns, and proof-of-concepts.
• Provide architecture leadership across on-prem and cloud compute, storage, networking, OS, and system software.
• Establish standards, design principles, and architectural guardrails.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for availability, performance, scalability, security, and resilience.
• Lead integration architecture, dependency mapping, and interoperability with enterprise systems.
• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and architectural risks.
• Partner with governance, risk, and operations teams to support stability and business continuity.
• Evaluate architecture options using Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Return on Investment (ROI), and strategic trade-off analysis.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive and technical stakeholders.
• Influence decision-making and bring clarity in ambiguous or emerging technology areas.
• Stay current on industry trends and translate innovation into enterprise-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10+ years related work experience, with at least 3-5+ years in architecture or senior technology leadership roles.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Deep expertise in:
• Hybrid, hyperconverged, and hyperscaler architectures (AWS, AZURE, GCP, Nutanix preferred)
• System integration and dependency management
• Architecture governance, risk, and resilience

Special Factors

• Sponsorship: Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

Vanguard is dedicated to the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. We strive to lead through innovative products and services that enhance our clients' lives. Our mission-driven and collaborative culture supports our commitment to delivering exceptional client outcomes and enriching the employee experience.

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