IT Architect

What You Will Do

• Partner closely with business and IT stakeholders to understand business strategies, challenges, and outcomes, and translate them into scalable, secure, and pragmatic infrastructure architectures.
• Continuously evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies and industry trends, including cloud, networking, security, automation, and platform services, and lead the assessment, alignment, and adoption of capabilities that deliver business value.
• Act as a thought partner to the business, helping determine when technologies should be incubated internally, adopted from partners, or deferred based on value, risk, and readiness.
• Define, maintain, and evolve infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with both near-term needs and long-term strategy.
• Lead architecture alternatives analysis, clearly framing problems and opportunities, evaluating tradeoffs, and making recommendations grounded in business requirements, cost, risk, and operational impact.
• Collaborate with application and platform teams to guide infrastructure design for on-premises, hybrid, virtualized, and cloud environments.
• Develop and communicate clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, reference models, design patterns, and decision records, to enable consistent execution across teams.
• Establish and refine governance models, work processes, and operational runbooks that balance innovation with reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure issues, while driving long-term solutions that reduce recurrence and improve system resilience.
• Influence and align cross-functional teams and external partners without direct authority, using technical credibility and business context to drive outcomes.
• Participate in architecture and technology advisory forums, advocating for customer and business needs and assessing the impact of proposed changes across the enterprise.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• IT architecture or Senior Systems Engineering experience, including in hands-on design and implementation.
• Experience with multiple infrastructure technology pillars (endpoint, mobility, compute, storage, network, security, etc.) and their management tools.
• Practical Experience with Cloud Architecture design (AWS or Azure).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; adept at tailoring messages for technical, executive, and nontechnical audiences.