Director, Solutions Architecture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Develop the strategic architectural vision for Infrastructure & Operations.

• Direct the architectural strategy for enterprise cloud migration, the evolution of private cloud, and extensive transformation initiatives.

• Create architectural patterns, standards, and reusable designs applicable across various platforms and environments.

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Applications, Program Management, and business stakeholders.

• Build, lead, and cultivate a multidisciplinary team of solutions architects.

• Define operating models, engagement frameworks, and clarify roles for architectural capabilities.

• Represent Infrastructure & Operations in enterprise governance forums.

• Ensure that designs align with architectural review board expectations and compliance standards.

• Incorporate security, regulatory, and defense-industrial-base compliance requirements into platform architecture.

• Deliver executive-ready communication and guidance on complex, ambiguous, and high-impact initiatives.

• Shape the architectural strategy for Infrastructure & Operations.

• Enhance cloud adoption, modernize the private cloud, and drive automation-focused engineering.

• Reinforce security, compliance, and operational consistency across I&O platforms.

• Foster enterprise alignment through predictable, transparent, and trustworthy architectural engagement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform architecture.

• More than 5 years of experience leading architecture or engineering teams.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Extensive knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or multi-cloud).

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and contemporary infrastructure design principles.

• Demonstrated success in driving modernization, cloud migration, platform transformation, or large-scale technical changes.

• Ability to influence without direct authority and cultivate alignment across diverse technical and business teams.

• Exceptional communication skills for articulating architectural strategies to engineers, leaders, and executives.

• Experience in supporting highly regulated, secure, or complex enterprise environments.

• Strategic and collaborative mindset, focused on architectural clarity, enterprise consistency, and long-term vision.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Health savings accounts

• 401(k) savings plan

• Disability coverage

• Life and accident insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Legal plan

• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance

• Paid time off

• Paid holidays

• Paid parental leave

• Paid military leave

• Paid bereavement leave

• Applicable federal and state sick leave

• Monetary or non-monetary recognition awards

• Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics