Enterprise Architect

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

📋 Description

• Define existing and target architectures, reference designs, and modernization roadmaps that align with business objectives.

• Evaluate dependencies, technical debt, risks, and costs to prioritize investments and suggest practical solutions.

• Lead architecture assessments for significant initiatives.

• Maintain standards, decision documentation, and recorded exceptions with responsible owners.

• Resolve design trade-offs, escalate significant risks, and guide delivery teams through implementation and validation processes.

• Design architectures for Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments, including landing zones, migrations, identity management, connectivity, and cloud operational models.

• Establish guidelines for availability, backup, recovery, and observability.

• Assess capacity, service performance, and cloud expenditures in collaboration with operational teams.

• Define infrastructure and network designs across virtualization, storage, containers, WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, and cloud connectivity.

• Direct segmentation, routing, firewall, and remote access design strategies.

• Promote reusable infrastructure-as-code patterns and automation methods.

• Integrate Zero Trust, identity management, privileged access, encryption, threat modeling, HIPAA, HITRUST r2, SOC 2 Type II, and NIST principles into architectural requirements.

• Address design risks and assist in validating recovery and resilience capabilities.

• Shape AI technical architecture and adoption strategies.

• Assess AI use cases, platforms, models, agents, and integrations.

• Collaborate with Security and Compliance on governance and protective measures.

• Present recommendations and trade-offs to executive and board-level stakeholders.

• Evaluate vendors and technological investments.

• Mentor technical teams and foster consensus on standards and priorities across various functions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Over 12 years of progressive technology experience, including more than 7 years in architectural leadership positions.

• Proven track record in developing enterprise architectures and steering cloud transformation or modernization through implementation in complex settings.

• Extensive experience in designing Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments, covering migration, identity, networking, availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.

• Experience across enterprise infrastructure, virtualization, storage, backup, containers, and network architecture, involving multiple data centers and cloud platforms.

• Ability to embed security controls into architecture, including Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, multifactor authentication, privileged access management, federation, and Zero Trust principles.

• Experience in establishing architecture governance and reusable infrastructure-as-code patterns utilizing tools like Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation.

• Capability to assess AI and generative AI architectures, integration patterns, data protection requirements, and operational risks.

• Demonstrated ability to articulate technical and financial trade-offs, influence decisions across teams, and uphold accountability during implementation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience and skills.

• Bonus potential (role-dependent and discretionary).

• 401k plans available.

• Opportunities for growth and advancement.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Tax-free Dependent Care Account.

• Life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability coverage.

• Excellent PTO policy.

• Supportive work-life balance environment.

• Strong, collaborative teams.