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IT Enterprise Architect

IT SupportIT SupportFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2009H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

63 days ago

Salary

$144.6K - $217K / year

Bachelor Degree12 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudTerraformVault

Job Description

• Partner with the various business units to identify current concerns and needs and potential solutions. Provides guidance and support on how best to implement the recommended solution based on best practice and current environment and team structure. • Define current/future state architectures and long-term roadmaps aligned to business goals • Model TCO, right-size capacity, and implement cost controls and FinOps practices • Lead end-to-end design for initiatives (e.g., micro-segmentation, WAF/API gateway, observability, backup/DR etc.) leading to modernization of existing IT solutions • Publish reference architectures, ADRs, guardrails, and golden paths, gap/drift analysis and deviation handling • Partner with engineers to transition designs to build; validate via PoCs; de-risk with modeling phased rollouts • Communicate alternatives, risks, and tradeoffs to execs and teams and influence decision-making • Provide mentorship and coach engineers to elevate engineering practices and design thinking

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in technology or computer science and 12+ years of related experience
Master’s degree and 10+ years of related experience
Three years of work experience in IT solution design and architecture
Three years of hands-on cloud solution design and deployment
Excellent communication, facilitation, and documentation skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Strong proficiency in IT architecture, solution design, systems thinking, and cross-platform integration.
Advanced cloud architecture expertise with a focus on Microsoft Azure (Landing Zones, governance, networking), with familiarity in AWS as a plus.
Deep expertise of hybrid networking and identity/IAM, including Entra ID, SSO/OIDC/SAML, Conditional Access, and workload identity patterns.
Hands-on experience with security architecture, including WAF, API security, segmentation, PAM/PIM, secrets management, and Azure Key Vault / KMS.
Strong grasp of observability and reliability engineering, including logging, metrics, tracing, SLO/SLI design, DR/BCP, and operational readiness.
Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, Bicep, CI/CD pipelines).
Broad knowledge of understanding of AI Platforms and related IT principles including understanding of agentic frameworks, infrastructure aspects related to Generative AI models and agents.