Infrastructure Architect Lead

Daily Responsibilities:

• Lead current-state discovery, architecture assessments, and target-state infrastructure design.
• Define infrastructure requirements, solution options, and recommendations aligned with business priorities and enterprise standards.
• Provide architectural leadership across networking, compute, storage, backup, cloud, workplace technology, and telephony, partnering with security and identity specialists.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, solution documentation, decision records, and transition roadmaps.
• Lead technical design discussions and prepare architecture submissions for applicable governance reviews.
• Partner with the project manager to translate architecture deliverables into sequenced activities, milestones, dependencies, and clear ownership.
• Coordinate technical workshops and follow-ups across engineering, operations, vendors, and other delivery workstreams.
• Identify technical risks, assumptions, design gaps, and delivery blockers; drive resolution with accountable owners and escalate decisions when required.
• Guide technical readiness reviews, implementation planning, and operational handover with engineering and operations teams.
• Prepare concise leadership updates outlining architecture recommendations, delivery impacts, risks, and decisions required.

Must-Have Skills:

• 10+ years of progressive enterprise infrastructure experience, including demonstrated leadership of cross-domain infrastructure architecture.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise networking, compute, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery, hybrid cloud, Microsoft 365, and workplace technologies.
• Proven ability to drive complex, large-scale infrastructure initiatives from discovery through implementation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with PMs, and technical teams, to manage risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Previous experience working within large enterprise environments.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management.
• Superior organization and time-management skills.
• Results-oriented mindset.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related discipline