Director of Enterprise Architecture

A leading oilfield services company is seeking a Director of Enterprise Architecture to join the team. This is a working leadership role in which the new hire will personally design and configure core network and infrastructure systems while directing the IT Department and holding the company’s managed service providers accountable to defined scopes, service levels, and budgets. The Director of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for the design, security, reliability, and cost of the technology infrastructure the company operates on across corporate offices, manufacturing and service facilities, shops, yards, and field locations.

Salary + Additional Benefits:

• $140,000-$160,000
• Bonus
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 401K – company match

Location: Houston, TX
Type of Position: Direct Hire

Responsibilities:

• Manage the IT Manager – Systems & Applications, including goal setting, performance reviews, development planning, and coverage scheduling.
• Establish and report service level targets for the service desk, and own incident, request, change, and problem management, serving as senior escalation for major incidents.
• Define and enforce infrastructure and end-user standards — hardware models, imaging and provisioning, configuration baselines, and documentation — and the approval workflows that user access provisioning is executed against.
• Build team redundancy through cross-training and documented runbooks so that no individual or provider is a single point of failure.

• Own our client’s network architecture end to end — LAN, WAN, wireless, firewalls, VPN and remote access, segmentation, routing, DNS/DHCP, and IP address management.
• Personally configure, tune, and troubleshoot core network and security infrastructure, and maintain the compute, storage, virtualization, backup, and cloud environment.
• Own Microsoft 365 and Entra t configuration, including conditional access, multifactor authentication, device compliance, endpoint management, and email security.
• Maintain a rolling multi-year infrastructure roadmap, current network documentation and asset inventories, and the IT operating and capital budgets, business cases, and AFEs, including buildouts and cutovers for new, relocated, or acquired facilities.

• Own connectivity design and reliability for shop, yard, manufacturing, including redundant paths, and site-appropriate hardware.
• Specify and deploy ruggedized and industrial-grade networking and wireless coverage suited to shop, yard, and outdoor environments.
• Support connectivity and segmentation for shop-floor and operational technology systems — machine tools, inspection and test equipment, scanning and asset-tracking systems, and physical security and camera systems — partnering with Operations and Manufacturing on requirements.
• Partner with Operations leadership to prioritize site-level infrastructure investment against operational impact; travel to locations to assess and remediate conditions firsthand.

• Own the relationship, scope, and performance of our client’s managed service providers; define what is delivered by the MSP versus retained in house and identify and optimize discovered gaps and duplication.
• Negotiate and administer statements of work, service level agreements, and renewals; review invoices against contracted scope and reconcile billed hours and assets to actual consumption.
• Run a structured provider governance cadence, including quarterly business reviews with reported metrics, open issues, and root cause trends, and elevate or recommend replacement of underperforming providers with a documented transition plan.
• Manage telecom, circuit,…