Associate Director - Solutions Architect

Associate Director - Solutions Architect

Irving, Texas / Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Job : r-1095645

Apply prior to the end date:
June 27, 2026

In this mobile role, you’ll primarily work from customer or field location(s), with occasional visits to a Verizon location for in-person training and meetings.

In this role, you will champion a collaborative culture that brings development, operations, and security together to conceive, build, and deliver secure internal tooling & automation applications at speed and scale. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team in applying advanced Dev Sec Ops , agentic AI techniques, and Git Ops methodologies for internal-facing applications and process transformation initiatives.

• Leadership & Agile Management

• Lead and manage projects focused on optimizing workflows, utilizing Agile tools for planning, tracking, version control, and collaboration.

• Serve as or collaborate with business unit leaders to facilitate process transformation planning utilizing Agile techniques including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

• Foster a strong culture of collaboration across workforce managers, GTS (IT) teams, operations, product, and corps-security to eliminate legacy processes & systems.

• CI/CD & Pipeline Architecture

• Design, standardize, and oversee Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines across the Global Solutions organization.

• Manage container and package registries utilizing Verizon's One Artifactory (e.g., One Artifactory Cloud  and OneArtifactory
  
  CI) to manage and push Docker images, npm packages, and application dependencies.

• Ensure accurate ADOM group provisioning and access controls for repository read/write operations within One Artifactory.

• Support and provision containerized build environments and runners using containerization technologies.

• Dev Sec Ops  & Security Compliance

• Embed "secure-by-design" principles into the development lifecycle and ensure vulnerability testing is incorporated directly into CI/CD automation.

• Enforce continuous and automated application security testing to ensure all packages hosted in One Artifactory are compliant and secure.

• Balance delivery speed with security by integrating Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to control open-source code risk.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Chaos Engineering

• Establish real-time monitoring, logging, and analytics to track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as average handle time and customer satisfaction.

• Implement "Fail Fast, Fail Small" Chaos Engineering practices and schedule routine game days to introduce failures, practice incident response, and increase overall system resilience.

• Drive the documentation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), SOE, and SRE details into standardized playbooks to reduce dependencies and improve knowledge transfer.

• Infrastructure & Network Automation

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles for managing system configurations and application environments.

• Deploy, manage, and scale application hosting environments utilizing Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP) VMs and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Administer Open Stack tenants and associated resources within VCP to maintain high availability.

• Manage hardware replacement processes through Verizon's business-as-usual IOP system.

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Six or more years of experience in a variety of disciplines related to the selling of IT and managing telecommunications solutions.

• Six or more years of experience in a customer facing leadership role with accountability for end to end delivery (i.e. Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Service Delivery Architect).

• Five or more years of architecture experience in conceptualization, definition and development of IT and/or telecom based products and services.

• Five or more years of experience delivering customer presentations…