Fellow Digital Technology Architect Operations - Remote

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Date:
Jul 27, 2026

Location:

US

Company:
Amtrak

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful  living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

The Fellow Architect [Operations] is responsible for providing visionary company wide architecture services to ensure portfolio technology investments are in alignment with corporate goals and its ability to move towards the future in an evolving business environment. As a Digital Technology expert, this role will utilize communication, influence, guidance, and governance processes to maximize return on technology investment, and reduce time to capability, while minimizing operational costs.

The Fellow Architect will use visionary strategic thinking to choose technology capabilities, strategize and build around them to bring value to business relevant capability change.

As part of the DT architecture team the Fellow Architect will be responsible for communicating technology target state, roadmap and change progress to senior leaders and other stakeholders. They will use their communication and influence skills to promote awareness and understanding of architecture principles across the organization, evangelizing for strategic enterprise change, executing strategy, technical leadership.

• Set architectural vision for core capabilities and aligning patterns to allow for consistency and reuse
• Define enterprise principles, patterns and guidance that help in technology data capabilities, platforms and infrastructure, how applications are built, deployed, and maintained to align with strategic needs and maximizing technology investments
• Provide Oversight and Governance to the current, interim and potential future state of key architecture domains
• Ensure the reference architectures, standards, and guidelines of the organization's technology is safe, secure, stable and compliant with industry standards.
• Drive adoption and re-use of the preferred resources, processes and technology across the enterprise.
• Mentor other architects and DT teams, providing guidance and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Executive-level communication, negotiation, and strategic influencing skills, capable of articulating highly complex technical visions to diverse audiences, including non-technical executives and external stakeholders.

Domain Expertise:

• The individual should bring experience integrating operational technology for rail with information technology, enterprise platforms, cloud, cybersecurity, data, and AI. Experience in rail industry strongly preferred. Other experience from transportation, aviation, aerospace and defense, utilities, industrial automation, telecommunications, logistics or another regulated infrastructure environment is also a preference.
  • Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems
  • IT/OT Convergence and Systems-of-Systems Architecture
  • Industrial IoT, Edge Computing, and Digital Twins
  • Mission-Critical and Safety-Critical Systems
  • Real-Time Operational Data and Industrial AI
  • Legacy OT Modernization and Platform Integration
  • Architecture Governance and Technology Strategy
  • Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

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