Sr Director Digital Foundations Architecture Remote

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Date:
Oct 28, 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.

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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 Sr. Director, Digital Foundations Architecture provides enterprise architecture leadership for the foundational technology capabilities on which Amtrak’s digital services depend. The role aligns infrastructure strategy and investment with corporate goals while advancing a resilient, automated, observable, secure, and supportable technology foundation. Through architecture governance, technical leadership, engineering enablement, and clear decision guidance, this senior Digital Technology leader accelerates delivery, maximizes return on technology investment, and reduces operational cost and risk.

The Sr. Director defines and communicates current, transitional, and target-state architectures and roadmaps for advanced networking and connectivity, cloud infrastructure and IaaS, compute, infrastructure-as-code and automation, observability and resilience, service delivery, and technology operations. The role establishes reusable patterns and reference architectures and partners with Platform, Cybersecurity, Data, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate enterprise strategy into capabilities. As an Enterprise Architect and people leader, the Sr.

Director develops architecture talent, strengthens technical depth, and connects strategic direction to practical engineering and operational outcomes. The successful candidate combines enterprise architecture leadership with demonstrated hands‑on experience designing and operating large, complex infrastructure environments in which reliability, operational readiness, automation, lifecycle management, and customer service are as important as technology selection.

As a senior people leader they will provide direction and development of leaders and teams to move architecture and business objectives forward.

• Own and communicate the architectural vision for core enterprise infrastructure capabilities, establishing patterns and reference architectures that improve consistency, reuse, resilience, and operational supportability.
• Define and govern current, transitional, and target-state architecture across advanced networking and connectivity, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, IaaS, compute, data center and edge infrastructure, infrastructure automation, observability, resilience, service delivery, and technology operations.
• Govern and direct enterprise principles, patterns standards and guidance for how infrastructure is designed, provisioned, connected, deployed, monitored, operated, maintained, recovered, and retired.
• Define and govern the infrastructure architecture interface with the Security domain. Cybersecurity and physical security…