Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

Company:
Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Location:

Overland Park, KS, US Cary, NC, US

Company:
Black & Veatch Corporation

Opportunity Type:
Staff

Project Only Hire:
No

Why Black & Veatch?

As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.

The Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure proactively and holistically leads enterprise architecture activities that shape the strategy, standards, and target-state direction for infrastructure and cloud capabilities across the organization. This role guides the development and management of infrastructure and cloud solutions, including hybrid cloud, public cloud, private cloud, data center, network, compute, storage, identity, endpoint, observability, resiliency, shared infrastructure services, and enterprise platform foundations.

He or she has a deep understanding of business goals, enterprise technology outcomes, operational needs, security requirements, cost drivers, and the infrastructure capabilities required to support scalable, secure, resilient, and modern solutions. The Infrastructure Enterprise Architect provides leadership, analysis, and design guidance to ensure infrastructure and cloud decisions align with business priorities, enterprise architecture governance, cybersecurity expectations, technology standards, and long-term operational supportability.

This role creates and maintains deliverables that define the organization's current and future-state infrastructure and cloud direction, including reference architecture, roadmaps, standards, reusable patterns, lifecycle guidance, and architecture decisions that enable targeted business outcomes.

• Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure and cloud architecture standards, reference models, guardrails, and target-state blueprints aligned to business strategy, security requirements, regulatory expectations, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Lead architecture direction for hybrid cloud, public cloud, private cloud, data center, compute, storage, network, end-user, platform, observability, and resiliency capabilities to ensure scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective technology foundations.
• Develop multi-year infrastructure and cloud roadmaps that modernize legacy platforms, reduce technical debt, improve service resiliency, and enable business growth.
• Establish infrastructure and cloud architecture principles, patterns, and reusable blueprints for landing zones, connectivity, identity, automation, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring, and operational support.
• Act as a trusted advisor across IT, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, product, application, infrastructure operations, and vendor teams to translate business outcomes into infrastructure and cloud capabilities.
• Provide architectural leadership for complex initiatives such as cloud migration, platform modernization, network transformation, identity modernization, disaster recovery, infrastructure automation, and enterprise platform enablement.

Plan and Govern the Infrastructure and Cloud Portfolio

• Lead analysis of the infrastructure and cloud environment to identify critical deficiencies, duplication, operational risk, resiliency gaps, cost optimization opportunities, and modernization priorities.
• Develop and apply infrastructure and cloud architecture standards through enterprise architecture governance, including minimum viable architecture, architecture decision records, lifecycle standards, and exception management.
• Partner with infrastructure operations, cloud platform, cybersecurity, application, data, integration, and vendor teams to ensure infrastructure decisions support enterprise priorities and operational readiness.
• Guide project and product teams on infrastructure, cloud, security, resiliency, availability, performance, scalability, and cost implications of solution designs.
• Ensure architecture alignment across cloud providers, data centers, networks, edge locations, collaboration platforms, enterprise tooling, and managed service providers.
• Oversee documentation of infrastructure and cloud architecture decisions,…