Senior System Architect

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The Senior System Architect is a strategic technical leadership role responsible for designing, improving, and sustaining complex cybersecurity, hybrid cloud, operational technology, and infrastructure platforms that support critical business operations. This position collaborates on long‑term technical direction, practical architecture roadmaps, and ensures supported systems are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with enterprise technology and business objectives. This role partners closely with cybersecurity, cloud operations, infrastructure, application, engineering, audit, operational technology, managed service providers, and business stakeholders to ensure operational services are reliable, supportable, and secure.

• Define and drive technical strategy, architecture roadmaps, system design, advanced configuration, and integration for complex enterprise systems across applicable architecture domains, including application, technology, information, and security architecture.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that improve system architecture, strengthen platform capabilities, support modernization, and enhance secure, scalable, and resilient business operations.
• Oversee system performance, scalability, reliability, security, lifecycle management, and operational readiness to ensure platforms meet business, operational, and compliance requirements.
• Provide deep technical expertise, mentorship, and guidance to implementation teams, including Dev Sec Ops , product, hybrid cloud, infrastructure, engineering, and managed service teams.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for the most complex technical issues, leading analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of critical system challenges that impact enterprise technology services.
• Ensure system architecture aligns with enterprise technical standards, security expectations, integration patterns, compliance requirements, and operational best practices.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience required.
• Five (5) or more years of relevant IT experience, including two (2) or more years of relevant architecture experience required.
• Required experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams, business stakeholders, and managed service providers to resolve complex issues, improve system reliability, and deliver secure, scalable technology solutions.
• Preferred experience supporting architecture, design, implementation, or operational improvement efforts for enterprise technology platforms, including cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, or hybrid environments.

• Microsoft Azure Administrator, AWS Solutions Architect, CompTIA Security+/Network+, ITIL 4 Foundation, Dev Sec Ops  Foundation, TOGAF Foundation, Archi Mate Foundation.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), CCSP, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, Cisco CCNP (Enterprise/Security), VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation.

• Adaptability
  - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• AI Fundamentals
  - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
• Change Management
  - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment.
• Agile Methodology
  - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental…