Senior Technical Architect (Infrastructure and Cloud)
- Chicago, United States
- Lead/Staff
- 10+ years
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
Skills
Required
- infrastructure / cloud / platform engineering / systems engineering
- architecture / networking / security / infrastructure certifications
- AI
- infrastructure as code
- modern automation practices
- integrating disparate systems
- enterprise integration patterns
- APIs
- messaging
- Azure
Preferred
- TOGAF / COBIT
- guardrails
- tecnologías
- cloud governance
- reference architectures
Join our team as a Senior Technical Architect (Infrastructure and Cloud). In this role, you will set the direction for our corporate and cloud infrastructure, ensuring it evolves to support secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective business services. You will research new technologies, advise on current solutions, and drive improvements. This is a senior individual contributor role that connects infrastructure and cloud decisions to enterprise architecture and the broader technology roadmap. You will not run day-to-day operations or build infrastructure yourself, but will ensure that the teams that do have a coherent target architecture, practical guardrails, and a clear path from where we are to where we need to be.
Responsibilities
- Establecer la dirección para la evolución de la infraestructura corporativa y en la nube, asegurando que sea segura, confiable, escalable y rentable.
- Investigar nuevas tecnologías, asesorar sobre soluciones actuales y liderar mejoras, incluyendo actualizaciones, jubilaciones y reemplazos.
- Definir la arquitectura de infraestructura y en la nube, con una hoja de ruta multianual vinculada a las prioridades comerciales, el riesgo, el ciclo de vida, la capacidad y el costo.
- Experience defining cloud governance, guardrails, and standards in a large enterprise, and getting teams to adopt them
- Experience creating and governing reference architectures, standards, and architecture decision records
- Clear written and verbal communication for both engineering and executive audiences
Requirements
- Ability to evaluate architecture choices on business value, risk, cost, and operational evidence, not technology preference
- 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering, or systems engineering, including substantial architecture responsibility for complex enterprise environments
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code and modern automation practices
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and technical teams without relying on direct authority
- Experience integrating disparate systems, with a strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, such as APIs, messaging, and event-driven architecture
- Solid understanding of agentic AI concepts and patterns, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and related technologies
- Demonstrated success defining infrastructure and cloud strategy and roadmaps that span multiple technology domains and delivery teams
- Deep expertise in several infrastructure domains, with enough breadth to make integrated decisions across cloud, network, compute, storage, resilience, and cost
- Strong working knowledge of Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) architecture, including landing zones, connectivity, identity dependencies, workload placement, and shared-responsibility models
- Experience in a large, global, regulated, or mission-critical environment
- Familiarity with IT service management practices, including the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and with configuration management database (CMDB) alignment for infrastructure configuration items
- Familiarity with AI and ML infrastructure requirements, such as GPU and accelerator capacity, and with zero-trust architecture
- Experience with release planning using Agile and Scrum practices
- Experience with FinOps, technology portfolio management, and infrastructure cost modeling
- Relevant architecture, cloud, networking, security, or infrastructure certifications
Preferred
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF or COBIT, or equivalent
- Experience guiding vendor strategy or major platform selection
Pay
USD 171,900 - 300,800
