Enterprise Architect

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Enterprise Architect

Contract: Buffalo, New York, US

Salary Range: 80.00 - 90.00 | Per Hour

Job Code: 370241

End Date: 2026-07-25
Days Left: 11 days, 3 hours left

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Position Details:

Title - Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure

Location - Buffalo, NY - 14203 (Hybrid Preferred, Open for Remote)

Pay rate- $80- 90/hr (Negotiable)

Details

• EA - Infrastructure Owns the conceptual and logical architecture for enterprise infrastructure spanning Azure cloud, co-location data centers, compute, networking, and platform services
• Defines high-level physical architecture standards for scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient environments supporting all platforms, including AI and digital workloads
• Establishes enterprise architecture patterns for hybrid infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration across cloud and on-premises environments
• Drives alignment with enterprise cloud strategy, platform engineering models, and cross-domain architecture (data, AI, cyber)
• Defines architecture principles and patterns for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) across both Azure and co-location environments, including:
• Reliability, availability, and fault tolerance design principles
• Scalability and capacity management models
• Resilience patterns (e.g., failover, geo-redundancy, disaster recovery)
• Observability, monitoring, and telemetry architecture at platform level
• Automation and infrastructure-as-code enablement Establishes high-level SRE operating models, including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability governance frameworks, ensuring consistency across engineering teams and platforms
• Maintains deep knowledge of infrastructure and cloud technologies, including Azure-native services, hybrid connectivity, container platforms, and distributed systems, ensuring architecture decisions are both forward-looking and implementable
• Partners with engineering, SRE, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure architectures are operationally viable, resilient, and aligned to SDLC delivery models, and communicates tradeoffs, risks, and investment priorities to senior leadership

Skill Set

• Infrastructure
• Enterprise Architecture
• Executive Communications

FUNCTION :

• Documents, visualizes, and articulates overall technical health, current and target states of Enterprise Architecture in collaboration with domain leadership.
• Develops roadmaps with domain leadership to incorporate industry trend data for a targeted domain / function, and connect them with the broader Enterprise technology landscape, including alignment to industry Enterprise Architecture standards building a pathway to achieve target state goals.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leverage expertise in technical and business strategy to collaborate with Technology domain leadership to support strategic decision making.
• Provide consultation services to domain leadership to improve technology delivery and operational efficiency.
• Research and communicate fact-based recommendations to Master Architects to support the domain in the Enterprise Architecture governance process.
• Provide thought leadership and build strong stakeholder partnerships to articulate current state, target state and domain roadmap.
• Partner with delivery teams and domain leadership on architecture areas to include business, application, data, Cloud/infrastructure, security, integration, operations, and support in preparation for S1/S2 leadership meetings and architectural peer group meetings.
• Research, understand and apply existing, new and emerging technologies and trends to determine their potential impact on technology domains.
  Translate the enterprise's technology future-state architecture vision into principles, guidelines, standards and patterns to ensure alignment with broader strategic goals.
• Identify opportunities and approaches for solving domain problems from a broad enterprise perspective that may include new products, new platforms, or system enhancements for Agile teams and domain leadership to help promote the reuse of existing technical investments and capabilities.
• Create and maintain reference materials for use by the technical delivery team to ensure consistent and compliant solutions for enterprise level architecture patterns.
• Participate in the planning and design of strategic initiatives that require architecture guidance.
  Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.

NATURE AND SCOPE:

• This position will interface with senior leaders, and will require excellent communication skills along with basic knowledge of new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those trends for strategic use

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 year's higher education and/or relevant work experience
• 7 or more years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns
• Working knowledge of architectural frameworks
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools
• Work experience in software engineering, software delivery and/or solution architecture

IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED:

• Graduate degree in business or technical discipline
• Certification and experience working with Cloud technologies and vendors
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Certification in enterprise architecture frameworks
• Experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design and roadmap planning

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually - as applicable.

Job Requirement

• Enterprise Architect
• Infrastructure
• Azure
• co-location data centers
• Data
• AI
• Resilience patterns

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• Sakshi Kothari
• View email address on click.appcast.io

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