Essential Functions of the Job:
Enterprise Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture
• Define and maintain the global infrastructure architecture strategy, roadmap, standards, and reference architectures.
• Lead architectural planning across cloud platforms, network, compute, storage, data center, identity, endpoint, collaboration, and infrastructure services.
• Ensure infrastructure architecture supports business growth, global scalability, regulatory requirements, operational resilience, and cybersecurity standards.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, application, data, and business technology teams to align infrastructure capabilities with enterprise technology strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies that improve agility, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
Cloud, Platform & Modernization Leadership
• Drive modernization of infrastructure platforms through cloud adoption, automation, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and service standardization.
• Establish architectural patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including workload placement, connectivity, security, availability, and governance.
• Support transformation from legacy infrastructure models to scalable, automated, and product-oriented technology services.
• Ensure technology solutions are designed for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, compliance, and operational supportability.
Governance, Standards & Risk Management
• Establish and govern infrastructure design principles, technology standards, lifecycle management practices, and architecture review processes.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with applicable company policies, security requirements, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.
• Identify technology risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, and architectural gaps; develop mitigation and remediation plans.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to embed security-by-design and resilience-by-design into infrastructure solutions.
Delivery Partnership & Operational Excellence
• Collaborate with infrastructure operations, service management, cybersecurity, procurement, finance, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise technology capabilities.
• Provide architectural oversight for major infrastructure programs, mergers/acquisitions integrations, site expansions, cloud migrations, and global technology initiatives.
• Support vendor evaluation, solution selection, contract input, and strategic partner management for infrastructure technologies and managed services.
• Promote standardization, automation, monitoring, and operational excellence across infrastructure services.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
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Leads and manages infrastructure architecture and/or engineering team members, including performance management, development, coaching, and resource planning.
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Provides strategic and technical direction to direct reports, matrixed teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
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Supports recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and professional development of team members.
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Ensures team members have the skills, tools, guidance, and resources needed to deliver high-quality architecture and technology outcomes.
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Promotes collaboration, transparency, and effective communication across global and cross-functional teams.