Senior Infrastructure Architect

- Focus on delivering customer value by ensuring solutions meet business needs and drive desired outcomes. - Engage with customers to understand their goals and challenges, tailoring solutions to address these effectively. - Choose the correct solution components for the problem at hand by considering the available platforms, services, and packages along with their capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and costs. - Maintain knowledge of Cybersecurity and compliance frameworks. - Seek feedback from customers to improve solutions and ensure they deliver maximum value. - Collaborate with stakeholders to align solutions with customer expectations and business objectives. - Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers to ensure ongoing satisfaction and success. - Act as a trusted advisor to customers, providing insights and recommendations to enhance their business processes and outcomes. - Support sales and marketing efforts by identifying and reviewing opportunities and adding differentiation to our messaging and brand. - Provide architectural guidance during solution design and ensure alignment with client strategies, principles, standards, and best practices. - Assist with the definition of requirements and translate them into a solution architecture. - Lead and work closely with development and operational support teams to refine requirements and ensure detailed designs align with the architecture. - Conduct research on technologies and approaches critical to the architecture. - Document and clearly communicate architectures using multiple models or views. - Lead Proof of Concept engagements and provide architecture and solution governance. - Architect and deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP, VMware, OpenStack). - Lead cloud transformation initiatives, including IT-as-a-Service strategies, workload migrations, and application modernization. - Serve as a trusted advisor to C-level executives, partners, and internal teams, providing thought leadership and technical guidance. - Oversee security architecture, compliance, and risk management, including implementation of frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOX, ISO 27001, and cloud-native security controls. - Drive DevOps and automation practices using tools like Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and cloud management platforms. - Manage and optimize virtual desktop infrastructure (Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop) and enterprise collaboration tools (M365, O365, Intune). - Lead technical workshops, training sessions, and stakeholder engagements to ensure successful adoption of new technologies. - Conduct technical audits, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of infrastructure services. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align IT solutions with business objectives and regulatory requirements.