Sr. Infrastructure Architect

• Develop and maintain multi-year infrastructure architecture roadmaps focused on resiliency, automation, self-service capabilities, and reducing operational overhead across systems and projects.
• Provide architectural leadership across enterprise infrastructure domains, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with corporate standards and long‑term strategy.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team to provide visibility into the infrastructure domain and enable effective enterprise‑level planning and alignment.
• Architect and guide solutions that improve redundancy, performance, and availability for business‑critical platforms and applications (e.g., customer‑facing ordering and sales systems).
• Contribute to architectural decisions related to application delivery, enterprise connectivity, and platform integration across distributed and hybrid environments.
• Participate in architectural discussions supporting cloud‑native and hybrid initiatives, ensuring alignment across infrastructure, security, and development practices.
• Lead technology evaluations and proof‑of‑concepts; recommend future‑state infrastructure improvements and modernization opportunities.
• Support enterprise disaster recovery and backup architecture by ensuring alignment with broader infrastructure standards and target‑state architecture.
• Contribute to infrastructure architecture governance, principles, standards, and compliance across the organization.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex architectural risks impacting availability, security, or operational stability.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to identify opportunities where infrastructure can act as a strategic partner, fostering strong bi‑directional communication and trust.
• Contribute to IT vendor contract negotiations by assessing operational requirements, analyzing vendor proposals, and ensuring solutions provide optimal value within budgetary constraints.
• Mentor team members by reinforcing strategic and operational thinking, encouraging proactive problem‑solving rather than reactive, ticket‑driven behavior.
• Guide teams in reducing operational noise (e.g., ticket volume and reactive support) through architectural improvements, automation, and self‑service solutions.
• Provide architectural oversight for projects and guide technical workstreams as required.
• Maintain clear and current architecture documentation, diagrams, and reference materials to support operational clarity and long‑term planning.

• High‑level influence and impact: They'll shape the long‑term infrastructure strategy across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments, directly influencing critical business‑wide technology decisions.
• Opportunities for leadership and growth: The role positions them as the senior technical authority, leading cross‑domain initiatives, mentoring teams, and driving modernization and automation efforts.
• Challenging, meaningful work: They'll tackle complex architectural problems, improve system resilience and performance, and reduce operational noise through innovation.
• Visibility with business and IT leadership: Frequent collaboration with executives and enterprise architects enhances their strategic exposure and career trajectory.
• A chance to modernize a core environment: They'll guide future‑state architecture, evaluate new technologies, and lead transformation in a manufacturing setting-work that is both impactful and future‑focused.

Michael Page