Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Worcester, MA, United States (Remote)

About Us

Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments - creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them. You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day.

Job Description

Summary:

The Infrastructure Solutions Architect designs solutions that apply infrastructure and application best practices across business lines for cloud and on-premises deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure solution architecture for assigned projects, ensuring appropriate standards and processes are defined, established, and followed.

• Lead the development of future-state business area architectures using enterprise architecture frameworks to create competitive advantage, manage costs, and optimize design.

• Lead business area architecture gap analysis, including impact, ROI, time to benefit, strategic alignment, and roadmaps for expected changes.

• Facilitate long-term architecture planning to align business product roadmaps with the ETS roadmap.

• Partner with BU CIO teams to understand short- and long-term technical objectives, including product initiatives, sales pipeline activity, and other factors that may impact portfolio delivery.

• Ensure designed or reviewed solutions meet architectural requirements for scalability, maintainability, reliability, extensibility, usability, and security.

• Apply broad expertise to integrate the IT technical vision across technologies, systems, and organizations.

• Define how technology supports business objectives by conducting feasibility studies, developing high-level business models, preparing business cases, and assessing system implications.

• Ensure business strategies, enterprise transformation activities, and technology direction remain aligned through effective strategies, policies, standards, and practices.

• Set policy and strategy for selecting system architecture components and coordinate design activities to promote consistency and adherence to standards.

• Coordinate the identification and assessment of emerging hardware, software, products, methods, and techniques, evaluating their relevance and briefing staff and management as needed.

• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, development, and PMO teams to meet tactical and strategic deliverables.

• Develop architectures for complex systems that align with requirements agreed upon with internal customers.

• Resolve challenges by analyzing issues, helping the team determine the best course of action, providing direction, and reallocating resources when needed.

• Communicate effectively across all organizational levels, from BU CIOs and PMO leaders to infrastructure engineers and other stakeholders.

• Demonstrates strong leadership, forward-thinking judgment, self-motivation, and the ability to work independently.

• Provides technical oversight and guidance to deployment teams to support on-time, on-budget project implementation.

• Serves as the technical escalation point to remove roadblocks, resolve issues and risks, and keep portfolio and project delivery on track.

• Build strong relationships with development and infrastructure teams to ensure solutions are technically sound, issues are resolved, and projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of IT or technical services experience, including infrastructure architecture across cloud, hybrid, and private hosting environments.
• Strong experience with cloud services and platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent requests, projects, and responsibilities in a growth-oriented environment.
• Proven ability to leverage vendor and consultant expertise to support IT project delivery and operations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and judgment skills.
• Strong leadership and customer-facing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with middleware technologies and databases.

Foundational knowledge of the following technology areas:

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• Cloud services and platforms

• Compute platforms, including Linux and Windows.

• Networking technologies, including LAN, WAN, and WLAN.

• Storage and backup technologies, including SAN environments.

• Server and storage virtualization, including public, hybrid, and private cloud environments.

• Web technologies, including web servers, application servers, and load balancers.

• Security technologies and processes, including firewalls, intrusion prevention, compliance monitoring, and vulnerability management.

• About the Team

• Conduent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender identity, gender expression, sex/gender, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, use of a guide dog or service animal, military/veteran status, citizenship status, basis of genetic information, or any other group protected by law.