Enterprise Architect

Role & responsibilities

Architecture Strategy & Governance

•    Define and maintain the enterprise IT infrastructure and data center architecture roadmap aligned with business and technology strategy.

•    Develop target-state architecture covering data centers, hybrid cloud, compute, storage, network, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security.

•    Lead architecture decisions across on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

•    Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, technology patterns, and technology lifecycle roadmaps.

•    Review and approve High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), solution architectures, and technical proposals for major infrastructure initiatives.

•    Provide architecture governance across infrastructure transformation, data center migration and consolidation, cloud migration, and modernization programs.

Data Center Transformation & Platforms

•    Design and deliver greenfield data center projects from the ground up, including facility and infrastructure planning.

•    Drive brownfield data center transformation, including modernization, legacy upgrades, consolidation, and seamless migration with minimal business disruption.

•    Lead the architecture, strategy, and implementation of the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to support a consumption-based IT model.

•    Define standards for data center design, capacity, availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

•    Drive infrastructure optimization and total cost of ownership reduction through capacity optimization, technology rationalization, and cloud cost optimization.

Technology Architecture

•    Design and govern compute and virtualization platforms, including physical servers, VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

•    Define storage architecture covering SAN, NAS, object storage, backup, archival, replication, and data protection.

•    Develop network architecture covering LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, Internet, data center networking, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, load balancing, and segmentation.

•    Define high availability and disaster recovery architecture, including RPO/RTO, backup strategy, replication, secondary data centers, and cloud-based DR.

•    Define architecture requirements for monitoring, observability, automation, and operational management.

•    Assess emerging technologies including AI infrastructure, GPU computing, HPC, automation, AIOps, software-defined infrastructure, and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Security, Risk & Stakeholder Leadership

•    Ensure infrastructure architecture complies with enterprise security, regulatory, data residency, and compliance requirements.

•    Evaluate and recommend technology platforms, products, and vendors based on functionality, scalability, security, TCO, and business requirements.

•    Identify technology risks, technical debt, and architectural gaps, and define remediation roadmaps.

•    Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Network, Cloud, Infrastructure Operations, Application, Data, and Enterprise Architecture teams.

•    Provide technical leadership during RFP/RFI activities, solution evaluation, vendor selection, and commercial discussions.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

•    Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

•    10-15+ years of IT infrastructure experience, with significant exposure to architecture and large-scale transformation.

•    Strong experience in enterprise infrastructure and data center architecture, including large-scale hybrid cloud environments.

•    Experience with architecture governance, technology standards, and design review boards.

•    Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage CIO/CTO leaders, infrastructure leadership, cybersecurity, application, and business teams.

•    Certifications such as TOGAF, Azure/AWS/GCP, VMware, Cisco, ITIL, or other relevant architecture credentials are advantageous.

Qualifications

Educational qualification:

Garduate

Experience :

10-15 Years

Mandatory/requires Skills :
Data Center Architecture , Cloud, Compute, Storage, Net

Preferred candidate profile

Perks and benefits