Senior Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Architect

Location: Preferred Locations: Alpharetta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Garden City, NY; Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Purchase, NY

Acceptable Locations: Chicago, IL; Conshohocken, PA; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Fargo, ND; Houston, TX; Lenexa, KS; London, England, UK; Lubbock, TX; Mt Juliet, TN; Topeka, KS(Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract Position

ROLE SUMMARY

The Senior Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing and implementing enterprise‑class infrastructure solutions that support organizational objectives. The role focuses on defining technology standards, leading integration and migration efforts, optimizing performance, and ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and architectural best practices. This position requires deep technical expertise across cloud and on‑premises systems, strong strategic planning capabilities, and the ability to guide complex infrastructure programs from concept through execution.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead infrastructure integration activities across user experience, collaboration platforms, data center/cloud architecture, directory services, and Office 365 environments.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture to design and publish standards, blueprints, patterns, principles, best practices, and technical guidelines.
• Define strategic direction for public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server platforms, databases, and security technologies.
• Promote the use of shared systems and tools to reduce costs and enable cross‑team collaboration.
• Ensure solutions do not duplicate existing capabilities and remain aligned with IT and business strategies.
• Serve as a level‑4 escalation point for operational teams, providing problem resolution and root‑cause analysis.
• Plan lifecycle and refresh cycles to ensure solutions align with the broader application, desktop, network, server, and storage ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain a long‑term infrastructure technology vision, assessing current capabilities and future needs.
• Ensure installations and upgrades follow all policies, procedures, and licensing requirements.
• Identify, implement, and monitor best practices for infrastructure architecture.
• Review software requirements and design solutions for high availability and disaster recovery.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 12 years of IT infrastructure experience, including at least 5 years working as an infrastructure architect.
• Ability to lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams in delivering enterprise‑grade solutions.
• Expert knowledge of Windows Server, enterprise networking, public cloud IaaS/PaaS, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Active Directory/Entra ID, SQL Server, virtualization platforms, and enterprise SAN storage.
• Cloud certifications in Azure or AWS at the architecture level.

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong understanding of enterprise application infrastructure and experience designing enterprise‑class architecture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to present architectural recommendations to C‑level executives.
• Experience leading complex infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting merger and acquisition infrastructure planning.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to understand the broader technology landscape.
• High curiosity and interest in emerging technologies.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Experience in IT consulting preferred.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field.