What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Enterprise Architect position at Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles?
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ABOUT THE POSITION
The Court is launching an exciting recruitment for a visionary Senior Enterprise Architect who will help shape the future of our enterprise technology platforms. This role offers the opportunity to lead modernization efforts across compute, storage, virtualization, hybrid cloud, and emerging AI infrastructure. You will influence engineering standards, guide long-term technology strategy, and collaborate with teams across the organization to deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions. Candidates will work with cutting-edge platforms—from VMware and Azure to GPU-accelerated AI systems—to support mission-critical Court operations. This is a unique chance to drive engineering excellence, contribute to major modernization initiatives, and help build the next generation of our hybrid infrastructure. If you are passionate about solving complex technical challenges and shaping enterprise-level platforms, we encourage you to apply and join our forward-thinking team.
- Develop and maintain enterprise infrastructure engineering standards, policies, and governance frameworks to ensure consistent, scalable, and secure technology practices across the Court.
- Analyze current-state and future-state infrastructure environments to create engineering roadmaps that guide long-term technology investments and modernization initiatives.
- Advise Court leadership, project teams, and stakeholders on infrastructure technology decisions, risks, and opportunities to ensure alignment with organizational goals and long-term platform sustainability.
- Research and evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities that enhance operational efficiency, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
- Provide engineering oversight during infrastructure project planning and execution to verify compliance with enterprise standards and ensure successful implementation.
- Assess infrastructure vendor products, services, and proposals to determine alignment with Court requirements and support procurement and contract development activities.
- Evaluate infrastructure performance, capacity, and resource utilization to identify bottlenecks, right-size workloads, and recommend improvements that strengthen reliability, scalability, and resilience.
- Collaborate on enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity strategies to ensure rapid restoration of critical services following unplanned disruptions.
- Partner with infrastructure and operations teams to define deployment standards and support repeatable, consistent provisioning of on-premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure environments.
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THIS IS A TELEWORK ELIGIBLE OPPORTUNITY
This position may be eligible for full, or partial telework following an initial training period and contingent upon the needs of the Court.
SELECTION REQUIREMENTS
To qualify, you must meet one of the following options at the final filing date of this bulletin:
- OPTION I: 9 years' experience in solution architecture, strategic planning, and technology governance.
- OPTION II: Associate’s degree* in information technology, computer science, management information systems, or related field; -AND- 7 years' experience in solution architecture, strategic planning, and technology governance.
- OPTION III: Bachelor's degree* in information technology, computer science, management information systems, or related field; -AND- 5 years' experience in solution architecture, strategic planning, and technology governance.
- OPTION IV: Master's degree* in information technology, computer science, management information systems, or related field; -AND- 3 years' experience in solution architecture, strategic planning, and technology governance.
*To qualify for Options that require educational credentials, you must attach the required documentation to your application. For more information, please visit the Applicant Support page.
Note: Credit for experience is based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a prorate basis (e.g., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience). Overtime does not count toward additional credit.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
Advanced expertise in engineering enterprise-scale compute, storage, virtualization, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure within complex or highly regulated environments.
Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise compute platforms such as Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, and Cisco UCS, including firmware governance, hardware lifecycle planning, and workload performance optimization.
Deep proficiency designing and administering large-scale storage ecosystems (Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell), including SAN fabric engineering, NVMe-oF architectures, snapshot/replication strategy, and multi-tier data protection.
Significant experience engineering VMware vSphere environments and multi-hypervisor platforms (Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI, KVM), with advanced Kubernetes cluster design including RBAC, namespace isolation, and GPU integration.
Proven ability to architect and operate hybrid Azure environments using Azure Arc, ExpressRoute, AKS, and Azure Site Recovery, with strong governance practices around workload placement, cost optimization, and subscription management.
Advanced understanding of datacenter fabric design, including leaf-spine architectures, east-west traffic engineering, Fibre Channel zoning, and high-performance interconnects supporting virtualized and storage-heavy workloads.
Hands-on experience engineering GPU-accelerated AI inferencing platforms (DGX, HGX, A-series/H-series GPUs), including NVLink/NVMe design, parallel file systems, and Kubernetes-based GPU Operator deployments.
Demonstrated success leading enterprise engineering standards, vendor evaluations, and modernization roadmaps, with the ability to influence executives, guide cross-functional teams, and drive long-term infrastructure strategy.
APPLICANT SUPPORT & INFORMATION
Applications must be submitted online. Before submitting your application, carefully review ALL the information detailed on our APPLICANT SUPPORT page linked HERE.
Applicants with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation to participate in the recruitment process may submit a request for accommodation to the email provided below. For additional employment information, please click HERE (Download PDF reader).
WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER APPLYING
This recruitment process may take up to 4-6 weeks to complete. We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the recruitment process, detailed below:
- EVALUATION: Qualifying evaluation of education, training and experience based upon submitted application and supplemental questionnaire.
- ELIGIBILITY: Applicants who best meet job-related qualifications will be placed on an eligible list which will remain active for approximately six (6) months and may be invited to participate in a selection interview. Placement on an eligible list may not result in further consideration, only the most qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Other vacancies may be filled using this list.
Questions regarding this posting may be e-mailed to MPenate@lacourt.org.
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