Distinguished Architect - Asset and Infrastructure Transformation - Remote

Amtrak; Oregon; Híbrido; USD 179.000 - 232.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health Insurance

401K with Employer Match

Generous Paid Time Off

Rail Pass Privileges

Descripción de la vacante

Amtrak seeks a Distinguished Architect - Asset and Infrastructure Transformation to guide enterprise architecture, align portfolio investments with strategic goals, and reduce time to capability while controlling costs.

You will communicate target states and roadmaps to leadership, mentor teams, and drive cross-domain architectural patterns. Collaborate with Solution Architects to deliver scalable, secure designs across transportation assets and infrastructure.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data and intelligence or related field with 13+ year’s relevant experience or equivalent work experience; 5+ years in a Principal/Senior Principal Architect role.
• Direct large-scale architecture initiatives over $7 million with multi-stakeholder involvement.
• Expertise in asset lifecycle management, AI-driven predictive maintenance, digital twins, and real-time analytics for asset health.
• Experience architecting integrations across enterprise asset platforms (IBM Maximo, SAP EAM, Infor EAM) using event-driven microservices.
• Experience with IoT/edge architectures, GIS integration (Esri ArcGIS, Hexagon GeoMedia, Bentley Map).
• Proven ability to lead architecture across multiple domains and communicate with senior leadership.

Responsabilidades

• Set architectural vision for core capabilities and patterns across portfolios.
• Governance of architecture domains to ensure value alignment with strategic goals.
• Promote secure, scalable, and compliant reference architectures and standards.
• Drive adoption of shared resources and patterns across portfolios.
• Mentor other architects and foster a culture of excellence.
• Create roadmaps and plans for DT architecture evolution and business value.
• Translate requirements into robust designs with Solution Architects and engineering leads.
• Collaborate with business units to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.

Conocimientos

Architecture leadership

Enterprise integration

IoT security

Geospatial data

Communication skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

IBM Maximo

SAP EAM

Infor EAM

Descripción del empleo

Your success is a train ride away! As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.Are you ready to join our team?Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

Job Summary

The Distinguished Architect - Asset and Infrastructure Transformation is responsible for providing visionary companywide architecture services to ensure portfolio technology investments are in alignment with corporate goals and its ability to move towards the future in an evolving business environment. As a Digital Technology expert, this role will utilize communication, influence, guidance, and governance processes to maximize return on technology investment, and reduce time to capability, while minimizing operational costs. The Distinguished Architect will use visionary strategic thinking to choose technology capabilities, strategize and build around them to bring value to business relevant capability change.As part of the DT architecture team the Distinguished Architect will be responsible for communicating technology target state, roadmap and change progress to portfolio leaders and other stakeholders. They will use their communication and influence skills to promote awareness and understanding of architecture principles across the organization, evangelizing for strategic enterprise change, executing strategy, technical leadership.

Essential Functions

Set up the architectural vision for core capabilities and aligning patterns to allow for consistency and reuseDefine enterprise principles, patterns and guidance that help in technology data capabilities, platforms and infrastructure, how applications are built, deployed, and maintained to align with strategic needs and maximizing technology investmentsProvide Oversight and Governance to the current, interim and potential future state of key architecture domains to ensure value alignment with the organization's overall goals and objectives.Ensure the reference architectures, standards, and guidelines of the organization's technology is safe, secure, stable and compliant with industry standards.Drive adoption and re-use of the preferred resources, processes and technology across multiple or cross functional portfolios.Mentor other architects and DT teams, providing guidance and fostering a culture of excellence.Effectively communicate at all levels from senior leadership and throughout the companyCreate strategic roadmaps and comprehensive plans that outline how the Digital Technology architecture will evolve to drive organization change, support the business strategy over time, and ensure DT initiatives are prioritized based on their expected business value and strategic importance.Guide Investment Decisions Aligning technology plans and investments to business vision and strategy that is necessary to ensure we are building the right things.Envision architecture patterns and strategies that drive significant competitive differentiation and business transformation]Solve the most intricate and ambiguous architectural challenges that span multiple domains, systems, and business units, providing definitive technical direction.Design, govern, and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for cross domain business problems.Translate complex technical ideas into digestible concepts for both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.Act as a liaison between engineering and business teams to ensure alignment and understanding.Assist in the identification, evaluation, and adoption of groundbreaking technologies and architectural patterns that drive significant competitive differentiation and business transformationWork closely with Solution Architects and engineering leads to translate requirements into robust technical design on for our most complex technical solutionsIn our major enterprise initiatives and complex systems of systems, ensuring products are scalable, secure, performant, and maintainable.Provide expert technical guidance, and contribute to the evolution of our architectural standards.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data and intelligence or related field with 13+ year’s relevant experience or equivalent work experience with at least 5 years in a Principal or Senior Principal Architect role within a large, complex enterprise.Must have repeated experience successfully directing significantly complex architecture initiatives over $7 million, developing capabilities that typically involve different stakeholders, multiple lines of business, many solution varieties, highly regulated environments, business transformations at mass scale.Advanced expertise in asset lifecycle management and engineering systems, including AI-driven predictive maintenance, condition-based monitoring, machine learning, digital twins, and real-time streaming analytics for asset health diagnostics and failure prediction.Proven ability to architect scalable integrations across enterprise asset management platforms such as IBM Maximo, SAP EAM, and Infor EAM using event-driven microservices, data virtualization, and domain-driven design. Strong experience developing secure IoT and edge architectures for remote telemetry, sensor fusion, and autonomous asset management, as well as integrating GIS platforms such as Esri ArcGIS, Hexagon GeoMedia, and Bentley Map with enterprise asset repositories.Demonstrated success delivering geospatially enabled asset intelligence, risk scoring, and field mobility solutions for regulated, distributed, and infrastructure-intensive environments, including transportation, utilities, plants, and facilities.Proven contribution to the architecture profession or industry, such as publications, research, intellectual property, innovation, development of training, or contributions to standards bodies or professional organizations. They must also have contributed to the development of professional architects in sharing this knowledge.Experience creating significant business value realization with $500 million+ or more enterprises as an architect providing vision and choosing platforms. moving organizations forward and scaled for future initiatives.Requires demonstrated ability to manage multiple architecture engagements and effectively plan and utilize collaborative cross functional teams to ensure the architecture objectives obtain key results.Must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, work well with others in an integrated team environment, and must be self-motivated.Relationship building and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers.Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance priorities across multiple stakeholders.Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience leveraging data to inform decision-making.Technical and critical thinking expertise to break complex processes and products into component modular modern architectures.Proven ability to align resources, processes and technology initiatives with business strategies across multiple lines of business (LOBs) or business units

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in business or related field17+ years of progressive experience in technology and architecture, with at least 12 years in a Principal or Senior Principal Architect role within a large, complex enterprise.Travel and Transportation experience or relevant technology domain experienceExperience with governance, risk, regulatory and compliance.The Architect’s skills and knowledge should span multiple architecture domains (e.g., Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture & Information/Data Architecture)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent applied experience.13+ years’ experience in relevant industry experienceStrong understanding of Architecture best practice and value methodologyKnowledge of IT, OT, domain and business architectureExperience with Agile process for business value realization

Salary and Compensation

The salary/hourly range is $179,300.00 – $232,416.00. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.

Health and Wellbeing

• Financial and Retirement
• Work and Family Life Support
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401K with Employer Match
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Wellness Programs
• Railroad Retirement Benefits
• Paid Caregiving Days and Backup Care
• Health Savings Account
• Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
• Fertility and Family Building Benefits
• No-cost Personal Health Advocate
• Student Loan Assistance
• Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance
• Medical Plan Opt-out Credit
• Tuition and Education Reimbursement
• Paid Family Leave
• Life Insurance
• Rail Pass Privileges
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• No-cost Financial Advisor Sessions
• Commuter and Flexible Spending Accounts

Requisition ID

167492

Work Arrangement

02-Remote Optional

Travel Requirements

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