Distinguished Lead Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture

Global Foundries; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 220,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries seeks a Distinguished Member of Staff for Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture to define long-term architectural vision and roadmaps across data centers, cloud platforms, and automation. You will lead cross-functional teams in infrastructure engineering, security, and operations to drive digital transformation and manufacturing uptime.

The role requires deep domain expertise, 15+ years in architecture leadership, and the ability to communicate strategic options to executive

Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise infrastructure architecture experience.
• Proven ability to define enterprise-wide technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Strong communication to translate complex architecture into business impact.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy, standards, and roadmaps across hybrid domains.
• Set target-state architecture for colocation, data centers, compute, storage, DR, virtualization, and edge platforms.
• Lead architectural reviews for major investments, modernization, and risk mitigation programs.
• Establish workload placement across public/private cloud, colocation, and on-prem environments.
• Drive governance and standards to improve consistency across regions and units.
• Identify and mitigate infrastructure risks, debt, and resiliency gaps.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and operations to embed Zero Trust, observability, and automation in patterns.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide practical adoption at scale.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Cloud/hybrid architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

TOGAF certification

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

The Distinguished Member of Staff (DMTS) - Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture is the company's foremost technical authority for infrastructure architecture. This role is responsible for defining the long-term architectural vision, strategy, standards, and reference architectures for all enterprise infrastructure domains, including datacentres, colocation facilities, cloud platforms, compute, storage, networking, observability, platform services, and infrastructure automation.The DMTS serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and architecture governance bodies, shaping multi-year technology roadmaps that enable business growth, operational resilience, cybersecurity, manufacturing uptime, and digital transformation. The role provides technical leadership across infrastructure engineering, operations, cybersecurity, cloud, enterprise architecture, and solution delivery organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps across hybrid infrastructure domains.
• Set target-state architecture for colocation, data center, compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, virtualization, Kubernetes, and edge platforms.
• Lead architectural reviews for major infrastructure investments, platform decisions, modernization initiatives, lifecycle plans, and risk mitigation programs.
• Establish workload placement principles across public cloud, private cloud, colocation, and on-premises environments, balancing cost, resilience, performance, security, and operational complexity.
• Drive architecture governance, decision frameworks, and technology standards that improve consistency across regions, manufacturing sites, and business units.
• Identify and reduce infrastructure-related risks, technical debt, vendor concentration exposure, scalability constraints, and resiliency gaps.
• Partner with cybersecurity and operations teams to embed Zero Trust, segmentation, secure connectivity, observability, automation, and compliance requirements into infrastructure patterns.
• Evaluate emerging technologies such as AIOps, autonomous operations, software-defined infrastructure, platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, and edge computing, and guide practical adoption.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, develop reusable guidance, and represent the organization as a recognized thought leader in enterprise infrastructure architecture.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent senior technical experience may be considered.
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, engineering, or technology leadership roles within large-scale, mission-critical environments.
• Deep expertise across multiple infrastructure domains, including storage, compute, virtualization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and automation.
• Proven ability to define enterprise-wide technology strategies, architecture standards, target-state models, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Strong experience leading architecture governance, executive-level technology decisions, and cross-functional alignment across IT, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical architecture into clear business impact, decision options, and investment recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and automation at enterprise scale.
• Experience supporting highly regulated, manufacturing, semiconductor, or other 24x7 mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated industry influence through publications, patents, conference speaking, standards participation, or enterprise-wide innovation leadership.

Expected Salary Range

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.

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An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.

GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory. All policies and processes which pertain to employees including recruitment, selection, training, utilization, promotion, compensation, benefits, extracurricular programs, and termination are created and implemented without regard to age, ethnicity, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic or category specified by local, state or federal law.