Enterprise/Solution Architect – Infrastructure & Cloud

Boston Children’s Hospital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Children’s Hospital seeks an Enterprise/Solution Architect to define and govern our infrastructure and cloud architecture. You will lead across AWS, Azure, hybrid, and data centers, shaping roadmaps, landing zones, and security controls.

This role partners with IT leadership to drive modernization, cost-optimization, and strategic initiatives. You will mentor teams, produce architectural artifacts, and guide migration and transformation efforts, ensuring alignment with enterprise

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud, or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years in enterprise, solution, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles.
• Experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure and AWS/Azure/GCP hybrid-cloud solutions.
• Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Experience in large, complex, highly available or regulated organizations; healthcare, academic medical center, or research preferred.
• Experience using CMDB platforms (such as ServiceNow CMDB) to analyze configuration items, service dependencies, and infrastructure changes.
• Experience with Jira and participation in lean intake, demand management, or project delivery processes.
• TOGAF certification required; Azure Solutions Architect Expert or related certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop infrastructure and cloud architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures; identify gaps and technical debt.
• Participate in architecture governance and technology investment decisions.
• Design secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/on-prem environments.
• Define landing zones, connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and workload placement.
• Guide cloud migration, modernization, and automation with FinOps practices.
• Architect WAN/LAN, SD-WAN, data center, compute, storage, and virtualization environments.
• Set standards for availability, performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Evaluate products and designs for security, lifecycle risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Lead architecture assessments and solution designs for complex infrastructure and cloud initiatives.
• Produce diagrams, design documents, decision records, and implementation roadmaps.
• Review vendor proposals against enterprise standards and provide guidance from planning through handoff.
• Evaluate infrastructure as code, automation, AI-enabled infrastructure, and emerging platforms.
• Recommend consolidation, cost optimization, and technical debt reduction.
• Support lean technology intake, assess architectural impact, and prioritize demand.
• Use CMDB data to understand assets, dependencies, and change impacts.
• Manage architecture backlogs and decisions in Jira; collaborate with PMO on capacity planning.
• Act as trusted advisor to IT leadership, project teams, and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Network, Telecom, Data Center, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Explain tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences and mentor staff.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Architecture Governance

Leadership

Networking & Data Center

Cost Optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jira

ServiceNow CMDB

Job description

Position Summary/ Department Summary:

The Enterprise/Solution Architect – Infrastructure & Cloud defines, designs, governs, and advances the organization's enterprise infrastructure and cloud architecture. The role provides strategic and technical leadership across AWS, Microsoft Azure, hybrid cloud, data centers, networking, telecommunications, compute, storage, virtualization, and supporting enterprise technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Develop infrastructure and cloud architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.
• Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures. Identify gaps, dependencies, and technical debt.
• Take part in architecture governance and technology investment decisions, using TOGAF-aligned practices.

Cloud Architecture & Modernization

• Design secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/on-premises environments.
• Define landing zones, connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and workload placement.
• Guide cloud migration, modernization, and automation. Support CCoE guardrails and FinOps practices.

Infrastructure & Network Architecture

• Architect WAN/LAN, SD-WAN, telecommunications, data center, compute, storage, and virtualization environments.
• Set standards for availability, performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Evaluate products and designs for security, lifecycle risk, and total cost of ownership.

Solution Design & Governance

• Lead architecture assessments and solution designs for complex infrastructure and cloud initiatives.
• Produce diagrams, design documents, decision records, and implementation roadmaps.
• Review vendor proposals against enterprise standards. Provide guidance from planning through operational handoff.

Innovation & Cost Optimization

• Evaluate infrastructure as code, automation, AI-enabling infrastructure, and emerging platforms.
• Recommend consolidation, cost optimization, and technical debt reduction.

Intake, Delivery & Capacity Planning

• Support a lean technology intake process that assesses architectural impact and prioritizes demand.
• Use CMDB data to understand assets, dependencies, and change impacts, and promote data quality.
• Manage architecture backlogs and decisions in Jira, using sound project management practices.
• Partner with leaders and the PMO on capacity planning, forecasting, and sequencing of work.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to IT leadership, project teams, and business stakeholders.
• Work with Cloud, Network, Telecom, Data Center, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Explain technical tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical audiences and mentor technical staff.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or 10 years of experience as an Enterprise/Solution Architect required.
• Preferred area of study: Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud, or related technical disciplines
• 5+ years in enterprise, solution, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles
• Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure and AWS or Azure or GCP hybrid-cloud solutions
• Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps
• Experience in large, complex, highly available or regulated organizations; healthcare, academic medical center, or research preferred
• Experience using CMDB platforms (such as ServiceNow CMDB) to analyze configuration items, service dependencies, and infrastructure changes
• Experience with Jira and participation in lean intake, demand management, or project delivery processes

Licensure/ Certifications:

• TOGAF certification required
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert; relevant infrastructure, networking, or cybersecurity certifications preferred