Enterprise Solutions Architect — Cloud, API & Security

Vizient, Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking an experienced enterprise solution architect to provide leadership across the sourcing and contracting technology portfolio.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and clients to design secure, scalable enterprise solutions and define end-to-end architectures aligned with governance and security requirements. You will mentor teams, establish architecture standards, and drive the evolution of platforms across multiple products and engineering teams in a

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud-native and distributed systems using Microsoft Azure required; comparable AWS architecture experience with transferable cloud expertise will be considered.
• Strong experience with application architecture, API design, integration patterns, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems required.
• Experience architecting solutions across multiple enterprise applications, products, or engineering teams required.
• Proficiency with development languages and frameworks such as Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript, Angular, or React required.
• Knowledge of enterprise security, governance, identity, authentication, authorization, and modern security architecture principles required.
• Experience with modern engineering practices, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud integration services required.
• Experience with Strategic Sourcing, procurement, contracting, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), or related enterprise capabilities preferred.
• Relevant cloud architecture or industry certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solution and reference architectures spanning enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, data, identity, and security.
• Translate business capabilities and requirements into secure, scalable, resilient technology architectures and reusable capabilities.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple sourcing and contracting products and guide engineering teams throughout solution design and delivery.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Platform Engineering, CloudOps, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and clients to align solutions with business and technology objectives.
• Establish and communicate architecture standards, shared services, reusable capabilities, engineering practices, and reference architectures.
• Design solutions that meet enterprise requirements for security, scalability, performance, resiliency, availability, maintainability, observability, privacy, and compliance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, tools, and libraries and lead proofs of concept and reference implementations to accelerate adoption.
• Mentor engineering teams in solution architecture, application design, cloud technologies, and modern engineering practices.
• Provide architectural leadership and technical governance for solutions delivered by internal teams and implementation partners.
• Drive the long-term technical evolution of sourcing and contracting platforms in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Security

DevOps practices

Education

Relevant degree preferred

Tools

Java

C#

.NET

JavaScript

Angular

React

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking an experienced enterprise solution architect to provide leadership across the sourcing and contracting technology portfolio.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and clients to design secure, scalable enterprise solutions and define end-to-end architectures aligned with governance and security requirements. You will mentor teams, establish architecture standards, and drive the evolution of platforms across multiple products and engineering teams in a