Front-Office Architect: Customer & Revenue Transformation

GCI Communication Corp; Anchorage (AK); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GCI Communication Corp is seeking a Principal Architect to define and advance architecture direction, partnering with product, engineering, delivery, and operations to translate business needs into sustainable solutions. This role drives standards, roadmaps, and governance across multiple domains to improve agility and reduce risk.

Essential to this position are deep expertise in architecture modeling, business-technology alignment, and cross-functional leadership, with a focus on scalable,

Qualifications

• Lead complex architecture initiatives and guide cross-functional teams.
• Define current- and future-state architecture requirements and roadmaps.
• Provide expert consulting and strategic recommendations to resolve complex challenges.
• Participate in setting architectural direction and advise on enterprise strategy and development.
• Develop and enhance architecture documentation, templates, standards, principles, policies, and guidelines.
• Mentor architects and technical staff and review architecture/design deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Assess business objectives, customer needs, operational priorities, current-state capabilities, technologies, processes, operating models, risks, dependencies, architecture gaps, technical debt, lifecycle risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Develop target-state architectures, transition states, and roadmaps that guide technology investment, solution design, and implementation planning.
• Create architecture artifacts, models, standards, patterns, reference designs, principles, non-functional requirements, and design guardrails; evaluate alternatives and recommend fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews and governance forums, applying architecture standards, policies, principles, and industry practices.
• Manage architecture risks, dependencies, technical debt, lifecycle considerations, exceptions, reusable assets, repositories, and technology rationalization efforts.
• Partner with product, delivery, engineering, and operations teams to provide architecture guidance through planning, design, delivery, and operationalization.
• Support road mapping, dependency management, implementation sequencing, decision facilitation, trade-off discussions, and alignment to intended architecture outcomes.
• Improve architecture methods, tools, standards, governance practices, operating models, reusable patterns, communities of practice, mentoring, knowledge sharing, innovation, and simplification.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Roadmap development

Governance & standards

Cloud technologies

Security technologies

Data technologies

Risk & dependency management

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Data Management, Cybersecurity, or related discipline

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

GCI Communication Corp is seeking a Principal Architect to define and advance architecture direction, partnering with product, engineering, delivery, and operations to translate business needs into sustainable solutions. This role drives standards, roadmaps, and governance across multiple domains to improve agility and reduce risk.

Essential to this position are deep expertise in architecture modeling, business-technology alignment, and cross-functional leadership, with a focus on scalable,