Principal Infrastructure Architect – Enterprise Platforms

American Electric Power Co.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power Co. is seeking an experienced architect to lead enterprise infrastructure architecture.

The role focuses on translating business and technical requirements into scalable architectures spanning server platforms, OS, storage, databases, identity services, automation, and core platforms. The candidate will develop and govern architecture patterns, roadmaps, and technology ecosystems to ensure secure, resilient, and supportable solutions aligned with strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.
• 8 years of relevant work experience is required.
• An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver infrastructure solutions that address complex business and technology requirements while ensuring scalability, resiliency, security, and operational supportability.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to identify challenges, evaluate requirements, and develop strategic infrastructure solution options.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture on infrastructure standards, reference architectures, design patterns, technology roadmaps, and engineering best practices.
• Lead architecture and design efforts across infrastructure domains including Windows and Linux platforms, storage, databases, identity services (Active Directory and LDAP), automation, and enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Produce architectural deliverables, technical designs, roadmaps, and governance artifacts with minimal supervision.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert for infrastructure technology strategy, platform modernization, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to evaluate emerging technologies, modernization opportunities, and platform lifecycle management strategies.
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to engineers to strengthen infrastructure engineering capabilities and promote consistent design practices.
• Work closely with project teams, leadership, and operations teams to ensure successful delivery of infrastructure initiatives and alignment with enterprise architecture objectives.
• Participate in key project and operational decisions, ensuring trade-offs between risk, cost, supportability, security, and delivery timelines are thoughtfully evaluated.
• Assess the health, maturity, and future-state direction of infrastructure platforms and services, developing strategic roadmaps that improve reliability, efficiency, automation, and business enablement.
• Drive continuous improvement through infrastructure automation, standardization, and adoption of modern engineering practices to reduce operational complexity and increase service quality.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Infrastructure design

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Active Directory

LDAP

Job description

American Electric Power Co. is seeking an experienced architect to lead enterprise infrastructure architecture.

The role focuses on translating business and technical requirements into scalable architectures spanning server platforms, OS, storage, databases, identity services, automation, and core platforms. The candidate will develop and govern architecture patterns, roadmaps, and technology ecosystems to ensure secure, resilient, and supportable solutions aligned with strategic objectives.