Remote Systems Architect — Cloud, IAM & Platform Design

Shield; Tampa (FL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield Technology Partners is seeking a Systems Engineer, Architecture to own the long-term design of Shield's internal technology environment. You’ll shape the roadmap and reference designs for how our core platforms evolve over the next two to five years, ensuring coherence, security, and scalability across tools like M365, Entra ID, Intune, and our SaaS ecosystem.

You’ll lead architecture decisions, set standards, and partner with IT security to embed Zero Trust, MFA, encryption, and EDR.

Qualifications

• Ability to think in systems and lifecycles, design for the future state.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Ownership: Define and maintain target-state architecture for Shield's internal systems and roadmap.
• Standards and Governance: Enforce configuration standards, security baselines, naming, tenancy, and integration patterns.
• Identity and Access Design: Own the identity architecture across Entra ID and connected SaaS, including SSO and privileged access models.
• Integration Architecture: Design how internal business systems connect, including HRIS-driven provisioning, PSA and ticketing platforms, and automation flows.
• M&A Integration Design: Assess acquired companies' technology stacks, define migration and consolidation plans for tenants, identity, and endpoints.
• Platform Lifecycle Planning: Evaluate emerging platforms and plan the retirement and replacement of legacy systems.
• Security Architecture: Partner with IT security to embed Zero Trust principles, device compliance, encryption, MFA, and EDR coverage into platform design.
• Documentation: Maintain architecture diagrams, design standards, and decision records so the environment is understandable and supportable by the broader IS&T team.

Skills

Architecture Mindset

Microsoft 365/Entra ID

Endpoint Architecture

Identity & Access Management

Cloud Infrastructure

Integration & Automation

Security Fundamentals

M&A Experience

Communication

Job description

Shield Technology Partners is seeking a Systems Engineer, Architecture to own the long-term design of Shield's internal technology environment. You’ll shape the roadmap and reference designs for how our core platforms evolve over the next two to five years, ensuring coherence, security, and scalability across tools like M365, Entra ID, Intune, and our SaaS ecosystem.

You’ll lead architecture decisions, set standards, and partner with IT security to embed Zero Trust, MFA, encryption, and EDR.