Senior Enterprise Architect

Optimize Search Group; Addison (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimize Search Group is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect with a strong infrastructure background to guide the design and evolution of its technology environment from hands-on implementation to strategy.

This role demands deep experience across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, identity, networking, and security, with the ability to bridge detailed engineering work and broader architecture decisions in a hybrid Addison, TX setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure engineering or architecture experience.
• Deep Microsoft infrastructure and cloud experience.
• Strong identity and access management knowledge.
• Solid networking and infrastructure security background.
• Strong scripting and automation experience.
• Experience with modern cloud and DevOps environments.
• Ability to design solutions and provide technical leadership.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• This is an excellent opportunity for a highly technical infrastructure professional who has progressed into enterprise architecture and wants to remain hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure architecture and modernization initiatives.
• Develop technical standards, architecture patterns, and technology roadmaps.
• Design and review enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• Provide technical direction across infrastructure, identity, networking, and security.
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and improved reliability.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, applications, and IT leadership teams.
• Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations based on business and technical requirements.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Cloud architecture

Identity and access management

Networking

Security

Scripting and automation

DevOps

Communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Active Directory

PowerShell

Job description

Location: Addison, TX - Hybrid (3 days onsite)

Employment Type: Direct Hire

A leading organization is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect with a strong infrastructure background to help guide the design and evolution of its technology environment.

This is a hands-on architecture role for someone with deep experience across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, identity, networking, and security. The ideal candidate can work from detailed technical engineering through broader architecture and technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure architecture and modernization initiatives.
• Develop technical standards, architecture patterns, and technology roadmaps.
• Design and review enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• Provide technical direction across infrastructure, identity, networking, and security.
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and improved reliability.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, applications, and IT leadership teams.
• Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations based on business and technical requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure engineering or architecture experience.
• Deep Microsoft infrastructure and cloud experience.
• Strong identity and access management knowledge.
• Solid networking and infrastructure security background.
• Strong scripting and automation experience.
• Experience with modern cloud and DevOps environments.
• Ability to design solutions and provide technical leadership.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• This is an excellent opportunity for a highly technical infrastructure professional who has progressed into enterprise architecture and wants to remain hands-on.