Senior Enterprise Architect

ivision; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH flexibility

Job summary

ivision is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to act as a strategic technical advisor across the full customer lifecycle, spanning enterprise infrastructure, cloud, security, and business applications. You will translate business strategy into current-state assessments, target-state architectures, and actionable roadmaps delivered to executives and technical teams.

The role includes pre-sales and advisory work (~70/30), executive workshops, and delivering client-ready architectures and SOWs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years progressive experience in infrastructure, cloud, or security roles, including 3+ years in an enterprise architecture, principal consulting, or solutions architecture capacity.
• Experience assessing complex, multi-domain technology environments and producing target-state architectures and roadmaps.
• Broad fluency across networking, compute, cloud, identity, security, and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Lead current-state assessments of clients’ infrastructure environments across network, data center, cloud, and security.
• Develop target-state architectures and multi-year transformation roadmaps aligned to business strategy and compliance.
• Map assessment findings to ivision’s services portfolio and identify delivery motions for each initiative.

Skills

Executive presence

Client engagement

Strategic thinking

Cross-domain fluency

Education

Four-year university degree in CS/IS/engineering

TOGAF certification (preferred)

Tools

Azure

AWS

TOGAF

Zero Trust

Job description

Employment Type: Full-time

Reports To: VP, Services Portfolio & GTM

Location: Hybrid - Atlanta, GA (WFH flexibility)

Travel: ~25% (client meetings, workshops, assessments, industry events).

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to serve as a strategic technical advisor across the full customer lifecycle. This role takes a holistic view of a client’s overall technology environment - enterprise infrastructure, public cloud, digital workspace, security, and business applications - and translates business strategy, risk, and compliance drivers into current-state assessments, target-state architectures, and actionable transformation roadmaps aligned to ivision’s services portfolio and our ASSESS - ARCHITECT - TRANSFORM - OPERATE delivery lifecycle.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable whiteboarding enterprise architectures with executives, facilitating strategy and roadmap workshops, and engaging credibly with engineering teams across infrastructure domains. A strong background in security architecture and/or network architecture is highly beneficial - the ability to evaluate an environment through a security and connectivity lens is a key differentiator for this role.

You will produce client-ready deliverables (environment assessments, reference architectures, multi-year roadmaps, business cases, Statements of Work) and present findings and recommendations to both technical and executive stakeholders.

Time Allocation Expectations

• Pre-Sales / Solution Consulting - ~70%: Discovery, requirements, scoping, solution architectures, LOE estimates, proposal & RFP support, demos/workshops.
• Enterprise Architecture & Advisory - ~30%: Current-state assessments, target-state architectures, transformation roadmaps, architecture governance, executive advisory, design assurance during delivery.

Key Responsibility Areas

Enterprise Architecture & Advisory (~30%)

• Lead current-state assessments of clients’ overall infrastructure environments - network, data center, compute and virtualization, public and hybrid cloud, endpoints and digital workspace, identity, security, and data protection.
• Develop target-state architectures and phased, multi-year transformation roadmaps aligned to business strategy, technology maturity, budget, and compliance requirements.
• Map assessment findings and recommendations to the full breadth of ivision’s services portfolio - enterprise infrastructure, public cloud, digital workspace, security, and business applications - identifying the right delivery motion (consulting, managed services, or product lifecycle) for each initiative.
• Facilitate strategy and roadmap workshops (cloud strategy, data center exit, network transformation, Zero Trust, identity modernization, technology debt and lifecycle planning).
• Build and maintain reference architectures, architecture standards, and decision frameworks that are reusable across client engagements.
• Provide architecture governance and design assurance as engagements move from architecture into delivery, keeping implementation aligned to the approved target state.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives, translating technical findings into risk, cost, and business language.

Pre-Sales / Client Engagement (~70%)

• Participate in discovery calls with prospects across all customer segments (mid-market, enterprise, regulated industries, etc.).
• Translate business, risk, and compliance drivers into technical solution designs that span the ivision portfolio rather than a single technology domain.
• Draft high-level architectures, scoping estimates, and assumptions for proposals & SOWs.
• Support RFP / RFQ responses with technical content, architectural approach, and differentiators.
• Provide sales engineering support in partnership with Account Executives, articulating value, ROI, and integration paths across customer tool stacks.
• Identify expansion and cross-portfolio opportunities surfaced through assessments and architecture engagements, and feed them back to the account team.

Executive Communication & Workshops

• Lead or co-lead executive / board-level briefings, translating technical findings into risk and business language.
• Facilitate strategy and envisioning workshops with CIO / CTO / CISO stakeholders and their teams.
• Present outcomes, options, and next steps in clear, concise, business-aligned formats.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years progressive experience in infrastructure, cloud, or security roles, including 3+ years in an enterprise architecture, principal consulting, or solutions architecture capacity.
• Demonstrated experience assessing complex, multi-domain technology environments and producing target-state architectures and transformation roadmaps.
• Broad, cross-domain technical fluency spanning networking, compute and virtualization, storage and data protection, public cloud (Azure and/or AWS), identity, endpoint / digital workspace, and security.
• Experience developing architectures and roadmaps aligned to recognized frameworks (e.g., TOGAF or similar EA methods; NIST CSF, CIS Controls, or Zero Trust for security alignment) - and the judgment to right-size formality for mid-market and enterprise clients.
• Experience working directly with sales teams: discovery, sizing, solution shaping, technical proposal input, and customer Q&A.
• Proven success delivering customer-facing documentation and presenting to executive audiences (CIO, CTO, CISO, boards, non-technical leadership).
• Strong written communication: assessments, architecture documents, statements of work, executive summaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in security architecture is highly beneficial: Zero Trust design, Microsoft security ecosystem (Entra ID, Sentinel, Defender), EDR/XDR, MDR service integration, SASE/SSE (e.g., Zscaler), and vulnerability management.
• Background in network architecture is highly beneficial: enterprise and campus networking, SD-WAN, data center networking, hybrid cloud connectivity, and network security.
• Hands-on history with the Microsoft ecosystem (Azure, Entra ID, M365) and hybrid platforms (VMware, Nutanix); experience with data center migrations and multi-cloud architectures.
• Familiarity with managed services operating models and how architecture decisions affect ongoing operations, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to map platform and architecture controls to NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001 compliance requirements.
• Four-year university degree or college diploma in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Industry- recognized certifications preferred (e.g., TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, CCNP/CCDE, CISSP).

Core Competencies & Attributes

• Executive presence; able to summarize complex technical and architectural risk in business terms.
• Systems thinker who connects business drivers, technology domains, and operational realities into one coherent picture.
• Consultative problem solver who can tailor solutions across varied maturity levels.
• Comfortable context switching between pre-sales and advisory workstreams.
• Organized and self-directed individual contributor; able to manage multiple concurrent client engagements.
• High attention to quality in written deliverables and presentation materials.

Background & Screening Requirements

• Pre-employment background check required.
• Pre-employment drug test required.
• Additional client-mandated screenings may apply based on engagement type.