Senior Enterprise Architect – Azure & Microsoft Cloud

CDM Smith; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our Corporate Business Technology team. This role designs, governs, and improves the firm’s enterprise application architecture aligned with our Microsoft-centric, cloud-first IT strategy.

This individual will define architecture standards, roadmaps, governance models, and reusable patterns that connect business capabilities with scalable, secure, and integrated technology solutions across Azure, M365, Power Platform, Copilot, and

Qualifications

• 6 years of related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise architecture blueprints across business, application, data, and technology domains.
• Design integration patterns across enterprise systems using Microsoft Azure services such as API Management, Logic Apps, and related cloud capabilities.
• Define reference architectures, reusable solution patterns, and architecture guardrails that support secure, scalable, and standardized delivery.
• Document and maintain architecture standards, roadmaps, solution patterns, and related artifacts within ServiceNow EA/APM or similar tools.
• Support architecture governance processes, including architecture review boards, solution approvals, and adherence to enterprise standards.
• Partner with delivery teams and stakeholders as a trusted architecture advisor, helping identify risks, dependencies, and integration challenges across platforms.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of enterprise architecture practices, maturity, and alignment with target-state roadmaps.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

TOGAF

Microsoft Azure

Power Platform

ServiceNow APM

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud integration

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ServiceNow APM

EA tools

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our Corporate Business Technology team. This role designs, governs, and improves the firm’s enterprise application architecture aligned with our Microsoft-centric, cloud-first IT strategy.

This individual will define architecture standards, roadmaps, governance models, and reusable patterns that connect business capabilities with scalable, secure, and integrated technology solutions across Azure, M365, Power Platform, Copilot, and