Senior Enterprise Architect – Infra & Cloud Solutions

Global-Enterprise-Services,-LL; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Enterprise Services, LLC is seeking an Enterprise Architect to support enterprise IT and infrastructure initiatives in Illinois, with Chicago-area focus. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to assess environments, design architectures, and oversee implementations.

The ideal candidate has broad IT expertise, hands-on architecture design experience, and familiarity with DoIT-style infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Eight or more years of progressive enterprise IT experience, including at least three years in enterprise, infrastructure, or solution architecture.
• Experience conducting site surveys, technical discovery, infrastructure assessments, and requirements gathering.
• Demonstrated ability to develop architecture designs and provide technical oversight through implementation.
• Experience supporting Illinois DoIT infrastructure or enterprise IT environments for agencies or customers of comparable size and complexity.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture standards, technology governance, security requirements, and infrastructure service delivery practices.
• Broad knowledge of enterprise IT, including data center infrastructure, servers, virtualization, storage, and backup; LAN/WAN connectivity, wireless networks, firewalls, DNS, and load balancing; Cloud platforms and integration between cloud and on-premises environments; Directory services, identity and access management, and access controls; Monitoring, high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery; Application dependencies, systems integration, and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Conduct site surveys and technical assessments to document existing infrastructure, connectivity, equipment, capacity, and site readiness.
• Lead architecture discovery sessions with business stakeholders, technical teams, and service providers to understand requirements, constraints, and dependencies.
• Assess current technology environments, identify gaps and risks, and recommend improvements.
• Develop solution architectures spanning infrastructure, networking, cloud services, identity, security, applications, and systems integration.
• Produce architecture diagrams, technical specifications, design documentation, and implementation roadmaps.
• Align proposed solutions with applicable organizational standards, technology governance requirements, security policies, and operational needs.
• Evaluate technology options and vendor solutions for technical fit, interoperability, scalability, supportability, and cost.Define technical prerequisites, implementation dependencies, acceptance criteria, and operational readiness requirements.
• Provide technical oversight during implementation, coordinating with project managers, engineers, vendors, and support teams.
• Review implementation plans and proposed changes to identify architectural impacts and resolve technical issues.
• Support testing, deployment, migration, and cutover planning; validate that implemented solutions meet approved designs and requirements.
• Guide transition to operations through documentation, knowledge transfer, and support readiness reviews.
• Communicate technical recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and progress to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Documentation

Communication

Problem-solving

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology / computer science / engineering

Tools

TOGAF

ITIL

Job description

Global Enterprise Services, LLC is seeking an Enterprise Architect to support enterprise IT and infrastructure initiatives in Illinois, with Chicago-area focus. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to assess environments, design architectures, and oversee implementations.

The ideal candidate has broad IT expertise, hands-on architecture design experience, and familiarity with DoIT-style infrastructure.