Senior Infrastructure Architect & Roadmap Leader

aep; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power (AEP) on-site in Texas is seeking a seasoned Infrastructure Architect to translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure architectures across Windows/Linux, storage, identity services, and automation.

You will lead architectural efforts, develop roadmaps, and mentor engineers, aligning with enterprise standards and modernization goals to drive reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.
• 8 years of relevant work experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver infrastructure solutions that address complex business and technology requirements while ensuring scalability, resiliency, security, and operational supportability.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to identify challenges, evaluate requirements, and develop strategic infrastructure solution options.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture on infrastructure standards, reference architectures, design patterns, technology roadmaps, and engineering best practices.
• Lead architecture and design efforts across infrastructure domains including Windows and Linux platforms, storage, databases, identity services (Active Directory and LDAP), automation, and enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Produce architectural deliverables, technical designs, roadmaps, and governance artifacts with minimal supervision.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and subject matter expert for infrastructure technology strategy, platform modernization, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to evaluate emerging technologies, modernization opportunities, and platform lifecycle management strategies.
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to engineers to strengthen infrastructure engineering capabilities and promote consistent design practices.
• Work closely with project teams, leadership, and operations teams to ensure successful delivery of infrastructure initiatives and alignment with enterprise architecture objectives.
• Participate in key project and operational decisions, ensuring trade-offs between risk, cost, supportability, security, and delivery timelines are thoughtfully evaluated.
• Assess the health, maturity, and future-state direction of infrastructure platforms and services, developing strategic roadmaps that improve reliability, efficiency, automation, and business enablement.
• Drive continuous improvement through infrastructure automation, standardization, and adoption of modern engineering practices to reduce operational complexity and increase service quality.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Leadership

Windows/Linux platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Active Directory

LDAP

Job description

American Electric Power (AEP) on-site in Texas is seeking a seasoned Infrastructure Architect to translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure architectures across Windows/Linux, storage, identity services, and automation.

You will lead architectural efforts, develop roadmaps, and mentor engineers, aligning with enterprise standards and modernization goals to drive reliability and efficiency.