Senior Solutions Architect

Infoblox; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Paid time off

Flexible work options

Learning opportunities

Volunteer hours

Company match

Job summary

Infoblox is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to own overall architecture for a set of projects, translating strategy and requirements into coherent designs across enterprise apps, AI, data, cloud, and security. This role emphasizes governance, target-state alignment, and cross-functional collaboration, reporting to the Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture.

You will lead architecture across front-, middle-, and back-office functions, build end-to-end capability landscapes, maintain

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, consulting, or related technical fields.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and strategy of architecture across front-, middle-, and back-office functions for initiatives through design and delivery.
• Build an end-to-end capability-centric technology landscape across current and target states.
• Develop contextual and physical architecture views aligning with business and technical needs.
• Create capability-level roadmaps aligning with priorities and target-state outcomes.
• Maintain architecture standards and patterns across AI, integration, data, and infrastructure domains.
• Support governance through high-level reviews, conformance, and risk management.
• Identify opportunities for reuse, modularity, automation, and zero-touch experiences.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, security, and data teams for aligned outcomes.
• Communicate direction, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risks to stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrate executive functioning through roadmap management and disciplined follow-through.
• Maintain expertise in architecture patterns, integration approaches, and non-functional design.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Enterprise IT depth

Cloud architecture

AI architecture

Security & governance

Tools

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Oracle Finance & HR

Microsoft 365

Glean/AI-Clients

Databricks

Amazon Redshift

Job description

At Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold \"what if.\"What if your ideas could ignite global innovation?What if your curiosity could redefine the future?We invite you to step into the next exciting chapter of your career journey. Bring your creativity, drive, your daring spirit, and feel what it's like to thrive on a team big enough to make an impact, yet small enough to make a difference. Our cloud-first networking and security solutions already protect 70% of the Fortune 500 , and we're looking for creative thinkers ready to push that influence even further. Join us and discover how far your bold \"what if\" can take the world, your community, and your career.How we empower our people is extraordinary: we're recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and honored by Cigna as a Healthy Workforce honoree for three consecutive years; and what we build is world class: named CybersecAsia's Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 — clear evidence that when first-class technology meets empowered talent, remarkable careers take shape. So, what if the next big idea, and the next great career story, comes from you? Become the force that turns every \"what if\" into \"what's next.\" In a world where you can be anything, Be Infoblox.

Senior Solutions Architect

We have an opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Solutions Architecture team in the United States, reporting to the Senior Director - Enterprise Architect. The Senior Solutions Architect owns the overall architecture for a set of projects and business capabilities and translates strategy, requirements, and constraints into coherent solution designs that span enterprise applications, AI, data and integration, cloud, infrastructure, identity and security. This role ensures solutions are fit for purpose, aligned to target state, and governed from concept through delivery and conformance. The role requires strong technical depth across Enterprise IT platforms and architecture patterns, but it is not a primary software engineering role.

Be a Contributor — What You'll Do

• Lead the design and strategy of project, capability, platform, and solution architecture across front-office, middle-office, and/or back-office functions, supporting initiatives and projects from early planning through design and delivery
• Build an end-to-end capability-centric technology landscape to connect capability models, value-streams, processes, and domain architectures into a cohesive architecture stack in both current and various target state formulations
• Develop contextual, conceptual, component, and physical architecture views that place the solution in both business and technical context ensuring appropriate functional and non-functional requirement coverage as well as orienting the implementation scope and approach and account for strategy, risks, issues, and urgent constraints that affect delivery decisions
• Develop and maintain capability-level roadmaps that sequence platform, solution, and architectural evolution in alignment with business priorities, dependencies, and target-state outcomes
• Own and evolve the standards and patterns library across architecture domains (AI, integration, data, infrastructure) and non-functional control requirements (security, compliance, regulatory, etc.). Partner with the architecture community to develop these standards and patterns and maintain them over time
• Support architecture governance through high-level design reviews, design conformance, decision management, risk identification, and exception handling
• Identify opportunities for reuse, simplification, modularity, automation, and zero-touch experiences within and across capabilities, applications and technologies
• Build effective partnerships across business, product, engineering, platform, security, data, and delivery teams to drive aligned solution outcomes
• Communicate architectural direction, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risks clearly across executive, leadership, delivery, and technical stakeholders
• Demonstrate strong executive functioning through roadmap management, issue resolution, design coordination, and disciplined follow-through across initiatives
• Maintain strong technical expertise across architecture patterns, integration approaches, platform considerations, and non-functional design requirements

Be Prepared — What You Bring

• 10 or above years of experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, consulting, network engineering, cybersecurity, cloud architecture, or a related technical field
• Demonstrated technical depth across the Enterprise IT platform stack, with the ability to evaluate options, define architecture direction, guide delivery teams, and make pragmatic tradeoffs without serving as the primary software developer
• Enterprise platform architecture: Experience shaping architecture across ServiceNow, Salesforce, Oracle (Finance & HR), Microsoft 365, Glean/AI-Clients, and other SaaS business platforms, including platform lifecycle, rationalization, integration, governance, and target-state planning
• Integration and data architecture: Strong knowledge of application programming interfaces (APIs), iPaaS or enterprise service bus patterns, data movement, data quality, metadata, and governed data products across enterprise applications
• Cloud and data platforms: Practical architecture experience across AWS, and Microsoft Azure, plus enterprise data and analytics platforms such as Databricks and Amazon Redshift. Understands cloud foundations, storage, resiliency, scalability, and cost considerations
• Identity, security, and controls: Working knowledge of single sign-on and multifactor authentication, role/policy/attribute-based access control, entitlement-aware access, data classification, privacy, auditability, security architecture, and compliance requirements
• Observability and operations: Experience defining operational readiness and non-functional requirements for logging, metrics, application performance monitoring, availability, latency, usage, cost, risk, and service health across platforms and integrations
• Architecture methods and governance: Proficiency in current-state and target-state architecture, capability mapping, reference architectures, reusable patterns, technology roadmaps, vendor and platform evaluation, architecture review boards, design conformance, and exception management
• Enterprise AI architecture: Experience defining or implementing AI capabilities across approved foundation models, model routing or gateways, prompt management, evaluation, safety guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, and usage or cost management
• Grounded intelligence and agents: Experience with enterprise search, knowledge retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), permission-aware context, agent workflows, tool routing, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) or comparable governed tool‑integration patterns
• AI platform integration: Ability to connect AI experiences to enterprise platforms such as Glean, Microsoft 365 and Teams, Salesforce, Oracle, and ServiceNow while preserving identity, authorization, data boundaries, and auditability
• Applied delivery judgment: Track record moving AI concepts from discovery or proof of concept toward production‑ready architecture, with clear decisions, non-functional requirements, measurable outcomes, and adoption roadmaps

First 90 Days

Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors (Blox Buddies), and map the systems and meet with key stakeholders that rely on your work. Discuss and create short/long term goals.

Six Months

• Own and publish current-state capability and architecture views for your core domains, including key systems, integrations, and data flows
• Establish and socialize a target-state vision and prioritized roadmap for at least one major capability area, including early, low-risk AI and automation use cases
• Stand up or refine architecture governance routines (design reviews, decision records, standards updates) with clear engagement models
• Influence the design of 2-3 major initiatives to align with target architecture, security/compliance expectations, and non-functional standards
• Introduce or refine AI-powered tools for architecture documentation, options analysis, and impact assessments, demonstrating tangible productivity gains

One Year

• Drive a measurable shift toward a unified, capability-centric architecture within your domains, with increased reuse, reduced complexity, and stronger traceability from strategy to solutions
• Demonstrate realized business outcomes from your roadmap (e.g., simplified integrations, better data consistency, faster delivery, or cost efficiencies) with clear metrics
• Mature the enterprise architecture standards and patterns library, including AI, integration, data, and infrastructure patterns adopted by delivery teams
• Embed AI and analytics into at least one end-to-end value stream to improve decision quality, automation, or user experience under responsible AI guidelines
• Become a trusted strategic advisor to senior business and technology leaders on major investments, technology choices, and operating-model changes

Belong — Your Community

Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you'll grow and belong here.

Be Rewarded — Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong

• Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
• Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
• Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a \"No Jerks\" policy that keeps collaboration healthy
• Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
• Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
• We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect role location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position: USD $139,700 - $212,850 plus bonus

Ready to Be the Difference?

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