Sr. Solution Architect - Enterprise Architectural Leader

BravoTECH; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BravoTECH is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architectural Leader to provide architectural leadership across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and enterprise modernization. This strategic role defines future‑state architecture, governance, and guides engineering teams in building secure, scalable platforms in Azure (with AWS involvement).

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in cloud/enterprise architecture, 3+ years in leadership, and a track record of shaping architecture

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud/enterprise architecture experience.
• 3+ years in technical leadership or people management.
• Experience establishing enterprise architecture standards and governance.
• Strong Azure enterprise-architecture design experience.
• Hands-on background to challenge designs and guide teams.
• Experience leading architecture reviews across complex environments.
• Understanding of cloud infra, networking, identity, security, containers.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, IaC, and automation practices.
• Experience influencing tech strategy across orgs.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise architecture strategy for cloud, infra, and platform engineering with Azure focus.
• Define target-state architecture, reference architectures, standards, and guardrails.
• Lead architecture reviews evaluating scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Establish cloud and platform engineering practices across engineering teams.
• Provide direction across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, containers, and automation.
• Guide DevSecOps strategy across CI/CD, IaC, secure software delivery, and platform automation.
• Establish observability, monitoring, resiliency, DR, and SRE practices.
• Mentor architects and engineers; build a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Partner with security, dev, and business leaders to align investments with priorities.
• Communicate strategy, decisions, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure

Platform Engineering

Enterprise Architecture

Technical Leadership

Executive Communication

Governance

Azure Expertise

Security & DevSecOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Harness

GitLab

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

New Relic

Job description

Enterprise Architectural Leader Shape Enterprise Cloud & Platform Strategy

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architectural Leader to provide architectural leadership across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and enterprise modernization. This is a strategic architecture and leadership role, not a day-to-day engineering position. You'll define the future-state architecture, establish standards and governance, lead design reviews, and guide engineering teams in implementing secure, scalable, and resilient platforms. The environment is primarily Microsoft Azure, with AWS also part of the enterprise landscape. The ideal candidate brings significant prior hands‑on cloud and infrastructure experience but has progressed into broader enterprise architecture ownership, technical strategy, and engineering leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise architecture strategy for cloud, infrastructure, and platform engineering, with a primary focus on Azure.
• Define target‑state architecture, reference architectures, technology standards, design principles, and architectural guardrails.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, evaluating proposed solutions for scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise strategy.
• Establish cloud and platform engineering practices that enable consistent technology decisions across engineering teams.
• Provide architectural direction across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, containers, platform services, automation, and developer enablement.
• Guide DevSecOps strategy and standards across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, secure software delivery, and platform automation.
• Establish architectural expectations for observability, monitoring, resiliency, disaster recovery, and SRE practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure architecture standards are translated into practical, executable solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and vendors and provide recommendations aligned with business and technology strategy.
• Lead, mentor, and develop architects and engineers while building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, application development, and business leadership to align architecture investments with organizational priorities.
• Communicate architecture strategy, technology decisions, trade‑offs, and risk to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience across cloud architecture, infrastructure, platform engineering, or enterprise technology architecture.
• 3+ years of technical leadership, architecture leadership, or people management experience.
• Proven experience owning or establishing enterprise architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and governance practices.
• Strong architectural expertise with Microsoft Azure, including experience designing enterprise‑scale cloud environments.
• Prior hands‑on engineering or architecture experience sufficient to effectively challenge designs, guide engineering teams, and make informed architectural decisions.
• Experience leading architecture and technical design reviews across complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, security, containers, and platform engineering.
• Architectural knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, secure SDLC, Infrastructure as Code, and automation practices.
• Experience establishing or governing enterprise architecture standards across engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience influencing technology strategy across infrastructure, engineering, security, and business organizations.
• Proven leadership experience developing technical talent and driving alignment across cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex architecture decisions, risks, and trade‑offs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Architecture experience across both Azure and AWS environments.
• Background with technologies such as Azure DevOps, Harness, GitLab, Terraform, Bicep/ARM, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Knowledge of enterprise observability platforms such as New Relic, Dynatrace, or Datadog.
• Experience establishing DevSecOps, SRE, SLIs/SLOs, or platform engineering practices.
• Experience with internal developer platforms, self‑service infrastructure, and developer enablement strategies.
• Knowledge of cloud cost management, FinOps, and optimization practices.
• Experience evaluating enterprise technology vendors and platforms.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or comparable cloud architecture certification.
• AWS, security, or Kubernetes certifications.

Technology Environment

The architecture organization supports a modern enterprise ecosystem that includes Microsoft Azure, AWS, Azure DevOps, Harness, GitLab, Terraform, Bicep/ARM, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, New Relic, Dynatrace, and Datadog. Direct hands‑on administration of each technology is not expected. The successful candidate should bring the architectural knowledge and prior technical experience necessary to establish standards, evaluate designs, guide engineering teams, and make strategic technology decisions across this environment.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to move beyond individual solution delivery and have broader influence over how enterprise cloud and platform technology is designed, governed, and evolved. You'll help establish the architecture practices and technical direction that guide engineering teams, influence modernization investments, and create a more consistent and scalable technology environment.