Strategic Architect: Service Delivery & AI Operations

GCI Communication Corp; Anchorage (AK); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GCI Communication Corp seeks a Principal Architect to define and advance architecture direction across products, platforms, and services, aligning with business outcomes and modernization goals.

The role partners with product, engineering, and operations to translate needs into sustainable roadmaps and guidelines, reducing risk, improving agility, and optimizing technology investments.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, including at least two architecture/technology disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Assess objectives, customer needs, priorities, capabilities, risks, dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
• Develop target-state architectures, transition states, and roadmaps for investment and implementation planning.
• Create architecture artifacts, standards, patterns, reference designs, and design guardrails; evaluate alternatives and recommend fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews and governance forums, applying standards and best practices.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Governance practices

Cloud/ security/ data

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

GCI Communication Corp seeks a Principal Architect to define and advance architecture direction across products, platforms, and services, aligning with business outcomes and modernization goals.

The role partners with product, engineering, and operations to translate needs into sustainable roadmaps and guidelines, reducing risk, improving agility, and optimizing technology investments.