Strategic Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

Socket.dev; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Conduent is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Solutions Architect to design and govern scalable infrastructure and application architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments. You will partner with business units and IT teams to align architecture with strategic goals and budgets.

Your leadership will drive standards, assess emerging technologies, and deliver high‑impact roadmaps. The role requires 8+ years of IT experience, strong Azure expertise, and a proven ability to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT or technical services experience, including infrastructure architecture across cloud, hybrid, and private hosting environments.
• Strong experience with cloud services and platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent requests, projects, and responsibilities in a growth‑oriented environment.
• Proven ability to leverage vendor and consultant expertise to support IT project delivery and operations.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and judgment skills.
• Strong leadership and customer‑facing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with middleware technologies and databases.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure solution architecture for assigned projects, ensuring appropriate standards and processes are defined, established, and followed.
• Lead the development of future-state business area architectures using enterprise architecture frameworks to create competitive advantage, manage costs, and optimize design.
• Lead business area architecture gap analysis, including impact, ROI, time to benefit, strategic alignment, and roadmaps for expected changes.
• Facilitate long-term architecture planning to align business product roadmaps with the ETS roadmap.
• Partner with BU CIO teams to understand short- and long-term technical objectives, including product initiatives, sales pipeline activity, and other factors that may impact portfolio delivery.
• Ensure designed or reviewed solutions meet architectural requirements for scalability, maintainability, reliability, extensibility, usability, and security.

Skills

Cloud Azure

Infrastructure architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Middleware

Databases

Security

Compute platforms (Linux/Windows)

Networking

Storage & backup

Virtualization

Web technologies

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Conduent is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Solutions Architect to design and govern scalable infrastructure and application architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments. You will partner with business units and IT teams to align architecture with strategic goals and budgets.

Your leadership will drive standards, assess emerging technologies, and deliver high‑impact roadmaps. The role requires 8+ years of IT experience, strong Azure expertise, and a proven ability to