Strategic Enterprise Architect - Cloud & AI Leader (Hybrid)

Blue Acorn iCi; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Acorn iCi is seeking an Enterprise Architect to provide end-to-end architectural leadership across application, data, integration, and infrastructure layers. This role translates business requirements into scalable architecture solutions while establishing patterns, standards, and guardrails that support secure, resilient, production-ready applications.

The Enterprise Architect will work across the full technical stack and partner directly with business, customer, technical, and leadership

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Enterprise or Solution Architecture.
• Experience taking web applications live end-to-end following internal guidelines.
• Strong Data Architecture exposure including data modeling, warehousing, processing.
• Experience defining architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails across layers.
• Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) with scalable, secure architectures.
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.
• AI exposure: architecting or advising on AI/ML/LLM solutions.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, privacy, and access control principles.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable architecture across stack.
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
• Willingness to work closely with business/customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails across layers.
• Provide architectural leadership across the full tech stack.
• Translate business requirements into scalable architecture solutions.
• Take ownership of architectural outcomes with stakeholders.
• Lead end-to-end architecture to take web apps live with guidelines and best practices.
• Design cloud architectures for AWS, Azure, or GCP with security and resilience.
• Guide integrations, APIs, and microservices/event-driven architectures.
• Support deployment lifecycle: CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, IaC.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Cloud platforms

Data architecture

APIs & microservices

CI/CD

Docker & Kubernetes

IAAS & security

AI/ML architecture

Stakeholder communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Blue Acorn iCi is seeking an Enterprise Architect to provide end-to-end architectural leadership across application, data, integration, and infrastructure layers. This role translates business requirements into scalable architecture solutions while establishing patterns, standards, and guardrails that support secure, resilient, production-ready applications.

The Enterprise Architect will work across the full technical stack and partner directly with business, customer, technical, and leadership