Strategic Enterprise Architect: Cloud, AI & Transformation

Kforce Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce Inc. in Houston, TX is seeking an Enterprise Architect who will drive solution design for transformation initiatives. You will engage IT and business teams to ensure architecture best practices across design, balancing technical and business risk.

You will collaborate with IT Leaders and product teams to blueprint solutions, lead architecture reviews, and guide state-to-future architectures while exploring new AI and cloud-based approaches to deliver business value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools (AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, microservices, analytical concepts, AI concepts, cloud technology, and services.
• Proven experience communicating technology in both execution detail and broad concepts to various audiences.
• Demonstrated capability partnering with customers to understand business and operating models to develop proposals for technical architecture or process solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with IT Leaders, Solution Delivery, Product teams, and Data teams to recommend technology solutions for business transformation and lead the technical solutioning process.
• Produce architectural blueprints consistent with IT vision and strategy.
• Leverage multiple technical domains in the solutioning process (Software Engineering, Security, Networking, Cloud infrastructure).
• Lead architecture reviews and align architecture strategies across the organization.
• Describe current state to future state architectures to executives, outlining value and business outcomes.
• Identify and experiment with new solutions to address organizational problems.
• Execute on initiatives beyond a passive advisory role.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Event-driven architectures

Microservices

AI concepts

Executive/Stakeholder communication

Business-IT alignment

Solution architecture

Customer collaboration

Tools

HOPEX

BizzDesign

LeanIX

AWS Lambda

S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Kforce Inc. in Houston, TX is seeking an Enterprise Architect who will drive solution design for transformation initiatives. You will engage IT and business teams to ensure architecture best practices across design, balancing technical and business risk.

You will collaborate with IT Leaders and product teams to blueprint solutions, lead architecture reviews, and guide state-to-future architectures while exploring new AI and cloud-based approaches to deliver business value.