System Architect

Diversity Nexus; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Diversity Nexus seeks an Enterprise Architect to lead the design, governance, and modernization of our technology landscape in a hybrid/multi-cloud environment. You will set technical standards, drive API-first architecture, and ensure secure, scalable integrations across Azure and beyond.

You will guide architecture decisions, draft ADRs, and present strategic roadmaps to senior leadership while mentoring engineers and collaborating with business stakeholders to align IT with business goals.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing enterprise integration architectures.
• Experience with API-first patterns, microservices and event-driven systems.
• Strong governance, security, and regulatory compliance capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic integration architecture aligned with IT strategy.
• Architect API management and hybrid/multi-cloud patterns.
• Define target-state architectures, roadmaps, and OpenAPI specs.
• Drive architecture governance via ARB and policy compliance.
• Translate business needs into technical specs and ADRs.
• Mentor engineers and architects; prepare executive summaries.

Skills

Azure Architecture

API Management

Microservices

Security & Governance

Leadership

Tools

Azure APIM

Service Bus

Event Grid

Event Hubs

Logic Apps

Functions

Entra ID

Key Vault

WAF

Front Door

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

OpenAPI

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

The Enterprise Architect provides strategic leadership in the design, documentation, and governance of the enterprise technology landscape. Bridging business strategy and technical execution, this role ensures architectural standards facilitate scalable, secure, and performant solutions. The candidate will drive technical authority for architecture and integration—modernizing and governing our enterprise API ecosystem using Azure Integration Services alongside multi-cloud architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Integration Architecture: Lead the design of enterprise integration architecture aligned with business goals and IT strategy. Architect API management, API-first patterns, microservices, and event-driven systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Define target-state architectures, integration blueprints, technology roadmaps, and OpenAPI specifications.Technical Governance & Compliance: Lead Architecture Review Boards (ARB) as technical authority for decisions and platform governance. Track design submissions and exceptions, ensuring compliance with security policies, regulatory frameworks, identity standards, and architectural best practices.

Collaboration & Leadership

Translate complex business requirements into high-level technical specifications.

Provide guidance and mentorship to software engineers and architects. Draft executive summaries, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), status reports, and senior leadership presentations.

Research & Innovation

Research emerging technologies (AI/ML, API standards, Event Streaming), summarizing findings into recommendation notes and PoCs to evaluate tools for legacy modernization.

Technical & Functional SkillsAzure & Cloud Stack

Hands-on Azure APIM, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Logic Apps, Functions, Entra ID, Key Vault, WAF, and Front Door.

Strong working knowledge of AWS cloud platforms.

Software & Data Engineering

Java and .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core) proficiency.

Data modeling across relational (Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases.

DevOps & Governance

CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and IaC (Terraform, Bicep, ARM). Enterprise modeling tools (Visio, Archi) and EA frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman).

Preferred Certifications Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) / Developer Associate (AZ-204)TOGAF 9 / Enterprise Architecture Practitioner