Architect - Technology

The Architect is accountable for the architectural integrity and evolution of complex systems and their interactions across the enterprise. The role engages early in business and technology planning to shape technical direction, establish system boundaries, evaluate feasibility and alternatives, define nonfunctional requirements, resolve architectural trade-offs, and connect technology decisions to business outcomes, risk, and lifecycle health. The Architect defines logical architecture, solution intent, cross-system interactions, infrastructure requirements and constraints, architectural guardrails, transition direction, and risk treatments. The role owns designated architectural decisions through commitment and maintains the models, evidence, rationale, and traceability needed to make those decisions understandable, reusable, and defensible. The Architect works across business, product, engineering, platform, infrastructure, network, data, security, operations, compliance, and enterprise architecture while maintaining clear accountability boundaries with Platform Engineering and delivery teams. The Architect is responsible for the safe and effective architectural use of artificial intelligence, including AI-enabled products, models, retrieval solutions, and agents. The role establishes intended use, data and autonomy boundaries, human-accountability requirements, evaluation expectations, evidence standards, monitoring, and lifecycle controls proportionate to consequence and risk. What you will do:  Architecture and Solution Intent: Define and evolve logical architecture and solution intent for one or more systems and their interactions.  Infrastructure Architecture and Platform Alignment: Define the infrastructure capabilities, constraints, nonfunctional requirements, and risk treatments required to support solution intent across cloud, on-premises, network, compute, storage, runtime, identity, observability, resilience, backup, recovery, and continuity concerns.  Upstream Shaping and Feasibility: Engage in discovery, intake, portfolio, and product planning before investment decisions are committed.  Architectural Decisions: Lead designated architectural decisions from framing through commitment. Make trade-offs explicit; identify decision owners and affected stakeholders; and document what was decided, why, where the decision applies, and the conditions that would cause reconsideration.  AI and Agent Architecture: Determine when AI is appropriate and select architecture patterns consistent with intended use and risk.  Standards, Guardrails, and Reuse: Apply and evolve enterprise principles, standards, reference architectures, approved patterns, and regulatory obligations. Lifecycle, Risk, and Technical Debt: Steward architectural integrity across introduction, change, operation, modernization, and retirement. Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with product management, business owners, engineering, data, security, infrastructure, network, platform, operations, compliance, and other architects.  Evidence and Continuous Improvement: Maintain architecture models, decision records, risks, assumptions, standards, and conformance evidence in governed systems of record.