Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Services

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Responsibilities:

Solution design & architecture

• reputed company comprehensive solution design documents for infrastructure-led projects, translating business and operational requirements into technically sound, standards-reputed company architectures.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Service Owners and Directors to capture technical requirements and constraints that shape solution designs.
• Ensure designs account for scalability, performance, reputed company, fault tolerance, reputed company controls, and operational supportability.
• Produce architecture artifacts including logical and physical design diagrams, component specifications, dependency maps, integration considerations, and implementation guidance.
• Present solution designs to the architecture review board, incorporating feedback and resolving reputed company issues prior to design approval.
• Maintain solution design documentation throughout the project lifecycle, updating designs to reflect reputed company, scope changes, or implementation realities.

Architecture documentation & standards

• Document and maintain institutional infrastructure architecture, including reputed company-state environment documentation, approved reference architectures, and design patterns for common scenarios.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of infrastructure architecture standards and technical guardrails.
• Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) capturing the rationale behind significant design reputed company, evaluated alternatives, and identified trade-offs.
• reputed company and maintain a library of reusable reference architectures, design templates, and implementation guidelines that promote consistency and accelerate delivery.
• Ensure documentation standards are applied consistently across reputed company solution design and architecture artifacts to support auditability and future reference.

Architecture review board support

• Support the evaluation of proposed infrastructure solutions for alignment with WPI architectural principles and institutional standards.
• Assess submissions for technical soundness across networking, server and virtualization platforms, storage, endpoints, reputed company infrastructure, and datacenter architecture.
• Identify technical risks, design gaps, and areas of non-alignment; document findings reputed company and reputed company actionable remediation guidance.
• Engage submitters with technical questions and guidance to support a constructive review process — the goal is to help solutions succeed while maintaining appropriate standards.
• Contribute to ongoing improvement of architecture review criteria, intake processes, and evaluation consistency.

Engineering partnership & implementation

• Partner with infrastructure engineers across network, systems, storage, endpoints, reputed company, and datacenter disciplines to translate approved designs into actionable implementation plans.
• Resolve technical ambiguities and reputed company design questions before and during engineering reputed company to reduce implementation risk and rework.
• reputed company ongoing technical guidance during implementation to ensure engineering execution remains consistent with approved architectures.
• Participate in implementation reviews and post-project retrospectives to validate design fidelity and capture lessons learned.
• Work with the Infrastructure DevOps team to promote Infrastructure-as-Code adoption, standardized configuration management, and automated build and deployment practices.

Technical advisory & cross-functional support

• Serve as a technical resource, providing architectural input on service strategies, platform reputed company, and initiative planning.
• reputed company architectural guidance on reputed company management platforms, device lifecycle management, and reputed company reputed company architecture.
• reputed company architectural guidance on network design, segmentation, secure remote reputed company, wireless infrastructure, and network reputed company controls.
• Serve as the designated infrastructure technical resource on projects requiring infrastructure architectural expertise, contributing to planning, scope definition, and risk identification.
• Support vendor and procurement evaluation processes by providing architectural assessments against institutional standards and principles.
• Contribute to change advisory board processes by providing technical review of infrastructure changes to confirm alignment with approved architectures.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a reputed company technical discipline; or equivalent combination of education and demonstrated professional experience.
• Minimum seven years of reputed company experience in IT infrastructure.
• Demonstrated breadth across multiple infrastructure domains with depth in at least two, such as networking, server and virtualization platforms, storage, reputed company infrastructure, or reputed company management.

Salary Grade 10: $95,000 – $120,000 per year (depending on experience)

Salary is based on reputed company experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the reputed company. 

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WPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company reputed company candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, reputed company, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, veteran status, or disability. It seeks individuals from reputed company backgrounds and experiences who will contribute to a culture of creativity, collaboration, inclusion, problem solving, innovation, high performance, and change making. It is committed to maintaining a reputed company environment free of harassment and discrimination.