Overview As an IT Architect, you will assess and advance infrastructure technologies that align with business goals. You'll partner with business and IT teams to evaluate opportunities, run proofs of concept, and craft practical recommendations balancing value, risk, and operations. You will influence infrastructure direction across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments while supporting both near-term initiatives and long-term planning. This is an in-office role in Wichita, Tulsa, Houston, or Scottsdale.
Compensation / Benefits- medical, dental, vision
- flexible spending and health savings accounts
- life insurance
- disability
- retirement
- paid vacation/time off
Responsibilities- Partner with business and IT stakeholders to translate challenges into infrastructure recommendations
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, security, scalability, and efficiency
- Evaluate emerging technologies across cloud, networking, security, automation, endpoint, and platform domains
- Conduct research, proofs of concept, and technology assessments to inform decisions
- Assess tradeoffs and develop recommendations based on requirements, risk, and cost
- Contribute to infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps
- Collaborate across teams to support solution design in on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments
- Develop architecture diagrams and documentation to align teams
Key requirements- Experience in IT architecture or related technical roles involving solution design and implementation
- Experience across multiple infrastructure domains (cloud, compute, storage, networking, endpoint management, security)
- Experience researching, evaluating, testing, or implementing emerging technologies
- Experience designing or supporting cloud solutions in AWS or Azure
- Experience communicating technical recommendations to technical and business stakeholders
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Influencing without direct authority
- Effective communication
- Cloud architectures (AWS, Azure)
- Infrastructure design and modernization
- On-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments
