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Job Details
Job#: 2082832
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the design and oversight of enterprise-wide systems with a focus on scalability, performance, resiliency, and high availability. This role plays a key part in shaping the future architecture landscape to support business growth and operational excellence. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise and a strong track record in building and governing distributed, cloud-native, and fault-tolerant systems at scale.
You will work closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure architectural decisions meet non-functional requirements and support long-term sustainability of the enterprise technology ecosystem.
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Key Responsibilities:
Lead architecture reviews and technical governance across domains to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Collaborate across technology teams early in the lifecycle to embed non-functional requirements such as reliability, throughput, fault tolerance, and observability.
Architect for horizontal scalability, stateless design, and asynchronous processing where needed.
Recommend caching strategies, concurrency patterns, and distributed processing approaches.
Conduct deep technical assessments including code reviews, architecture validations, and performance testing.
Analyze logs, traces, and metrics from tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and others to identify and resolve system constraints.
Guide adoption of DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code to improve speed, safety, and repeatability of deployments.
Ensure consistent architectural practices are followed for failover, backup, recovery, and operational readiness.
Partner with security, infrastructure, and reliability teams to design end-to-end resilient solutions.
Create architectural artifacts, patterns, and decision records to support knowledge sharing and governance.
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Requirements:
8+ years of hands-on experience in IT systems architecture and implementation.
5+ years as an Enterprise or Solution Architect with direct accountability for system scale and uptime.
Extensive experience with public cloud (AWS preferred), including architecture for high-throughput and globally distributed systems.
Strong background in resiliency, availability, disaster recovery, and incident prevention strategies.
Familiarity with containerized environments (EKS, ECS, Kubernetes) and modern deployment patterns.
Experience optimizing compute, storage, and network performance for critical business services.
Proficient in identifying architectural improvements in legacy and modern systems.
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Core Competencies:
Strong leadership in defining future-state architectures with scalability and resilience in mind.
Deep understanding of observability practices including monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing.
Knowledge of performance engineering, system tuning, and root cause analysis.
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Preferred Qualifications:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or equivalent certification.
Experience modernizing enterprise systems to meet high availability and scalability requirements.
Strong grounding in financial services, insurance, or other regulated industries.
Experience with performance testing tools and concurrency modeling. Detail Labor Category:Contingent Worker Requisition Type:Contract - US
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the design and oversight of enterprise-wide systems with a focus on scalability, performance, resiliency, and high availability. This role plays a key part in shaping the future architecture landscape to support business growth and operational excellence. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise and a strong track record in building and governing distributed, cloud-native, and fault-tolerant systems at scale.
You will work closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure architectural decisions meet non-functional requirements and support long-term sustainability of the enterprise technology ecosystem.
?
Key Responsibilities:
Lead architecture reviews and technical governance across domains to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Collaborate across technology teams early in the lifecycle to embed non-functional requirements such as reliability, throughput, fault tolerance, and observability.
Architect for horizontal scalability, stateless design, and asynchronous processing where needed.
Recommend caching strategies, concurrency patterns, and distributed processing approaches.
Conduct deep technical assessments including code reviews, architecture validations, and performance testing.
Analyze logs, traces, and metrics from tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and others to identify and resolve system constraints.
Guide adoption of DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code to improve speed, safety, and repeatability of deployments.
Ensure consistent architectural practices are followed for failover, backup, recovery, and operational readiness.
Partner with security, infrastructure, and reliability teams to design end-to-end resilient solutions.
Create architectural artifacts, patterns, and decision records to support knowledge sharing and governance.
?
Requirements:
8+ years of hands-on experience in IT systems architecture and implementation.
5+ years as an Enterprise or Solution Architect with direct accountability for system scale and uptime.
Extensive experience with public cloud (AWS preferred), including architecture for high-throughput and globally distributed systems.
Strong background in resiliency, availability, disaster recovery, and incident prevention strategies.
Familiarity with containerized environments (EKS, ECS, Kubernetes) and modern deployment patterns.
Experience optimizing compute, storage, and network performance for critical business services.
Proficient in identifying architectural improvements in legacy and modern systems.
?
Core Competencies:
Strong leadership in defining future-state architectures with scalability and resilience in mind.
Deep understanding of observability practices including monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing.
Knowledge of performance engineering, system tuning, and root cause analysis.
?
Preferred Qualifications:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or equivalent certification.
Experience modernizing enterprise systems to meet high availability and scalability requirements.
Strong grounding in financial services, insurance, or other regulated industries.
Experience with performance testing tools and concurrency modeling. Detail Labor Category:Contingent Worker Requisition Type:Contract - US
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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