Senior Enterprise Architect

Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect
Location: 2-3 days per week onsite in Houston, TX - Museum District / South Central Houston
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CDW is seeking a Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect (Azure and AWS) ready to grow with our organization and play a pivotal role in shaping our multi-cloud strategy, enterprise architecture standards, and technical direction. This senior-level position leads the design of secure, scalable, cost-optimized cloud solutions while guiding migrations, automation pipelines, and security compliance across the enterprise. As a key technical expert, you'll provide deep consultative insight, participate in technical "deep dive" evaluations, and help define how data and systems flow across our integrated delivery environment.
If you're a seasoned architect with a passion for designing the future of cloud at scale-we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and service catalogs
• Design secure, scalable, highly available solutions across multi-cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS, serverless, containers)
• Define and drive application migration strategies (re-hosting, re-platforming, modernization, cloud-native patterns)
• Partner with cybersecurity to enforce Zero Trust, encryption, identity governance, and compliance frameworks
• Implement cost governance via tagging, rightsizing, reserved instance planning, and continuous optimization
• Direct infrastructure-as-code adoption (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) and automation pipelines (DevOps/GitHub Actions)
• Ensure end-to-end observability, monitoring, and system reliability
• Collaborate with networking teams on private service connectivity, firewalls, DNS, routing, and bandwidth planning
• Participate in architectural design reviews, intake governance boards, and enterprise change management
• Evaluate emerging cloud services and recommend improvements to increase operational efficiency
• Mentor engineers and support knowledge transfer to elevate cloud maturity across the organization

Skills & Requirements

• Experience: 13 years in information systems architecture, design, or maintenance
• A bachelor's degree may substitute for four years of experience
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise cloud architecture and multi-cloud strategy
• Strong knowledge of automation, IaC, security frameworks, migration methodologies, and cloud operations

This is a rare opportunity to influence enterprise technology direction at scale, act as a senior subject matter expert, and architect the next generation of our clinical and business solutions. If you thrive in high-impact roles and excel at solving complex cloud challenges-this is the role for you.

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