Senior Enterprise Architect
Houston, TX, US • Posted 60+ days ago • Updated 1 hour ago
CDW Amplified Services
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Skills
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services
- Pivotal
- Enterprise Architecture
- Technical Direction
- IaaS
- PaaS
- Hosting
- Cyber Security
- Encryption
- Regulatory Compliance
- Optimization
- Management
- Terraform
- DevOps
- GitHub
- Reliability Engineering
- Collaboration
- Computer Networking
- Firewall
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- DNS
- Routing
- Architectural Design
- Change Management
- Operational Efficiency
- Mentorship
- Knowledge Transfer
- Information Systems
- Cloud Architecture
- Migration
- Microsoft Excel
- Cloud Computing
- DICE
Summary
Location: 2-3 days per week onsite in Houston, TX - Museum District / South Central Houston
Contract to Hire
W2 opportunity as a CDW Contract Coworker
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
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- Dice Id: infogrup
- Position Id: 21649
- Posted 30+ days ago
Company Info
At CDW Amplified Services, we use our deep technical insights, local market knowledge, and rock-solid relationships and reputation to create exceptional business outcomes for people and companies every day. We are locally based, with global partnerships to deliver the industry's top technical solutions and talent to every one of our clients. Our clients, contractors, partners, and employees choose CDW Amplified Services because we tackle the tough problems, and we care about people while we do it. Our clients range from large global businesses to medium-sized firms that use technology as a competitive advantage and are seeking the best people and processes to execute their vision. The reason we win is that our people are relentlessly committed to our client's vision and business success. The reason that our people are so relentless is that we are equally fanatical about their talent, their success, and their well-being.
If you would like to learn more, join our team or explore how CDW Amplified Services can benefit your business, please reach out today!!
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