Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design at UTSA

Lead IT Solution Architect

Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design at UTSA

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Antonio • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloud

About the role

  • Serve as the senior technical leader of the Architect Solution and Partnership (ASaP) Team.
  • Define resilient, scalable, and secure IT blueprints aligned with institutional and healthcare requirements.
  • Partner with IT domain experts to ensure all designs meet business, clinical, and operational needs.
  • Ensure designs support modernization, automation, and disaster recovery goals.
  • Lead the ASaP team, setting priorities, coaching members, and reporting outcomes aligned with institutional goals.
  • Drive enterprise architecture standards by chairing design reviews.
  • Translate business and clinical needs into clear architecture blueprints.
  • Provide technical governance and mentorship across infrastructure and operations.
  • Collaborate with IT leadership on modernization initiatives and technology roadmaps.

Requirements

  • Six (6) years of information technology and software/technical architecture experience is required.
  • Ten (10+) years in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or solution architecture, including 3–5 years in a leadership or architecture oversight role.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field is required.
  • Proven ability to design and deliver hybrid (on-prem, cloud, SaaS) environments with built-in resiliency and automation.
  • Strong understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability design.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and collaborating across IT domains, ideally in healthcare, research, or higher education.
  • Excellent ability to translate technical architecture into clear business context for non-technical audiences.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML-driven automation, observability, or analytics tools is preferred.
  • Understanding of cloud-native AI services (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) is preferred.
  • Certifications such as ITIL, TOGAF, or equivalent are a plus.
Benefits
  • Local applicants are preferred.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
technical architectureIT infrastructuresystems engineeringsolution architecturedisaster recoverybusiness continuityhigh-availability designhybrid environmentscloud computingautomation
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationmentorshipprioritizationtranslating technical conceptscross-functional team leadership
Certifications
ITILTOGAF