Architect

• Assess the current state of the client’s Active Directory and Azure/Entra ID deployment, including forest design, site design, domain design, security group topology, deployment architecture, organizational unit (“OU”) design, authentication, and group policy design.
• Run PowerShell queries against the client AD to determine relevant statistics of current AD and Azure objects, including users, accounts, groups, organizational units (OUs), computer objects, and related identity objects.
• Run SailPoint out-of-the-box reports against AD connectivity to provide group and account ownership and membership information.
• Review AD configurations, processes, and documentation to understand the client’s current deployment and operating model.
• Identify configuration and operational gaps in the client’s AD domains, infrastructure, architecture, and deployment.
• Prioritize identified gaps based on criticality and risk.
• Provide recommendations to address critical gaps and risks across AD and Entra ID environments.
• Discover and assess current processes for AD group management, AD group policy management, and AD account management.
• Suggest modifications and refinements to existing processes and create new processes if required.
• Determine the resources and skills necessary to complete remediation activities and achieve defined milestones.
• Provide an estimated budget to accomplish remediation as outlined during the assessment phases.
• Leverage client tools such as ADUC (Active Directory Users & Computers), ManageEngine, StealthAUDIT, or other AD scanning utilities as needed to accomplish data-gathering activities.

Active Directory Architect – Purview

• Define the architecture for a hyperscaler and LLM-agnostic product built to run on customer infrastructure - not a platform-locked implementation.
• Design the semantic data core: graph-based modeling with typed relationships, multi-tenant isolation, and provenance.
• Architect agentic services - tool-using LLM agents, orchestration, guardrails, and retrieval grounding - as first-class product capabilities.
• Set standards for async API design, state machines, code generation/templating, and draft-to-active data lifecycles.
• Lead technical delivery end-to-end, mentor engineers, and make the build-vs-buy and model-selection calls.

Principal Architect – CPQ Product

Active Directory Architect

• Develop architectural artifacts, models, patterns, and transition activities
• Collaborates with a team of architects to develop architectures in support of strategic initiatives
• Analyzes Business and IT environments to detect deficiencies and recommend solutions
• Recommends, reviews, documents, maintains and publishes functional technology standards
• Serves as an expert advisor to peers and leadership on technologies based on cost and value
• Develops relationships with business stakeholders and IT management
• Defines roadmaps and transition architectures
• Utilizes exceptional communication skills with all levels of employees and management
• Supports architecture governance and ensures alignment to business priorities

IT Architect

• Own the end-to-end architecture for hybrid identity spanning on-premises Active Directory, Entra ID, and Entra Connect / Cloud Sync.
• Design and document target-state identity reference architectures, including authentication flows, trust topologies, forest/domain design, and tenant strategy.
• Configure and optimize Entra ID capabilities: SSO/SAML/OIDC federation, application registrations & enterprise apps, App Proxy, B2B/B2C, dynamic groups, and Entra ID Governance (access reviews, entitlement management, lifecycle workflows).
• Automate identity operations using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API.
• Partner with SecOps on identity threat detection (Entra ID Protection, Defender for Identity) and incident response for identity-based attacks (Golden Ticket, password spray, token theft, etc.).
• Act as Tier 3 / final escalation for complex identity incidents and outages.
• Establish standards, best practices, and guardrails; review designs from junior engineers and vendor partners.
• Produce high-quality documentation: HLDs/LLDs, runbooks, knowledge articles, and architecture decision records.
• Mentor engineers and uplift the broader team's identity capability through knowledge transfer and design reviews.

Entra ID – AD Architect

• Develop a strong understanding of, and proficiency with, the Neara software platform in order to translate its functionality and value to customers.
• Work directly and closely with customers, including meaningful time on-site with customers to:
• Drive and embed use of the Neara platform by customers, including enabling the customer’s ability to proficiently use the platform to ensure customer ease of adoption and use throughout their organisation.
• Ensure that Neara solutions adopted by customers are being delivered as contractually scoped and delivering on identified business outcomes.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer strategic imperatives and business goals in order to provide clear guidance on where Neara solutions can enable or enhance.
• Serve as a trusted commercial and technical advisor to customers, ensuring Neara solutions are fully embedded within their business, including with respect to workflow or change management requirements that sit outside core Neara scope.
• Collaborate with customers to define and deliver business cases, and related ROI metrics, in support of the value delivered by Neara solutions, including established cadences around internal reporting and value delivery reviews.
• Identify opportunities for customers to expand their use and adoption of the Neara platform into other solutions through the identification of additional business drivers or pain points that Neara can help solve.
• Identify and actively engage a broad stakeholder audience within customers to ensure close and trusted relationships, built on credibility, authenticity and transparency.
• Collaborate closely with Neara Sales and Deployment teams to drive customer happiness, platform adoption, growth, and consistent and measurable adoption and value demonstration frameworks.
• Design and deliver focused training sessions and workshops aligned with customer goals and workflows
• Identify emerging client needs and strategic opportunities, and work closely with Neara Sales and Deployment teams to inform customer account strategies and growth opportunities.
• This position requires the ability to work on-site in Houston and/or Dallas during the week, with regular in-person collaboration alongside our customers.

Customer Value Architect

• Lead Digital Realty’s global network planning strategy, including long-range capacity planning, infrastructure prioritization, and investment alignment to support business growth, customer demand, and service objectives.
• Lead network capacity deployment planning to ensure infrastructure is delivered in the right markets, at the right time, and at the right scale to support customer demand, product requirements, and business growth.
• Drive new market planning and infrastructure readiness by partnering across product, sales, finance, and deployment teams to evaluate demand signals, define requirements, and prioritize expansion opportunities.
• Partner closely with product teams to align network planning, architecture, and deployment priorities with product roadmaps, service requirements, and customer experience goals.
• Establish and govern network architecture standards, design principles, and planning frameworks that enable scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure across global metro and data center environments.
• Drive repeatable planning and deployment models by translating architecture strategy into scalable designs, implementation patterns, and technical requirements for global network expansion.
• Own the roadmap for planning automation, data-driven workflows, and process standardization to reduce manual effort, improve quality, and increase speed and consistency across the organization.
• Drive the strategic use of AI tools to automate planning, analysis, and design workflows, improve decision quality, identify optimization opportunities, and scale engineering productivity through more intelligent and repeatable operating models.
• Partner across engineering, operations, infrastructure, and business teams to align network strategy with service requirements, financial targets, operational readiness, and customer commitments.
• Build and evolve governance, business processes, and performance measures for network planning and design, including topology standards, hardware lifecycle strategy, capacity targets, and risk management practices.

Director, Network Planning – Architecture

• Partner with Customer Care leaders to understand business priorities, operational goals, and performance challenges.
• Identify root causes of performance gaps through analysis, observations, call listening, and stakeholder engagement.
• Recommend and implement solutions that improve employee effectiveness and operational results.
• Collaborate with Learning Design and Delivery teams to develop and deploy performance solutions.
• Equip leaders with tools, insights, and strategies to strengthen coaching, accountability, and team performance.
• Utilize data, analytics, and operational metrics to identify trends, measure impact, and inform recommendations.
• Support change initiatives and reinforce adoption of new skills, behaviors, and processes.
• Share best practices and identify opportunities to drive continuous improvement across the organization.

Lead Performance Architect

• Be a trusted Agentforce subject-matter expert for the broader Success Architect organization, including how data foundations like Data360 support the success of AI agents
• Engage with our Signature and Strategic customers to evaluate and recommend optimization strategies for technical architecture, dev/ops, performance, and solution design specific to Agentforce
• Identify and evaluate capability gaps for standard product capability or identify creative Architect solutions through customization
• Facilitate and influence Executive stakeholders while aligning technology strategy to business value and ROI
• Run playbooks aligned with our Success Architect engagement catalog, tailored to the unique needs and opportunities of Agentforce customers
• Build strong relationships with both internal and external business partners, contributing to broader goals and growth
• Drive thought leadership through mentoring and knowledge sharing

Success Architect – Agentforce

• Manage and configure LSF Scheduler/Resource Manager and RTM monitoring to optimize ASIC development workloads
• Install, update, and support EDA tools from vendors such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor
• Develop and maintain automation scripts (Ansible, Bash, Python, Perl) for system deployments, updates, configuration management, and LSF environment operations
• Administer RHEL Linux systems at scale, including NFS server management, user account and LDAP administration, certificate management, patching, and system hardening
• Monitor and optimize system performance across network, storage, and compute resources
• Coordinate with architecture, networking, and infrastructure teams to design hardware solutions
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including operational runbooks, automated process guides, and change management records

Batch Processing System Architect

• Develops organization-wide architectures and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members to set an example of software systems design and development innovation and excellence.

Firmware Architect

• Develop, calibrate, and maintain timing-approximate and cycle-accurate models of memory devices, controllers, interconnects, processors, and SoC subsystems.
• Perform component- and system-level performance analysis, benchmarking, and characterization across AI, server, and mobile workloads.
• Select simulation tools and environments, generate or acquire representative workloads, and build performance monitoring for metrics such as latency, bandwidth, energy, and cycle-level statistics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external customers to optimize architectures and provide data-driven guidance on microarchitecture tradeoffs.
• Integrate and document models into larger SoC- and platform-level performance frameworks, identifying bottlenecks and recommending corrective actions.

System Architect

• Define and own enterprise IAM architecture for AWS
• Architect and standardize IAM personas for services, applications, and users
• Lead enterprise-wide rollout of IAM persona frameworks across multi-account environments
• Drive CloudFormation → Terraform conversion of IAM roles, policies, and permissions
• Establish IAM design standards using least-privilege, RBAC, and ABAC principles
• Architect integration between AWS IAM and IDC solutions, supporting identity lifecycle and governance
• Provide technical leadership, design guidance, and architectural reviews for IAM engineers

AWS IAM Architect

• Define an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services
• Define the target operating environment, design for client resiliency, assist with solution design, and define non-functional requirements
• Work with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives
• Evaluate the impact of strategic design decisions and contribute to the architecture roadmap
• Work across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions
• Prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap
• Create the architecture roadmap of defined domains in support of the product roadmap
• Clarify the architecture, support system design, and provide solution options to resolve architectural impediments
• Facilitate solution driven discussions and lead the design of complex architectures

Senior Architect

• Lead complex system engineering activities involving technical support, systems programming, and data center capabilities
• Manage multiple complex projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define architectural vision and solution
• Perform design and code reviews to meet non-functional requirements
• Educate team members on technology practices and best practices
• Support end-to-end infrastructure technology projects

• Lead the architecture strategy for the bank’s Core Banking Modernization program
• Act as an advisor to senior leadership to develop architectural framework
• Provide vision and expertise on implementing the transformation strategy
• Drive the definition, establishment, and selection of strategic tools
• Ensure applications adhere to established Wells Fargo standards
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and recommend innovations

Principal Architect – Payments and Pricing

• Responsible for securing high-quality paint schedules and specifications for premium paint products
• Develop and execute a strategic account plan to achieve goals within the architectural and design (A&D) segment
• Identify and prioritize key accounts across architectural and design firms
• Actively prospect and engage with architects, designers, and specifiers to promote the brand
• Qualify and manage provided leads to secure paint schedules and specifications
• Provide comprehensive education to architects and designers through presentations, courses, and meetings
• Monitor project opportunities across all stages, keeping detailed records of paint schedules, specifications, and timelines
• Conduct job site visits to assess project needs and ensure proper implementation
• Participate in industry events, trade shows, and networking opportunities to enhance brand visibility
• Cultivate a deep passion for industry trends and developments

Architectural and Design Representative

• Define and execute application modernization strategies for legacy platforms and user experiences.
• Design and promote API-first, microservices-first, and event-driven architectures.
• Provide architectural direction and mentorship to Team Leads and engineering squads.
• Evaluate existing systems to build migration strategies, risk assessments, and target architectures.
• Collaborate with clients and business leaders; confidently present proposals and negotiate technical approaches with challenging stakeholders.
• Establish and promote enterprise-wide architecture standards, best practices, and governance processes.
• Support integration initiatives involving legacy ESBs and modern integration platforms.

Principal Architect – Digital, CX Modernization

• Participates in defining functional design, development and systems architecture for Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform aligning to common department goals in line with CAT Digital Strategy.
• Assist teams that will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.
• Provide technical leadership for connected asset and Industrial IoT solutions spanning onboard systems, edge computing, connectivity platforms, cloud services, data platforms, analytics, and customer-facing applications.
• Responsible for the architecture, standards, and technology roadmap for the end-to-end connected ecosystem, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient solutions from device to glass.
• Define architectures for device connectivity, data exchange, edge-to-cloud integration, remote device management, telemetry-driven services, and digital product experiences.
• Collaborate across product, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business teams to enable fleet management, equipment health monitoring, predictive maintenance, AI-enabled user experiences, and future connected equipment capabilities.

Principal Digital Architect – IOT

• Collaborate closely with the presales team to understand project requirements and information gathered to date.
• Oversee execution and success of project lifecycle activities.
• Design, deliver, and lead client design workshops and facilitate discussion.
• Glean important requirements.
• Build consensus within client teams.
• Communicate in whatever means appropriate (written, email, presentation, etc.) to socialize ANM’s project strategy, designs, etc. to key client stakeholders.
• Build relationships with key client stakeholders to further project success.
• Design, deliver, and lead client knowledge transfer sessions.
• Acts as a project lead architect for cross-architecture transformative client projects.
• Delegates to the project engineering team.
• Oversees and mentors project engineers.
• Acts as a technical implementation lead for an assigned project and works closely with the project manager, project engineers, and customers to complete project tasks.
• Generates and implements system configurations, follows the project test plan and completes project documentation for the assigned infrastructure and cybersecurity projects.
• Ensures smooth transition of documentation to the Managed Services team as required.
• Performs analysis and diagnosis of infrastructure and cybersecurity problems.
• Provide third-level technical support for routing, switching, security, systems, and wireless technologies to ANM customers.
• Effectively utilizes moderate lab setups to demonstrate technology solutions, as well as recreate and solve problems.
• Uses knowledge of technology, products, and services to build enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions.
• Invests time in continued education to learn new technologies and keeps certifications current.
• Serve as a technology SME in areas of specialization for presales engagements.
• Help scope and close outcome-driven professional services projects.
• Develop and refine ANM frameworks, methodologies, and best practices for service delivery.
• Develop ANM Technology Labs (ATL) environment.
• Construct technology integrations and demonstrations Lab client scenarios where necessary.
• Lead technical enablement for clients and internal ANM resources.
• Technology solution evaluation and vetting.

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