Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

Company Description

Ent Credit Union exists to improve the financial quality of life of the people we serve. This mission drives us every day, but we are more than our mission. We're also individuals using our unique abilities to make our organization, and the communities we serve, better than they were yesterday. We're a not-for-profit that puts people above profits and actively invests in our community. Our rapidly growing team is expanding our reach to serve more people throughout Colorado. To spread our mission far and wide, we need people like you. If you're interested in a paycheck with a purpose, apply with us today. Our people make the difference, and we truly believe you are our greatest asset.

Job Description

The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions that support the organization's strategic objectives. This role involves assessing current infrastructure, recommending improvements, and ensuring alignment with industry best practices. By collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, the Enterprise Infrastructure Architect plays a critical role in enabling seamless operations, enhancing system performance, and facilitating digital transformation initiatives, shaping and managing the infrastructure landscape of the organization. This role requires both deep technical skills and the ability to work strategically, focusing on designing, optimizing, and securing the infrastructure to meet current and future business needs.

Essential Functions

• Infrastructure Strategy and Roadmap Development: Create and maintain an infrastructure strategy and roadmap that aligns with organizational goals and technology trends. Define cloud migration strategies, balancing long-term strategic objectives with short-term operational needs and budget constraints, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring understanding and alignment. Collaborate on forecast and plan for future infrastructure investments to support organizational growth.
• Infrastructure Architecture Design: Develop and maintain the overall infrastructure architecture framework, including hardware, software, networking, and cloud components. Design scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions that support business goals and IT strategies. Define standards for infrastructure components and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, appropriate benchmarks levels of performance, availability and security. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure optimum designs for on-prem and cloud-based data center architecture, scalable, reliable, cost effective, and aligned with disaster recovery needs.
• Vendor and Technology Evaluation: Collaborate with infrastructure teams to evaluate and select technology vendors, platforms, and tools that align with infrastructure and business needs. Manage relationships with hardware, software, and cloud providers, ensuring service levels meet organizational requirements. Stay informed about emerging technologies and trends, recommending adoption when appropriate.
• Governance, Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Collaborate to establish and enforce governance frameworks for infrastructure design, implementation, and management. Collaborate to define, maintain and enforce comprehensive documentation of the infrastructure architecture, including diagrams, standards, best practices, and procedures. Create knowledge-sharing mechanisms to ensure teams have access to infrastructure architecture expertise and resources.
• Bank Secrecy Act: Remains cognizant of and adheres to Ent policies and procedures, and regulations pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act.

Qualifications

Minimum Formal Qualifications for this Position

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a similar field of study (preferred).
• 5 years' experience in leading large scale infrastructure initiatives including in infrastructure design and implementation, demonstrating expertise in cloud services, network architecture, and system security to align technology infrastructure with business needs.
• 10 years' experience infrastructure engineering (preferred).

Each year of relevant work experience may be exchanged for a year in a relevant degree program or vice versa. For example, a requirement of a bachelor's degree in accounting and 2 years of account experience could be substituted for a high school diploma and 6 years of relevant accounting work experience or a master's degree in accounting and 0 years of work experience.


Technical or Specialized Knowledge/Skills:

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and working with senior leadership to define IT roadmaps and strategies.
• Capability to influence decision-makers and drive change management in large organizations.
• Experience presenting technical strategies and recommendations to executive leadership and board members.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and infrastructure design principles.
• Knowledge of networking technologies, including LAN, WAN, and cloud networking.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their architectural best practices.
• Awareness of virtualization technologies and tools (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V) and their applications.
• Knowledge of system security best practices, compliance regulations, and disaster recovery planning.
• Proficient in infrastructure management and monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, SolarWinds).
• Analytical and problem-solving skills for diagnosing infrastructure-related issues.
• Communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Ability to develop and maintain infrastructure documentation, including diagrams and specifications.
• Project management skills, including the ability to coordinate multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate and recommend new technologies that enhance infrastructure performance and reliability.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Capacity to mentor and guide junior team members in infrastructure best practices and methodologies.
• Adaptability to evolving technologies and willingness to stay current with industry trends.
• Ability to think strategically and align infrastructure solutions with overall business objectives.
• Competence in risk assessment and management related to infrastructure decisions and implementations.

Certifications Required:

• None

Environmental, Physical and Psychological Requirements

• Standing - Occasionally
• Walking - Occasionally
• Sitting - Frequently
• Lifting - Rarely (40 Lbs)
• Carrying - Rarely
• Pushing - Rarely
• Pulling - Rarely
• Balancing - Rarely
• Stooping - Rarely
• Kneeling - Rarely
• Crouching - Rarely
• Crawling - Rarely
• Reaching - Occasionally
• Handling - Occasionally
• Grasping - Occasionally
• Feeling - Occasionally
• Talking - Frequently
• Hearing - Frequently
• Repetitive Motions - Frequently
• Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination - Occasionally
• Noises louder than normal speaking volume - Occasionally
• Temperature Changes - Rarely
• Atmospheric Conditions - Rarely

Additional Information

The pay range for this position is: $127,670 to $167,556 per Year (CSF)

Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, certifications, and internal pay equity.

We anticipate this position to close on 2/7/2025. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to be considered.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Benefits Summary Sheet

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)