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Technical Services - Infrastructure Architect

WoodmenLife · Omaha, NE, United States
Omaha, NE, United StatesExp: 10+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits package.
Location
Omaha, NE, United States
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Will not sponsor applicants for work visas; applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Job summary

Provides architectural leadership and technical direction for enterprise infrastructure strategy, platforms, and modernization across on-premises and hybrid environments. Develops architecture patterns, standards, and roadmaps, and serves as System Architect for the Infrastructure, Operations & Security Agile Release Train, guiding PI Planning, architectural runway development, and cross-team coordination. The role addresses infrastructure spanning networking, compute, storage, virtualization, identity and access management, automation, observability, and cloud.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits packageStrong work-life balanceFriday afternoons off year-round

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive information technology experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, systems architecture, cloud architecture, or a related technical leadership role.
  • Experience designing enterprise infrastructure across networking, compute, storage, virtualization, identity and access management, automation, observability, and hybrid cloud.
  • Experience developing infrastructure strategies, roadmaps, modernization initiatives, and lifecycle plans.
  • Experience providing Agile Release Train architecture leadership, including PI Planning, runway development, enabler definition, and cross-team dependency management.
  • Experience with architecture governance, technical design reviews, infrastructure planning, and significant technology decisions.
  • Strong understanding of resiliency, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity management, monitoring, performance, and operational readiness.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure security, identity and access management, regulatory requirements, and Zero Trust principles.
  • Working knowledge of IT service management, production operations, incident and problem management, and operational support.
  • Ability to evaluate technology alternatives by technical fit, risk, security, supportability, operational impact, cost, and sustainability.
  • Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and consensus-building skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve secure, resilient, scalable, highly available infrastructure architectures across on-premises and hybrid environments.
  • Develop infrastructure patterns, reference architectures, technical guidance, standards, and roadmaps.
  • Guide infrastructure strategy, lifecycle planning, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
  • Serve as System Architect for the Infrastructure, Operations & Security Agile Release Train.
  • Define and maintain the architectural runway and enablers for planned infrastructure capabilities.
  • Coordinate architecture decisions, technical dependencies, risks, constraints, and nonfunctional requirements across teams.
  • Provide architectural guidance through solution design, implementation, validation, deployment, and transition to operations.
  • Advise on infrastructure technology direction, investments, risks, and modernization.
  • Mentor technical teams on architecture principles, approved patterns, and modern infrastructure practices.

Skills

AzureBicepIAMPowerShellServiceNowTerraform

Certifications

SAFe ArchitectSAFe AgilistMicrosoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Degrees

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a re

Work schedule

Friday afternoons off year-round

Industry

InsuranceFinancial servicesRegulated industries

Relocation

No