Distinguished Architect - Asset and Infrastructure Transformation - Remote

Amtrak

11d•$179,300 - $232,416•Remote

About The Position

The Distinguished Architect - Asset and Infrastructure Transformation provides visionary, companywide architecture services to ensure technology portfolio investments align with corporate goals and support the organization’s evolution in a changing business environment. As a Digital Technology expert, the role uses communication, influence, guidance, and governance to maximize returns on technology investment, reduce time to capability, and minimize operational costs. The architect selects and develops technology capabilities to create business-relevant change. As part of the Digital Technology architecture team, this role communicates target-state architecture, roadmaps, and change progress to portfolio leaders and other stakeholders. It promotes understanding of architecture principles, advocates for strategic enterprise change, and provides technical leadership. The architect establishes architectural vision and reusable patterns; defines enterprise principles, standards, and guidance; governs architecture domains; and ensures technology reference architectures are safe, secure, stable, and compliant with industry standards. The role develops strategic roadmaps, guides investment decisions, solves complex cross-domain challenges, oversees architecture implementation, and helps identify and adopt technologies and patterns that support business transformation. It also mentors architects and Digital Technology teams and translates complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences. The position is remote optional, with travel requirements of up to 25%. Relocation is not offered. The listed salary range is $179,300 to $232,416, with pay depending on factors such as education, experience, and certifications. Additional incentive and pay programs may be available, including a short-term incentive bonus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data and intelligence, or a related field, with 13 or more years of relevant experience; alternatively, equivalent work experience including at least 5 years as a Principal or Senior Principal Architect in a large, complex enterprise.
Repeated success directing highly complex architecture initiatives exceeding $7 million, involving diverse stakeholders, multiple lines of business, varied solutions, regulated environments, or large-scale business transformations.
Advanced expertise in asset lifecycle management and engineering systems, including AI-driven predictive maintenance, condition-based monitoring, machine learning, digital twins, and real-time streaming analytics for asset health diagnostics and failure prediction.
Ability to architect scalable integrations across enterprise asset management platforms such as IBM Maximo, SAP EAM, and Infor EAM using event-driven microservices, data virtualization, and domain-driven design.
Strong experience developing secure IoT and edge architectures for remote telemetry, sensor fusion, and autonomous asset management.
Experience integrating GIS platforms such as Esri ArcGIS, Hexagon GeoMedia, and Bentley Map with enterprise asset repositories.
Demonstrated success delivering geospatially enabled asset intelligence, risk scoring, and field mobility solutions in regulated, distributed, and infrastructure-intensive environments, including transportation, utilities, plants, and facilities.
Contributions to the architecture profession or industry, such as publications, research, intellectual property, innovation, training development, or contributions to standards bodies or professional organizations; experience sharing knowledge to develop professional architects.
Experience creating significant business value for enterprises of $500 million or more by providing architectural vision and selecting platforms that support organizational progress and future initiatives.
Ability to manage multiple architecture engagements and plan and use collaborative cross-functional teams effectively.
Strong communication, interpersonal, relationship-building, and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers.
Ability to work effectively in an integrated team environment and demonstrate self-motivation.
Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance priorities across multiple stakeholders.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including leveraging data to inform decisions.
Technical and critical-thinking expertise to decompose complex processes and products into modular, modern architectures.
Proven ability to align resources, processes, and technology initiatives with business strategies across multiple lines of business or business units.
Strong understanding of architecture best practices and value methodology.
Knowledge of IT, OT, domain, and business architecture.
Experience with Agile processes for business value realization.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in business or a related field.
17 or more years of progressive technology and architecture experience, including at least 12 years as a Principal or Senior Principal Architect in a large, complex enterprise.
Travel and transportation experience or relevant technology-domain experience.
Experience with governance, risk, regulatory, and compliance matters.
Skills and knowledge spanning multiple architecture domains, such as Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture, and Information/Data Architecture.

Responsibilities

Set the architectural vision for core capabilities and align patterns to promote consistency and reuse.
Define enterprise principles, patterns, and guidance for technology data capabilities, platforms, infrastructure, and application development, deployment, and maintenance.
Provide oversight and governance for current, interim, and potential future states of key architecture domains, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
Ensure technology reference architectures, standards, and guidelines support safety, security, stability, and compliance with industry standards.
Drive adoption and reuse of preferred resources, processes, and technologies across portfolios and functions.
Mentor architects and Digital Technology teams, providing guidance and fostering a culture of excellence.
Communicate effectively with senior leadership and stakeholders throughout the company.
Create strategic roadmaps and plans for evolving Digital Technology architecture, supporting business strategy, and prioritizing initiatives by expected business value and strategic importance.
Guide investment decisions by aligning technology plans and investments with business vision and strategy.
Develop architecture patterns and strategies that support competitive differentiation and business transformation.
Solve complex and ambiguous architectural challenges spanning domains, systems, and business units, and provide definitive technical direction.
Design, govern, and oversee implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient solutions for cross-domain business problems.
Translate complex technical concepts for technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
Act as a liaison between engineering and business teams to maintain alignment and understanding.
Help identify, evaluate, and adopt emerging technologies and architectural patterns.
Work with Solution Architects and engineering leads to translate requirements into technical designs for complex solutions.
Help ensure products in major enterprise initiatives and complex systems of systems are scalable, secure, performant, and maintainable.
Provide expert technical guidance and contribute to the evolution of architectural standards.
Plan and manage multiple architecture engagements, using collaborative cross-functional teams to achieve architecture objectives and key results.
Contribute to the architecture profession and support the development of professional architects through knowledge sharing.