Enterprise Architect

NFF Inc•,

9d•$120,000 - $145,000

About The Position

NFF is seeking an experienced infrastructure architect to support enterprise-wide infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery initiatives. The role works closely with the Chief Enterprise Architect and cross-functional technical teams to assess existing infrastructure, define future-state architecture, and strengthen the County’s technology resilience, security, and operational capabilities. The primary cloud focus is Microsoft Azure, with AWS as a secondary area of experience. The position serves as the primary architectural liaison for major facility move-outs, data center transitions, and large-scale workload migrations. It leads technical assessments and develops actionable architecture strategies, implementation roadmaps, and recommendations. The architect also communicates technical risks and recommendations to technical teams, agency stakeholders, and senior leadership. The role spans infrastructure capacity and storage, hardware and software lifecycle planning, archive and retention initiatives, endpoint management, communications systems, cloud governance, and Infrastructure-as-Code standards. It also prepares materials for Architecture Review Board discussions and facilitates discovery workshops to align modernization plans with business requirements and enterprise technology strategy.

Requirements

Significant experience in enterprise architecture, infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, or a related technical architecture role.
Experience planning and supporting large-scale infrastructure transitions, data center relocations, facility move-outs, or enterprise workload migrations.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture, capacity planning, scalability, and hybrid-cloud environments.
Experience with cloud governance, including landing zones, account or subscription structures, and enterprise cloud standards.
Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code concepts, automation standards, and reusable infrastructure deployment patterns.
Experience evaluating enterprise storage platforms, identifying capability gaps, and developing hardware and software lifecycle strategies.
Experience with data archiving, retention, storage optimization, or related proof-of-concept initiatives.
Understanding of endpoint management, device security baselines, and modern workplace provisioning across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Experience coordinating architecture requirements across infrastructure, databases, desktop engineering, security, and networking.
Ability to assess complex technical environments, facilitate stakeholder workshops, and translate requirements into architecture recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills, including the ability to present technical options and recommendations to architecture review boards, agency stakeholders, and senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure cloud architecture and governance; AWS experience is beneficial.
Experience with enterprise messaging platforms, contact center solutions, unified communications, paging, and alerting systems.
Experience with cloud migration, data center consolidation, infrastructure modernization, and legacy platform retirement.
Experience preparing architecture documentation, technical assessments, and decision materials for an Architecture Review Board.
Experience implementing enterprise endpoint management and modern workplace solutions.
Experience in large, complex enterprise or public-sector IT environments.
Relevant certifications in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, or cloud governance.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary architectural liaison for facility move-outs, data center transitions, and large-scale workload migrations.
Assess infrastructure capacity gaps and develop strategies to transition enterprise platforms to scalable cloud infrastructure.
Partner with infrastructure and database teams to evaluate enterprise storage capabilities and recommend improvements to capacity, performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
Oversee hardware and software lifecycle strategies, including technology refresh planning, legacy platform retirement, and infrastructure modernization.
Lead archive and data retention proof-of-concepts to reduce storage costs, mitigate risk, and improve data lifecycle management.
Collaborate with desktop engineering teams to define endpoint management capabilities, device and workspace security baselines, and provisioning strategies across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Align cross-functional requirements for messaging platform upgrades, contact center capabilities, and unified paging and alerting architectures.
Establish and evolve enterprise cloud governance models, including landing zones, account and subscription structures, and standards for secure, scalable cloud adoption.
Define and promote Infrastructure-as-Code standards, reusable patterns, and governance practices to improve consistency, automation, and operational efficiency.
Prepare architecture options, technical assessments, and supporting materials for Architecture Review Board discussions and enterprise technology decisions.
Facilitate discovery workshops with agencies and technical teams to identify business requirements, technical constraints, dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
Translate discovery findings into architecture recommendations, implementation roadmaps, and actionable plans aligned with enterprise technology strategy.
Collaborate across infrastructure, cloud, database, desktop engineering, security, networking, and application teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
Communicate architecture decisions, risks, and recommendations to technical teams, agency stakeholders, and senior leadership.