Sr Director Digital Foundations Architecture - 90416778 - Remote

Amtrak

9d•$206,200 - $267,192•Remote

About The Position

The Sr. Director, Digital Foundations Architecture provides enterprise architecture leadership for the foundational technology capabilities that support Amtrak’s digital services. The role aligns infrastructure strategy and investment with corporate goals while advancing a resilient, automated, observable, secure, and supportable technology foundation. Through architecture governance, technical leadership, engineering enablement, and decision guidance, this senior Digital Technology leader accelerates delivery, maximizes return on technology investment, and reduces operational cost and risk. The Sr. Director defines and communicates current, transitional, and target-state architectures and roadmaps for advanced networking and connectivity, cloud infrastructure and IaaS, compute, infrastructure-as-code and automation, observability and resilience, service delivery, and technology operations. The role establishes reusable patterns and reference architectures and partners with Platform, Cybersecurity, Data, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate enterprise strategy into capabilities. As an Enterprise Architect and people leader, the Sr. Director develops architecture talent, strengthens technical depth, and connects strategic direction to practical engineering and operational outcomes. The position calls for enterprise architecture leadership and hands-on experience designing and operating large, complex infrastructure environments where reliability, operational readiness, automation, lifecycle management, and customer service are central. The role provides direction and development for leaders and teams, and senior leadership steering for architecture objectives, strategic roadmaps, investment decisions, and scalable architectural solutions. The position is remote optional, with travel requirements of up to 25%. Relocation is not offered.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data and intelligence, or a related field, and 15+ years of relevant architecture or technology experience, or equivalent work experience.
Experience creating significant business value for enterprises of $1 billion or more as an architect, providing vision and selecting platforms that move organizations forward and scale for future initiatives.
11+ years of relevant technical and business managerial experience, including 2 to 3 years leading an Architecture Practice area.
Leadership experience managing architecture teams and influencing executive-level management and key stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple architecture engagements and effectively plan and use staff to ensure the architecture view.
Previous experience shaping enterprise architecture vision and leading an organization-wide transformation and culture shift toward that vision.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work in an integrated team environment and self-motivation.
Mastery of business acumen.
Relationship-building and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers.
Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance priorities across multiple stakeholders.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience leveraging data to inform decision-making.
15+ years of relevant industry experience.
11+ years in managing talent and experience managing teams.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture best practices, value methodology, reference architectures, reusable patterns, standards, and roadmaps.
Deep knowledge of how networking, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, compute, data center and edge services, automation, observability, resilience, recovery, service delivery, and technology operations interact as an enterprise foundation.
Working knowledge of cybersecurity architecture and controls sufficient to embed security requirements into infrastructure designs and partner effectively with the Security domain.
Ability to move between strategic target-state discussions, detailed technical tradeoffs, delivery sequencing, and operational readiness concerns.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent applied experience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in business engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field, particularly where the program emphasizes enterprise technology strategy, organizational leadership, or complex systems.
Critical infrastructure experience or experience supporting large, distributed, mission-critical enterprises.
Experience applying enterprise networking, AWS and/or Azure infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, observability, service management, and reliability practices in large-scale, hybrid, and 24x7 operational environments.
Experience with governance, risk, regulatory, and compliance.
Experience spanning multiple architecture domains, including business, application/solution, technical/infrastructure, platform, security, and information/data architecture.
Experience with modern engineering and delivery practices such as Git-based workflows, CI/CD, reusable infrastructure modules, automated testing and policy controls, and configuration management.

Responsibilities

Own and communicate the architectural vision for core enterprise infrastructure capabilities, establishing patterns and reference architectures that improve consistency, reuse, resilience, and operational supportability.
Define and govern current, transitional, and target-state architecture across advanced networking and connectivity, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, IaaS, compute, data center and edge infrastructure, infrastructure automation, observability, resilience, service delivery, and technology operations.
Govern enterprise principles, patterns, standards, and guidance for how infrastructure is designed, provisioned, connected, deployed, monitored, operated, maintained, recovered, and retired.
Define and govern the infrastructure architecture interface with the Security domain, translating partner-domain requirements into infrastructure patterns and designs and validating implementation of required controls.
Drive infrastructure-as-code and automation as default delivery mechanisms where practical, including reusable modules, automated provisioning, configuration management, policy enforcement, testing, and continuous delivery practices.
Establish architecture expectations for observability, telemetry, capacity, performance, high availability, disaster recovery, lifecycle management, and operational readiness.
Ensure technology reference architectures, standards, and guidelines are safe, secure, stable, and compliant with industry standards.
Champion organizational design, enterprise strategy, and innovation leadership for the architecture practice.
Lead and mentor a team of architects, providing guidance and fostering a culture of excellence.
Create and provide senior leadership steering for strategic roadmaps and transition plans that explain how foundational technology will evolve and how initiatives should be prioritized by value, risk, resilience, technical debt, and dependencies.
Guide investment decisions by aligning technology plans and investments with business vision and strategy.
Provide senior leadership steering in the design, governance, and oversight of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for domain business problems.
Develop leaders and teams to advance architecture and business objectives.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance
401K with employer match
Generous paid time off
Wellness programs
Railroad Retirement Benefits
Paid caregiving days and backup care
Health Savings Account
Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
Fertility and Family Building Benefits
No-cost Personal Health Advocate
Student Loan Assistance
Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance
Medical Plan Opt-out Credit
Tuition and Education Reimbursement
Paid Family Leave
Life Insurance
Rail Pass Privileges
Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
No-cost Financial Advisor Sessions
Commuter and Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-term incentive bonus may be offered based on factors such as individual and company performance.