Manager IT Architecture - Enterprise & Cloud

**Position Summary** The Manager IT Architecture (Enterprise & Cloud) will stand up Architecture Office from greenfield; establishing the operating model, standards, and team needed to govern enterprise and Microsoft Azure architecture. This leader manages a small team and partners closely with Operations, Service Delivery/PMO, and GRC to ensure designs meet non‑functional requirements for availability, performance, recoverability (RTO/RPO), and scalability. The ideal candidate blends deep Azure and hybrid networking experience with an enterprise mindset, strong stakeholder communication, and a bias toward pragmatic, reusable patterns. **Essential Position Duties** - Stand up the Architecture Office from greenfield: define mission, scope, engagement model, and success metrics; establish design intake, review gates, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). - Recruit, lead, and coach a high‑performing team of up to 2 architects; set objectives, mentoring plans, and career paths. - Own the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) program from greenfield: define the data model and critical CIs/services, quality thresholds, discovery and service‑mapping approach, and post‑change update processes; integrate CMDB with change, incident, and problem management. - Publish and maintain enterprise and platform roadmaps (identity, integration/data flows, networking, compute, storage/backup, observability) and synchronize with Service Delivery. - Define and govern non‑functional requirements (availability, performance, recoverability/RTO‑RPO, scalability); align with SLAs and validate through DR testing. - Establish Azure landing zone guardrails and baseline templates (IaaS/PaaS). - Design hybrid connectivity and segmentation patterns with Operations (e.g., SD‑WAN, VPN, Private DNS, Private Link, ExpressRoute as applicable). - Serve as design authority for PMO‑led projects; ensure solution designs meet standards, compliance inputs, and cost targets prior to build; clarify Ops‑led vs PMO‑led expectations. - Partner with Service Delivery on demand intake and prioritization to prevent wrong‑team handoffs and keep backlogs prioritized. - Collaborate with GRC on policy mapping and risk input; security architecture remains under GRC ownership while enterprise/cloud designs meet policy requirements. - Drive FinOps governance with Operations/Finance (tagging, budgets, rightsizing, reservations) and report cloud cost variance to forecast. - Maintain the technology debt register and publish modernization recommendations with owners and time horizons. - Evangelize architecture: publish reference architectures, playbooks, and roadmaps; host office hours and education sessions for engineers and stakeholders - Measure and report architecture KPIs (e.g., design review cycle time, standards adoption, CMDB data quality, DR test pass rate, cloud cost variance). - Handover: Ensure runbooks, support models, monitoring/alerting, and CMDB updates are defined before service transition **Education, Experience & Skills** | Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience. Master’s Degree or MBA preferred 10+ years across enterprise/platform/cloud architecture with 3+ years leading architects or principal engineers. Proven Azure depth: landing zones; identity (Entra ID); networking (VNets/VWAN/peering); PaaS (SQL MI, App Services, APIM); cost management; DR/resiliency patterns. Strong understanding of integration patterns (API, ETL, event-driven), data flows, service modeling, and system-of-record design. Experience defining/enforcing NFRs and leading design reviews across multi-subsidiary or multi-site environments. Demonstrated experience launching/owning a CMDB program (tool-agnostic) and integrating it with ITSM processes. Excellent communication and stakeholder management; translates architectyre into business outcomes and clear decisions Framework awareness is a plus; certifications such as AZ-305/Azure Soluti…