Title: Lead Solution Architect
📍 Location: 100% Remote
📅 Duration: Long-Term Contract
🚄 Industry: Railways & Transportation
Key Responsibilities:
✅ Lead enterprise and solution architecture initiatives across strategic IT programs
✅ Define conceptual, logical, and solution architectures aligned with business objectives
✅ Develop cloud and infrastructure architecture roadmaps, standards, and governance models
✅ Collaborate with engineering, security, platform, and business stakeholders to drive technology decisions
✅ Present architecture recommendations to executive leadership and architecture review boards
✅ Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards
✅ Drive modernization, cloud adoption, and digital transformation initiatives from strategy through implementation
Required Experience:
✔️ 10+ years of experience across infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise technology domains
✔️ 5+ years of Solution Architecture or Enterprise Architecture experience
✔️ Proven success designing and implementing large-scale enterprise solutions
✔️ Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture with working knowledge of Azure environments
✔️ Deep understanding of networking, identity and access management, security architecture, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
✔️ Experience with enterprise platforms including Mainframe, Java/JEE, .NET, Networking, and eCommerce technologies
✔️ Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, governance processes, and technology standards
✔️ Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills The Successful Candidate Must Demonstrate
🔹 Deep expertise across primarily AWS, along with Azure, networking, identity, security, and Infrastructure as Code
🔹 A proven history of defining enterprise standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and governance frameworks
🔹 Strong infrastructure engineering experience prior to moving into architecture roles
🔹 Experience influencing engineering, security, platform, and executive stakeholders
🔹 Success operating within large, complex, and regulated enterprise environments
🔹 Exceptional communication skills and strong executive presence
Preferred Qualifications:
⭐ Experience within the railway, transportation, travel, logistics, or other highly regulated industries
⭐ Experience leading cloud migration, modernization, and infrastructure transformation initiatives
If you're interested, or know someone who would be a great fit, please feel free to connect or message me directly.