Distinguished Lead Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture

Location: Richardson, United States

Company

hirify.global operates large-scale semiconductor manufacturing and mission-critical technology environments.

What you will do

• Define enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Set target-state architecture for datacentres, colocation, compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, virtualization, Kubernetes, and edge platforms.
• Lead architectural reviews for infrastructure investments, modernization initiatives, lifecycle plans, and risk mitigation programs.
• Establish workload placement principles across public cloud, private cloud, colocation, and on-premises environments.
• Drive architecture governance and technology standards across regions, manufacturing sites, and business units.
• Partner with cybersecurity and operations teams on Zero Trust, segmentation, secure connectivity, observability, automation, and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent senior technical experience may be considered.
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, engineering, or technology leadership in large-scale, mission-critical environments.
• Deep expertise in storage, compute, virtualization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and automation.
• Experience defining enterprise technology strategies, architecture standards, target-state models, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Experience leading architecture governance, executive-level technology decisions, and cross-functional alignment.
• Exceptional communication skills for translating complex architecture into business impact and investment recommendations.

Nice to have

• TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and enterprise-scale automation.
• Experience in regulated, manufacturing, semiconductor, or 24x7 mission-critical environments.
• Industry influence through publications, patents, conference speaking, standards participation, or innovation leadership.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a large-scale manufacturing technology organization.
• Opportunity to advise executive leadership and architecture governance bodies.
• Responsibility for improving operational resilience, cybersecurity, manufacturing uptime, and digital transformation.
• Equal-opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support during the hiring process.