[Hiring] Senior Technology Architect @Gilbane Building Company

Role Description

Are you looking for a highly rewarding opportunity that provides extensive career growth opportunity? Gilbane is seeking a Sr. Technology Architect to provide strategic and technical leadership in the design, evaluation, and governance of enterprise technology capabilities. This role translates business objectives into scalable, secure, reliable, and sustainable architectures while ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, standards, and roadmaps. This role can be located near any Gilbane office or remote.

Responsibilities

• Defines and maintains architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical guidance for assigned domains.
• Leads architecture and high-level design activities for strategic business and technology initiatives.
• Translates business capabilities, requirements, and constraints into practical architectures.
• Ensures architectures address key attributes such as scalability, security, reliability, interoperability, performance, maintainability, and supportability.
• Supports enterprise strategies and roadmaps by developing current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.
• Identifies relevant dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities across technology domains.
• Participates in architecture reviews, governance processes, portfolio planning, and the development of technology roadmaps.
• Provides architecture guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle to maintain alignment with approved designs and enterprise standards.
• Partners with business and technology stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational needs, and technology requirements; aligns architecture decisions with business priorities, enterprise capabilities, and long-term technology strategies.
• Communicates critical decision points such as options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences; facilitates collaboration across business teams, product teams, delivery teams, security, operations, and vendors.
• Serves as a trusted advisor for technology strategy solution design, and architectural decision-making.
• Promotes consistency and reuse across Business Units, applications, and technology initiatives.
• Coaches and mentors less experienced team members.
• Supports a positive and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; advanced degree preferred but not required.
• 5+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
• Certification or familiarity with architecture frameworks such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or Zachman preferred.
• Relevant architecture, cloud, application, data, or technology certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), or comparable certification preferred.
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Requirements

• Experience designing enterprise-scale solutions across applications, data platforms, integrations, analytics, and cloud services.
• Experience evaluating packaged applications, cloud services, platform capabilities, and custom-development approaches to determine appropriate technology solutions.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise and data architecture, including data modeling, governance, information management, APIs, integration patterns, ETL/ELT, data lineage, access controls, and security principles.
• Understanding of application architecture principles, including service boundaries, scalability, resiliency, observability, interoperability, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to define architecture patterns and standards for APIs, events, messaging, data exchange, workflow orchestration, and system integration.
• Ability to translate business requirements and long-term objectives into scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions.
• Ability to architect solutions that balance governance, security, compliance, and data controls with innovation and agility.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, with the ability to identify root causes and build alignment across business, technology, and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities for their potential to improve business outcomes, delivery effectiveness, and technology sustainability.

Benefits

• Salary to be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience of the applicant, as well as the internal equity and alignment with the team.
• The pay ranges from $110,000-$155,000.00 plus benefits and retirement program.
• Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan.
• We invest in our employees’ education and have built Gilbane University into a top training organization in the construction industry.
• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.