[Hiring] Staff Systems Architect @GCI Communication Corp

Role Description

Responsible for defining, designing, communicating, and evolving systems architecture for enterprise IT systems, integrations, and application environments to ensure technology solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, supportable, and aligned to business outcomes and enterprise technology strategy. Partners with business owners, product management, product owners, scrum teams, release train engineers, engineering, security, infrastructure, operations, and architecture stakeholders to translate business capabilities, epics, features, non-functional requirements, and value stream objectives into actionable architecture models, architectural runway, enabler work, system designs, integration approaches, technical roadmaps, and delivery guidance. Provides architectural leadership from intake and discovery through PI planning, iterative delivery, release, system demo, operational readiness, and continuous improvement to ensure systems deliver measurable business value while managing performance, interoperability, compliance, risk, technical debt, and long-term sustainability.

Qualifications

• A combination of relevant work experience and/or education sufficient to perform the duties of the job may substitute to meet the total years required on a year-for-year basis.
• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Analysis, Engineering, or a relevant field.
• Minimum of six (6) years of experience in at least two disciplines in a telecommunications and/or IT environment, including systems architecture, systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, network design, application platforms, integration, cloud services, data architecture, security/compliance, and operational support.

Requirements

• CCAr, TOGAF, CEA, Certified SOA Architect, CITA, EACOE, Open CA, FEAC certifications.
• Agile team leadership or project management experience.
• Cloud certifications: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud.
• Telecommunications experience.
• Other relevant telecom industry or job specific certifications.
• ServiceNow certifications: Certified Technical Architect (CTA).

Benefits

• Work collaboratively as a senior technical professional supporting business users, product management, and technical teams.
• Contribute to documentation, template, process, and model repository.

Company Description

At GCI, we foster an environment where the unique perspectives of our employees, customers, and fellow Alaskans are celebrated. We add value to our community by nurturing and empowering each member of our workforce, ensuring equal opportunities for every Trailblazer.