Hiring: Distinguished Lead Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture Company: GlobalFoundries Location: Malta, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:02:19 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Zero Trust About the job Experience: •15+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, engineering, or technology leadership roles within large-scale, mission-critical environments. Required Skills: •Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps across hybrid infrastructure domains. •Set target-state architecture for colocation, data center, compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, virtualization, Kubernetes, and edge platforms. •Lead architectural reviews for major infrastructure investments, platform decisions, modernization initiatives, lifecycle plans, and risk mitigation programs. •Establish workload placement principles across public cloud, private cloud, colocation, and on-premises environments, balancing cost, resilience, performance, security, and operational complexity. •Drive architecture governance, decision frameworks, and technology standards that improve consistency across regions, manufacturing sites, and business units. •Identify and reduce infrastructure-related risks, technical debt, vendor concentration exposure, scalability constraints, and resiliency gaps. •Partner with cybersecurity and operations teams to embed Zero Trust, segmentation, secure connectivity, observability, automation, and compliance requirements into infrastructure patterns. •Evaluate emerging technologies such as AIOps, autonomous operations, software-defined infrastructure, platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, and edge computing, and guide practical adoption. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent senior technical experience may be considered. •Deep expertise across multiple infrastructure domains, including storage, compute, virtualization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and automation. •Proven ability to define enterprise-wide technology strategies, architecture standards, target-state models, and multi-year roadmaps. •Strong experience leading architecture governance, executive-level technology decisions, and cross-functional alignment across IT, security, operations, and business stakeholders. •Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical architecture into clear business impact, decision options, and investment recommendations. •TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture experience. •Demonstrated industry influence through publications, patents, conference speaking, standards participation, or enterprise-wide innovation leadership. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!