Executes the vision, future direction, and initiative roadmap for strategic infrastructure technology programs, with a focus on enterprise DDI and global traffic management architectures. Defines architectures that enable resilient, scalable, secure, and globally optimized application delivery across on premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

**This hybrid role (in office Tues-Wed-Thurs) can be based in Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, Wayne, PA, or Scottsdale AZ**

Responsibilities:

• Provides the architectural leadership in shaping strategic, infrastructure technology programs and planning
• Leverages knowledge capital available through subscription research services and critical resources for related knowledge capital, inclusive of blogs, podcasts, webinar, etc.
• Produces technology roadmaps, defines reference and implementation architectures, and develops proof-of-concept prototypes and initial implementation models.
• Ensures implementation solutions support architecture objectives (availability, scalability, performance, security, etc.), as appropriate, and monitors implementation activities to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld.
• Utilizes partnership skills especially in the areas of persuasion, influence, conceptualizing solutions and problem solving.
• Communicates complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.
• Establishes relationships with IT leaders, architects, and technical specialists for the purpose of advancing proposed architectural solutions, and ensuring availability of infrastructure technologies and support.
• Possesses deep understanding of the competitive landscape and corporate and business unit strategies to provide context for architectural decision making.
• Identifies and mitigates risks of introducing architecture technology enhancements, ensures that IT project teams comply with IT Governance policies and procedures.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Defines enterprise DDI architectures, including authoritative, recursive, and hybrid DNS models.
• Provides architectural leadership for global traffic management (GTM) solutions, including Akamai GTM, and their integration with enterprise DNS platforms.
• Establishes standards for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) resiliency, availability, scalability, and performance to support critical enterprise and customer‑facing applications.
• Designs and governs DDI architectures, including DNS views, zone design, delegation models, DHCP scopes, IPAM workflows, and role‑based access controls.
• Ensures DDI and traffic management architectures support disaster recovery, geo‑redundancy, application failover, and automation‑driven recovery scenarios.
• Defines patterns for secure DNS architectures, including DNS security controls, segmentation, and integration with enterprise security and zero‑trust initiatives.
• Leads the integration of DDI platforms with automation and orchestration tools, enabling API‑driven DNS/IP lifecycle management and infrastructure‑as‑code workflows.
• Partners with network, application, cloud, and security teams to ensure DDI designs align with enterprise reliability, security, compliance, and operational governance objectives.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of technology architect experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Deep understanding of DNS architecture, DDI services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), and enterprise DNS operations.
• Architectural experience designing and governing DDI platforms for enterprise‑scale deployments.
• Experience designing and governing global traffic management solutions, including Akamai GTM, and their interaction with enterprise DNS ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of DNS automation, API‑driven provisioning, and lifecycle management in large‑scale environments, including experience with IaC pipelines.
• Deep understanding of how DDI and GTM integrate with application, network, cloud, and security architectures.