YOUR SUCCESS IS A TRAIN RIDE AWAY!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience as an architect providing vision and choosing platforms moving organizations forward and scaled for expanding future initiatives.
• Requires leadership experience in managing architecture teams and influencing executive level management and key stakeholders.
• Requires demonstrated ability to manage multiple architecture engagement and effectively plan and use staff to ensure the architecture view.
• Must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, work well with others in an integrated team environment, and must be self-motivated.
• Must possess a mastery of business acumen
• Relationship building and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers.
• Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance priorities across multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience leveraging data to inform decision-making.
• Experience managing teams.
• Strong understanding of Architecture best practice and value methodology
• Knowledge of IT, OT, domain and business architecture
• Experience with Agile process for business value realization

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business Management or similar relevant field
• 15+ years of relevant work experience preferred.
• Experience architecting at an enterprise level solving corporate problems.
• Travel and Transportation experience or relevant technology domain experience
• Experience with governance, risk, regulatory and compliance.
• The Architect’s skills and knowledge should span multiple architecture domains (e.g., Business Architecture, Application/Solution Architecture, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture & Information/Data Architecture)

COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
  The salary/hourly range is $187,500-$242,892. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position and/or long-term incentive plan compensation. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges. Learn more about our benefits offerings here.
  Requisition ID:163983
  Posting Location(s):N/A
  Work Arrangement:07-Traveling - Required Click here for more information about work arrangements at Amtrak.
  Job Family/Function:Information Technology
  Relocation Offered:No
  Travel Requirements:Up to 25%

SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

The Sr. Director Architecture - Enterprise Digital Infrastructure is responsible for providing visionary Architecture leadership to ensure technology investments are in alignment with corporate goals and its ability to move towards the future in an evolving business environment. As an IT leader, this role will utilize education, guidance, and governance processes to maximize return on technology investment, and reduce time to capability, while minimizing operational costs. The Sr. Director Architecture will use visionary strategic thinking to choose infrastructure capabilities, strategize and build around them to solve corporate problems. As part of the IT management team the senior director will be responsible for evangelizing for strategic enterprise change, executing strategy, technical leadership, and developing teams to move ideals forward.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Responsible for collaborating with Service and Business owners to create an architecture and technology plan at an enterprise level.
• Experience envisioning and creating a PCI compliant environment or merging companies into a single PCI environment.
• Experience leading an organization through the PCI Audit Process and providing the road map or architecual overview to meet compliance.
• Collaborates with the AVP DT Enterprise Architecture to ensure service offering in Digital Infrastructure is consistent in process and spirit.
• Confers with IT Service Offering leader and direct reports to develop a plan to ensure architecture is driving technology digital infrastructure plans at a corporate level.
• Establishes measurable individual and team objectives that are aligned with business and organizational goals. Documents and presents performance assessments. Recognizes and rewards associates commensurate with performance. Implements organizational practices for staffing, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), diversity, performance management, development, reward and recognition, and retention.
• Ensures staff has the resources and skills needed to support all work initiatives. Forecasts new skill requirements based on emerging technologies. Participates in IT workforce deployment activities. Collaborate with executive leaders to provide strategic advice on enterprise digital infrastructure solutions, utilizing modern architecture practices, and ensuring alignment with the organization’s mission, strategy, and objectives.
• Champion a cross functional team of digital infrastructure leaders within the technology groups to meticulously define a comprehensive strategy and roadmap.

This includes:

• Responsible for creating and leading a vision for enterprise infrastructure architecture in a heavily regulated environment including PCI DSS and other governance, risk and compliance concerns
• This position supports digital infrastructure future states and roadmaps compliant with PCI DSS 4.0, NIST, and other GRC concerns ensuring that Amtrak mitigates risks associated with non-compliance, and is always in compliance ready state, through a safe, secure, stable, regulated and compliant digital infrastructure ecosystem
• Shape a cohesive digital infrastructure architecture strategy. Ensure these elements align seamlessly with the overarching goals of the organization and contribute to its long-term success. This includes formulating strategies for effective cloud of clouds interoperability, establishing robust digital infrastructure practices, establishing architectures for networks, connectivity and communications, compute and storage, data centers, edge, fleet, route, and field services, and IoT that drive exponential growth potential across the enterprise in safe, secure, stable, performant, regulated and compliant manner.
• Review and assess strategies, requirements, and solutions in collaboration with Business and Data leaders to maintain consistency and traceability throughout the enterprise architecture, ensuring the impact on digital infrastructure architecture is well-understood.
• Develop and maintain Enterprise Architecture frameworks and approaches specifically tailored for the digital infrastructure domain. Take on a leadership role in the Enterprise Architecture Leadership Team to drive group maturity and deliver seamless, end-to-end Enterprise Architecture Services.
• Play a pivotal role in expanding the company’s use of digital infrastructure capabilities as a strategic enabler, realizing global business benefits, and fostering local service innovation while adhering to industry-recognized architectural models and roadmaps.
• Manage Capex and Opex financials across the service area.