Senior Infrastructure Architect (Charlotte)

IT Infrastructure Architect (Contract) | $60$65 / hr.

Role : IT Infrastructure Architect

L ocation : Charlotte, NC Hybrid / On-site (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)

Employment Type : Contract (6-12 month duration)

About the Role

WorkForce Unlimited is seeking a senior-level Infrastructure Architect who is passionate about designing modern, resilient, and scalable technology solutions that power business growth. In this influential role, youll shape the future of enterprise infrastructure, lead complex integration initiatives, and collaborate with architecture leaders across the organization.

This is an excellent opportunity for a strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving high-impact technical challenges, and is energized by the chance to innovate across a diverse technology landscape.

What Youll Do

• Lead infrastructure integration activities across user experience and collaboration platforms, data center and cloud design, workload migrations, Active Directory / Entra ID, and Office 365 consolidation efforts.
• Partner closely with the Enterprise Architecture team to define design strategies, standards, and frameworks. Develop and publish architecture principles, position papers, blueprints, patterns, and best practices.
• Provide strategic direction for infrastructure domains including public cloud, directory services, collaboration, network, storage, servers, databases, and security practices.
• Champion shared systems, reusable tools, and standardized solutions to support cost-efficiency and improved communication across teams.
• Ensure architectural consistency, eliminating duplicative efforts and aligning solutions with overall business and IT strategy.
• Serve as a Level 4 escalation point for operational issues, supporting complex problem resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Oversee technology lifecycle planning to ensure solutions remain current, reliable, and secure across application, network, desktop, server, and storage environments.
• Develop and maintain an enterprise technology vision; assess current needs and anticipate future infrastructure requirements.
• Ensure installations, upgrades, and architecture decisions comply with policies, procedures, and licensing parameters.
• Identify and implement best practices in infrastructure architecture, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security.
• Evaluate software requirements and lead architectural efforts for high availability and disaster recovery planning.

What You Bring

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