Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Services

Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI Develop comprehensive solution design documents for infrastructure-led projects, translating business and operational requirements into technically sound, standards-aligned architectures.Collaborate with Infrastructure Service Owners and Directors to capture technical requirements and constraints that shape solution designs.Ensure designs account for scalability, performance, resilience, fault tolerance, security controls, and operational supportability.Produce architecture artifacts including logical and physical design diagrams, component specifications, dependency maps, integration considerations, and implementation guidance.Present solution designs to the architecture review board, incorporating feedback and resolving open issues prior to design approval.Maintain solution design documentation throughout the project lifecycle, updating designs to reflect decisions, scope changes, or implementation realities. Document and maintain institutional infrastructure architecture, including current-state environment documentation, approved reference architectures, and design patterns for common scenarios.Contribute to the development and refinement of infrastructure architecture standards and technical guardrails.Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) capturing the rationale behind significant design decisions, evaluated alternatives, and identified trade-offs.Develop and maintain a library of reusable reference architectures, design templates, and implementation guidelines that promote consistency and accelerate delivery.Ensure documentation standards are applied consistently across all solution design and architecture artifacts to support auditability and future reference. Support the evaluation of proposed infrastructure solutions for alignment with WPI architectural principles and institutional standards.Assess submissions for technical soundness across networking, server and virtualization platforms, storage, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and datacenter architecture.Identify technical risks, design gaps, and areas of non-alignment; document findings clearly and provide actionable remediation guidance.Engage submitters with technical questions and guidance to support a constructive review process - the goal is to help solutions succeed while maintaining appropriate standards.Contribute to ongoing improvement of architecture review criteria, intake processes, and evaluation consistency. Partner with infrastructure engineers across network, systems, storage, endpoints, cloud, and datacenter disciplines to translate approved designs into actionable implementation plans.Resolve technical ambiguities and open design questions before and during engineering handoff to reduce implementation risk and rework.Provide ongoing technical guidance during implementation to ensure engineering execution remains consistent with approved architectures.Participate in implementation reviews and post-project retrospectives to validate design fidelity and capture lessons learned.Work with the Infrastructure DevOps team to promote Infrastructure-as-Code adoption, standardized configuration management, and automated build and deployment practices.

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