Enterprise Architect

When you join Sunrise Senior Living, you will be able to use your unique skills to empower residents to live longer, healthier, and happier lives. Not only will you build meaningful relationships with residents, their families, and team members alike, you will also gain joy in serving others and deep fulfillment in your work. Explore how you can follow your passions and shed light on meaningful ways to serve, grow, and shine together.

Sunrise Senior Living was again certified as a Great Place to Work by Activated Insights. This is the 8th time Sunrise has received this top culture and workplace designation, highlighting the special place Sunrise is to be a part of.

COMMUNITY NAME

Community Support Office

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JOB OVERVIEW

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to design and build our future-state cloud infrastructure while supporting our current hybrid environment. This role will architect scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions, maintain our hybrid Active Directory/Entra ID environment, and manage connectivity across our 250+ communities and our legacy data center. The Enterprise Architect owns the technical roadmap for our cloud transformation journey, establishing modern infrastructure patterns for long-term success and leading a strategic, phased migration from on-premises to the cloud.

RESPONSIBILITIES & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Duties

As a part of the Sunrise team, supporting our Mission, Principles of Service and Core Values is a fundamental part of this job. Our foundational belief is the sacred value of human life. The unique responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to the essential functions listed as follows:

• Establish foundational patterns for networking, security, identity, compute, storage, and observability.
• Develop and own the technical roadmap for cloud transformation and data center migration.
• Translate business strategy and requirements into reference architectures and implementation plans.
• Present trade-offs and total cost of ownership (TCO) implications; align investments to business priorities and ROI.
• Architect and maintain hybrid connectivity between cloud platforms, data center, and branch offices.
• Support and optimize hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID during transition; plan identity modernization.
• Maintain compliance in assigned required training and all training required by state/province or other regulating authorities as applicable to this role to ensure that Sunrise standards are always met.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Core Competencies

• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Strong critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and thought leadership skills
• Bridge the gap between engineering, product, security, and operations teams to align on goals and foster a culture of shared responsibility
• Project Management

Experience and Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed throughout this job description are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required.

• Enterprise networking: DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, BGP, routing, VLANs, segmentation, NSGs/network ACLs, Hybrid Connectivity.
• Identity: Hybrid AD/Entra ID architectures; federation, SSO, conditional access.
• Cloud: Deep experience with cloud migrations, sequencing, re-platforming, and cost management.
• Certifications: Solutions Architect professional or equivalent.
• 8+ years in Enterprise operations, Systems Engineering, or Software Development.

ABOUT SUNRISE

Ready to take the next step and make a bigger impact than you ever imagined? As part of our team, you will help brighten the future for everyone at Sunrise and beyond. That is why we make it a priority to celebrate the unique ways you bring moments of togetherness and joy to everyone you serve. And when combined with the support, benefits, and growth opportunities we offer, the result is a career that PositivelyShines with everything you need to reach your goals – at work and in your life.

We also offer benefits and other compensation that include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Plans
• Retirement Savings Plans
• Employee Assistant Program / Discount Program
• Paid time off (PTO), sick time, and holiday pay
• myFlexPay offered to get paid within hours of a shift 
• Tuition Reimbursement
• In addition to base compensation, Sunrise may offer discretionary and/or non-discretionary bonuses. The eligibility to receive such a bonus will depend on the employee's position, plan/program offered by Sunrise at the time, and required performance pursuant to the plan/program.
• Some benefits have eligibility requirements

Apply today to learn why Sunrise Senior Living is a certified Great Place to Work

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS

Sunrise considers the health and safety of its residents, family members, and team members to be one of its highest priorities. Employment with Sunrise is conditioned on completing and passing a drug test (which does not include marijuana), participating in testing requirements (e.g. Tuberculosis Test, Physical Evaluation). Covid-19 and Influenza vaccination is only required to the extent mandated by applicable federal, state, and local laws and authorities.

COMPENSATION DISCLAIMER

Selected candidates will be offered competitive compensation based on geographic location of community/office, skills, experience, qualifications, and certifications/licenses (where applicable).

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