Job Description

The MTA is seeking a highly skilled Senior Enterprise Architect with deep expertise in application modernization, cloud-native design, and enterprise application portfolio management. This role focuses on hands-on architecture execution developing modern solutions, guiding cloud migrations, creating reusable standards, and partnering with engineering teams to modernize and streamline the application landscape. The architect will work primarily on both AWS, Azure and hybrid environments, supporting modernization roadmaps, technical debt reduction, and application lifecycle governance.

• Develop and maintain application and integration architecture standards. Create reusable modernization patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven, containerization). Support solution architects and delivery teams in applying approved standards.
• Design modernization paths for legacy applications: rehost, replatform, refactor, retire. Architect cloud-native and hybrid solutions primarily on Azure (AKS, Functions, APIM, PaaS). Guide workload decomposition, domain boundaries, service design, and modernization roadmaps.
• Build and evolve Azure landing zone components and cloud governance configurations. Define infrastructure, integration, API, and data patterns for cloud adoption. Support hybrid cloud integrations with Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform where applicable.
• Perform architecture-led assessments using frameworks such as TIME or 6R. Identify consolidation, migration, and retirement opportunities to reduce redundancy. Partner with ServiceNow APM/CMDB to ensure accurate application inventory and lifecycle data.
• Maintain application-level technical debt insights across the portfolio. Provide guidance on remediation strategies, patterns, and target-state architecture alignment.
• Contribute to IaC templates using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, or Pulumi. Support CI/CD pipeline architecture using GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Jenkins. Partner with DevOps teams to apply automation and configuration management practices (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Apply cloud security best practices and integrate IAM/RBAC, network security, and Key Vault usage into designs. Ensure alignment with CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and MTA security requirements. Support cloud cost optimization efforts using Azure Advisor and FinOps guidelines.
• Work closely with DevOps, Networking, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Finance, and Procurement teams. Translate complex modernization concepts into clear, actionable guidance for business and technical stakeholders.

If you are bright, motivated, skilled, a difference-maker, able to get things done, work with minimum direction, enthusiastic, a thinker, able to juggle and multi-task, communicate effectively, and lead, then we would like to hear from you.

Since 2000, OpenKyber has been an MBE/SDB certified IT Consulting firm in the Philadelphia region. OpenKyber specializes in IT staffing, software development (web and mobile apps), systems integration, data analytics, system automation, cybersecurity, and cloud technology solutions for government and commercial clients. OpenKyber works with clients to overcome obstacles such as increasing productivity, increasing efficiencies through automation, and lowering costs. Our clients benefit from our three distinguishing core values: integrity, diligence, and technological excellence. OpenKyber is a six-time winner among the fastest-growing companies in Philadelphia and a four-time winner on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing companies.

For applications and inquiries, contact:hirings@openkyber.com

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