Principal Lab Infrastructure and Security Solutions Architect

Principal Lab Infrastructure and Security Solutions Architect

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

Core Responsibilities

• Define current-state and future-state architecture for Global Lab infrastructure. Develop scalable, secure, and repeatable reference architectures and technology patterns.
• Lead a small engineering team that establishes architectural principles for compute, storage, networking, and virtualization infrastructure. Ensure architectural decisions consider security, reliability, scalability, performance, cost, maintainability, and operational complexity.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for cybersecurity architecture within local risk environments. Influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Work cross-organizationally with IT and Cybersecurity and Digital Risk Management (CDRM) and serve as a senior escalation point for highly complex infrastructure and cybersecurity problems.
• Support risk assessments and architectural exception processes.
• Lead cross-functional architecture initiatives without requiring direct management authority.
• Represent infrastructure architecture and cybersecurity considerations in strategic planning.
• Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical specialists.

Core Competencies

Systems & Strategic Thinking
Understands complex dependencies across technology, security, operations, and business, translating objectives into long-term strategies and practical architecture roadmaps.

Technical & Cybersecurity Expertise
Applies deep expertise across infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity, embedding security-by-design principles and identifying systemic technical and security risks.

Risk-Based Decision Making
Balances security, business value, cost, operational risk, technical constraints, and innovation to make sound enterprise-level decisions.

Technical Authority & Accountability
Serves as a trusted technical authority, makes decisions that optimize enterprise outcomes, and takes ownership of complex architectural decisions and their long-term impact.

Influence & Collaboration
Builds alignment and drives adoption across engineering, security, operations, and business organizations without relying on direct authority.

Problem Solving & Innovation
Solves complex, ambiguous, and novel challenges while evaluating emerging technologies and identifying opportunities for technical and business value.

Simplification & Standardization
Reduces complexity through standardized, scalable, secure, and repeatable architectures and engineering practices.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship
Elevates organizational technical capability by mentoring engineers and architects, sharing expertise, and establishing effective engineering practices.

Communication
Clearly communicates complex technical, architectural, and cybersecurity concepts to engineers, architects, executives, and non-technical stakeholders.

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_05

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