Enterprise Solutions Architect

About Us

The Colorado Rockies Baseball Club is embracing the climb, committed to building a championship-caliber organization on the field, in the clubhouse, and throughout our business operations. We embrace innovation, collaboration, and evidence-based practices to support our players, staff, and fans.

Rooted in the traditions of America’s pastime, we operate with integrity, service, quality, and trust while striving to create an exceptional experience for our players, staff, and fans.

Position Summary

The Enterprise Solutions Architect helps the Rockies make sound technology decisions across business and baseball operations. This role aligns enterprise applications, integrations, cloud services, data, security, and partner solutions into a secure, reliable, and supportable technology environment.

As the first dedicated architecture position within Information Systems, this person will establish practical standards, review processes, roadmaps, reusable design patterns, and decision records. This senior individual contributor leads through expertise and influence, partnering with technology leaders, department owners, engineers, application administrators, Information Security, data teams, vendors, and managed partners.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Establish the Architecture Function

• Establish architecture principles, technology standards, reference patterns, review criteria, intake processes, decision records, exception practices, and a repository of current and future-state designs.
• Define when architecture review is needed for major investments, new platforms, integrations, cloud and data changes, artificial intelligence capabilities, and significant system changes.
• Assess the current technology environment, dependencies, technical debt, and lifecycle risks; identify opportunities to simplify systems and reuse existing capabilities.
• Build relationships across business and baseball operations so architecture informs priorities and solution selection early in planning.

Enterprise and Solution Architecture

• Translate business needs into solution options, target architectures, tradeoffs, sequencing, and recommendations leaders can act on.
• Guide design across enterprise applications, software as a service, Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, data services, identity, connectivity, venue technologies, and partner-managed environments.
• Define reusable cloud foundation patterns for landing zones, network topology, private connectivity, identity integration, workload placement, infrastructure as code, and governed self-service provisioning.
• Establish patterns for interoperability, authentication, data movement, logging, monitoring, resilience, recovery, scalability, supportability, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate build, buy, reuse, and partner options based on business value, total cost, risk, time to value, internal capacity, support requirements, and long-term fit.
• Review internal designs and vendor solutions, identify gaps and dependencies, and help teams resolve architecture questions throughout delivery.
• Specify cloud foundation design details across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises connectivity, including account and subscription structure, VPC and virtual network topology, subnetting, peering, DNS, traffic routing, and secure paths between cloud and approved on-premises services.

Initial Cloud Foundation Implementation and Handoff

• Until a cloud/data/AI engineer or other operational owner is assigned, personally deliver the initial shared cloud foundation work needed to make the target architecture usable and supportable, including building, validating, and documenting foundational configurations.
• Design and implement initial federated identity and access patterns across cloud environments, on-premises systems, and SaaS platforms, coordinating with the enterprise identity owner. Establish automated provisioning, group-based entitlements, role-based access, and consistent identity propagation where platform capabilities allow; reduce sign-in friction for nontechnical users through simpler single sign-on.
• Design and implement secure cloud and hybrid network foundations, including VPCs and virtual networks, subnetting, peering, private connectivity, DNS, routing, segmentation, and secure paths to approved on-premises services and data sources.
• Build reusable landing zones, infrastructure-as-code modules, and approved templates for common compute, serverless, and application-hosting needs. Enable analytics and application teams to provision within documented identity, security, logging, and cost guardrails.
• Implement and document initial cross-cloud data movement patterns and regional placement guidance; tagging, allocation, and consolidated cost reporting; and AI gateway or observability foundations as priorities and readiness permit.
• Create a deliberate handoff for each operational capability, including architecture decisions, diagrams, configurations, code repositories, access, runbooks, known risks, and named ownership. Continue to advise on complex issues and material changes after handoff.
• Keep this interim build scope focused on shared foundations and cross-platform enablement. Application feature development and data-pipeline development remain with the relevant application, product, and data teams; the Architect addresses underlying architecture and platform constraints with those teams.

Platform Strategy and Technology Value

• Maintain cross-platform roadmaps that connect departmental priorities with enterprise direction, dependencies, lifecycle needs, and investment timing.
• Lead platform capability reviews covering adoption, licensing, vendor roadmaps, emerging features, technical debt, duplication, and use of capabilities already purchased.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, consolidation, and reuse across platforms such as Salesforce, UKG, Sage Intacct, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Dialpad, cloud services, analytics tools, and baseball technologies.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, and platform owners on cloud cost visibility, tagging, allocation, workload cost modeling, and optimization; define measurable outcomes and revisit major technology decisions as needs change.
• Establish consolidated cost visibility across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, on-premises infrastructure, and partner-managed environments. Set tagging and allocation standards that attribute spend to teams, projects, and workloads; develop cost models before architectural decisions; identify optimization opportunities including data-transfer and egress costs; and partner with Finance and Procurement on cloud agreements and committed-use options, providing analysis for decisions made by the appropriate business owner.

Integration Data Cloud and Artificial Intelligence

• Establish design standards for APIs, events, file exchange, workflow automation, low-code solutions, and partner-managed integrations.
• Guide workload placement across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and partner environments while limiting unnecessary fragmentation.
• Partner with business data owners, Baseball Analytics, enterprise data resources, and vendors to align data movement, access, governance, and platform design while preserving domain ownership of data definitions and analytics.
• Evaluate embedded and standalone AI capabilities for business value, data readiness, security, integration fit, governance, responsible use, and supportability.
• Guide secure AI platform patterns for model access, data connectivity, gateways, logging, performance and usage monitoring, and cost visibility.
• During initial implementation, build secure and observable AI platform patterns for cloud-hosted and self-hosted models. Include model access, secure network paths to approved data, including regulated data subject to applicable requirements, gateways, and monitoring of model inputs and outputs, performance, usage, and cost. Establish reusable guardrails so teams can develop AI applications on a compliant, observable foundation without separately solving connectivity, security, and cost tracking.

Security Governance and Delivery Partnerships

• Incorporate security and privacy requirements into designs, including least privilege, data protection, secrets management, secure integration, logging, resilience, and third-party risk.
• Partner with Information Security to apply and validate security requirements and with vendors and managed partners to align solutions with Rockies standards.
• Present recommendations, dependencies, risks, lifecycle impacts, and exceptions in plain language; elevate major strategy, investment, risk, and exception decisions to Senior Director, Information Technology.
• Provide clear implementation guidance and remain engaged through delivery to resolve design questions, assess material changes, and manage technical debt.
• Communicate effectively with executives, technical staff, department leaders, vendors, and employees with different levels of technical experience.

Role Scope and Decision Authority

• Senior Director, Information Technology owns technology strategy, investment direction, enterprise priorities, and major commercial decisions. The Architect provides enterprise design, standards, analysis, and recommendations within delegated authority.
• Platform owners, engineers, application and department administrators, infrastructure and stadium technology teams, vendors, and managed partners own implementation and ongoing operations. Until a designated operational owner is assigned and a documented handoff is complete, the Architect is responsible for hands-on design, configuration, implementation, testing, documentation, and initial operation of the shared cloud, identity, networking, infrastructure-as-code, cost-visibility, and AI-platform foundations described above. The Architect may develop proofs of concept and reference implementations to validate designs; the role does not serve as the primary project manager or day-to-day administrator for enterprise applications. After handoff, routine provisioning, deployment, administration, monitoring, and support move to the designated operational owner.
• Information Security owns security requirements and risk practices. Business departments retain ownership of processes, priorities, data definitions, and outcomes; data and analytics teams retain ownership of domain methods and models.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Follow Club requirements for information security, privacy, records retention, change management, vendor management, and appropriate use of data and artificial intelligence.
• Support major implementations, migrations, acquisitions, audits, incident reviews, and technology planning as assigned.
• Maintain productive relationships with employees, Major League Baseball, vendors, partners, and Information Systems colleagues; support an inclusive workplace that values individual differences.
• Perform other technology-related duties consistent with the position.

Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise or cross-platform solutions spanning cloud, SaaS, applications, data, integrations, identity, and security.
• Experience translating business goals and constraints into solution options, target architectures, roadmaps, standards, and actionable technical guidance.
• Strong working knowledge of APIs, integration patterns, data movement, cloud networking, hybrid architecture, identity and access principles, infrastructure as code, cloud cost governance, resilience, scalability, lifecycle planning, and technical debt.
• Experience evaluating vendors and making build, buy, reuse, or partner recommendations based on value, cost, risk, supportability, and long-term fit.
• Ability to document architecture through diagrams, standards, decision records, roadmaps, and concise written recommendations.
• Ability to explain complex tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences and guide decisions through credibility and influence.
• Sound judgment, curiosity, follow-through, and comfort creating structure where processes, ownership, and standards are developing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience establishing an enterprise or solutions architecture practice or governance process.
• Experience with several comparable enterprise platforms, such as Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, GCP, AWS, Salesforce, ERP, HRIS, contact-center, or analytics platforms.
• Experience in a mid-sized organization with distributed application ownership, managed partners, and limited specialist capacity.
• Experience evaluating platform roadmaps, embedded AI, AI architecture and observability, workflow automation, data platforms, and emerging technologies.
• Experience supporting sports, entertainment, hospitality, venues, or another event-driven organization.
• Relevant education or architecture, cloud, security, data, or platform certification.

Work Schedule and Location

This position sits at Coors Field. Standard work hours are generally Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Occasional evenings, weekends, holidays, after-hours, game-day, or special-event work may be required for major projects, releases, cutovers, or operational needs. Limited travel and Spring Training coverage may be required.

Physical Job Requirements

• Ability to work for extended periods at a computer and use standard office technology.
• Ability to move throughout offices, stadium areas, meeting spaces, and other supported locations as needed. Essential functions may be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Compensation and Benefits

Annual Salary Range: $160,000 - $200,000. This is a regular-status, full-time, salaried exempt position.

As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, job-related skills, and any other factors the Colorado Rockies consider relevant to the hiring decision for this position.

In addition to the base salary, the Club believes in providing a very competitive and generous compensation and benefits package for its employees. Benefits include but are not limited to Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with employer match, generous vacation and holiday program, employee parking, employer-provided game tickets to home games, onsite fitness classes and experiences, employee discounts on merchandise, and so much more! All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and the terms of official plan documents, which may be modified or amended at any given time.

Application Process

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis but must be received by 11/23/2026. The posting may be removed or extended at any time.

The estimated time to complete the recruitment process will be by 01/04/2027.

A note for Colorado Rockies employees: Please apply via the internal job board in UKG by following these prompts: MENU > MYSELF > MY COMPANY > VIEW OPPORTUNITIES > select the position > CONSENT > APPLY NOW

If you cannot access UKG, please list your most recent Manager as an Employee Reference on your application.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Rockies baseball is for everyone! We pride ourselves on hiring, developing, and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, we will endeavor to provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities in compliance with the ADA. All employment and promotion decisions will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs.

The Colorado Rockies participate in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States.

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