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@HYVE Solutions, missions to help customers, business partners, and employees achieve success through shared goals, strategies, resources and technology solutions.

Lead and drive next-generation infrastructure architecture development across Hyve's CTO Architecture organization spanning compute, server, storage, networking, rack-scale infrastructure, systems software, power, cooling, and operational architecture.

This role is a senior hands-on technical leadership position responsible for driving technical depth, architectural quality, technology direction, and engineering excellence across the organization. The architect will operate horizontally across multiple architecture and engineering domains, helping shape technologies, architectures, technical decisions, engineering mechanisms, and future infrastructure direction across the company.

The role requires a highly experienced systems technologist with deep expertise in networking, Linux systems, low-level software, and distributed infrastructure, combined with broad architectural understanding spanning hardware, software, rack infrastructure, datacenter systems, and operational scaling.

This individual will serve as a senior technical authority and trusted architectural leader across the CTO organization, helping drive technical quality, evaluate architectures, strengthen specifications, guide engineering teams, and accelerate development of next-generation datacenter infrastructure platforms and technologies.

Drive technical architecture development across multiple CTO Architecture functions including:

• platform architecture
• systems architecture
• storage architecture
• solutions architecture
• rack/POD/datacenter power architecture
• platform power and cooling
• PnP and performance optimization
• firmware/software manageability and telemetry
• board architecture and BOM optimization
• SI/PI architecture
• engineering automation and AI-assisted tooling
• ecosystem technology strategy

Provide deep architectural guidance across infrastructure hardware, software, networking, storage, and operational systems.

Drive development of technically rigorous system specifications, architecture definitions, design reviews, and engineering standards.

Evaluate and guide architectural tradeoffs across:

• performance
• power
• cooling
• scalability
• manufacturability
• serviceability
• deployment efficiency
• operational reliability

Partner with architecture and engineering teams to shape future compute, server, storage, networking, and rack-scale infrastructure platforms.

Help drive architecture consistency and technical quality across platforms, systems, and customer solutions.

Provide technical leadership for complex customer and ecosystem engagements.

Mentor architects and senior engineers across multiple technical disciplines.

Guide technical direction for infrastructure software, telemetry, automation, orchestration, and engineering productivity tooling.

Influence technology selection, ecosystem alignment, and future infrastructure roadmap direction.

Support evaluation and hiring of senior technical talent across the architecture organization.

Drive cross-functional technical collaboration between architecture, engineering, manufacturing, operations, and customer teams.

Help define scalable engineering development mechanisms and technical review processes that improve execution quality and architectural consistency.

• 15-20+ years in systems architecture, infrastructure engineering, networking, Linux systems, distributed systems, or hyperscale infrastructure
• Deep expertise in:

• • networking systems
  • Linux systems and kernel architecture
  • low-level software and drivers
  • distributed infrastructure
  • systems engineering
  • datacenter infrastructure

• Strong understanding of modern datacenter infrastructure architectures spanning:

• • compute platforms
  • server systems
  • networking fabrics
  • storage infrastructure
  • telemetry and manageability
  • power and cooling
  • rack-scale systems

• Experience operating across hardware and software architecture domains
• Strong understanding of ODM/OEM infrastructure development environments
• Experience driving technical architecture and engineering execution across large cross-functional organizations
• Strong technical judgment with ability to assess architectures, specifications, engineering quality, and implementation approaches
• Widely respected technical credibility within engineering and infrastructure communities
• Excellent technical communication and mentoring capability
• Ability to operate effectively across both deep technical problem solving and broad architectural leadership

• Experience with hyperscaler or large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments
• Background in open-source infrastructure ecosystems
• Familiarity with infrastructure software stacks and large-scale orchestration environments
• Experience with rack-scale compute, storage, or networking infrastructure
• Understanding of manufacturing-scale infrastructure deployment and operationalization
• Experience with infrastructure telemetry, observability, and automation frameworks

• Help define next-generation datacenter infrastructure architectures
• Drive technical direction across compute, server, storage, networking, power, cooling, and infrastructure systems
• Influence platform, rack, and POD-scale infrastructure development
• Work directly with executive leadership, architects, engineering teams, customers, and ecosystem partners
• Shape the technical foundation of a rapidly evolving infrastructure organization

Compensation: $179K to $225K

@ HYVE Solutions, we believe employees are our greatest asset and we empower them to make a difference in our business. Diversity and inclusion make us all better. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.