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Enterprise Architect
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Llp · 🇺🇸 Century City; Dallas; Houston; Los Angeles; New York City; Orange County; Palo Alto; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 37 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 2 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 37 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 2 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision. Based in any U.S. office, the Enterprise Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and governing the firm’s target-state technology architecture across on-premises, cloud, data, and AI-enabled environments. This individual will modernize a mature Microsoft estate, mature the firm’s Azure and AWS footprints, establish architectural standards spanning networking, security, and data governance, and provide technical leadership for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence. The role partners closely with infrastructure, security, applications, data, records, knowledge management, and practice-technology teams to ensure that solutions are secure by design, cost-aware, operationally supportable, and aligned to the confidentiality, ethical, regulatory, and professional-responsibility expectations of a global law firm. This role reports to the Chief Information Officer. Responsibilities include: • Architecture & Governance: Coordinate enterprise architecture reference models, principles, and technology standards, and steward them through the Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) governance and gate process. • Microsoft Modernization: Modernize the legacy Microsoft estate: Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS/DHCP, Windows Server, file services, and on-premises Exchange – and drive migration and integration paths toward Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, and cloud-native services. • Cloud Architecture: Design and govern Azure and AWS landing zones, subscription/account structures, identity federation, private connectivity, and cost and tagging standards for a multi-cloud environment. • Networking & Firewall: Define reference designs for hybrid networking, segmentation, and firewall architecture – including site-to-site and cloud connectivity, VPN, micro-segmentation, and next-generation firewall policy standards. • Data Governance: Establish and maintain data governance and information-protection architecture, including data classification, sensitivity labeling, DLP, encryption/key management, and controls that support ethical walls, client-matter confidentiality, and Office of the General Counsel obligations. • Security by Design: Embed security-by-design across the estate in partnership with the security team – Zero Trust principles, Conditional Access, identity governance, logging/monitoring, and vulnerability-driven remediation planning. • Documentation & Roadmaps: Produce and maintain architecture artifacts – reference architecture, decision records, standards documents, and roadmaps – and present recommendations to IT leadership and firm stakeholders. • AI Strategy & Enablement: Advise on and help govern the responsible adoption of AI tooling and platforms, including Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI, vendor-integrated AI capabilities, and workflow automation opportunities that improve productivity while protecting firm and client data. • AI Governance & Risk Controls: Define architecture patterns, guardrails, and review criteria for AI solutions, including data residency, model and vendor risk, prompt and output handling, training-data exposure, access controls, auditability, retention, and human oversight appropriate for a legal environment. • Collaboration: Partner with infrastructure, applications, security, and practice-technology teams to ensure architectural alignment and to guide project-level solution design. Qualifications: • Excellent written and verbal