Infrastructure Architect

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

Working@AIS

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Infrastructure Architect.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Architects scalable, resilient solutions; authors roadmaps and blueprints; integrates diverse components; advances automation (PowerShell/Python/Ansible) and governance/policy.
• Work & Complexity: Leads architectural initiatives, establishes performance benchmarks, integrates systems at scale, researches emerging tech, and mitigates enterprise risk.
• Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity, scalability, and cost/performance optimization; produces comprehensive design artifacts; sets and enforces standards with broad autonomy.
• Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds strategic partnerships, institutionalizes knowledge management, and communicates designs and executive‑ready reports.
• Consulting & Engagement: Delivers architectural consulting aligned to business strategy, proposes enterprise technologies, nurtures vendor alliances, and seeds new project opportunities.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a MS Teams Rooms AV/VTC Solution Architect.

Project Summary

AIS is seeking an experienced Microsoft Teams Rooms AV/VTC Solution Architect to lead the architecture, standardization, and enterprise design of conference room collaboration solutions built on Microsoft Teams Rooms. This role is responsible for defining the hardware footprints, technical standards, and reference architectures for a range of conference room AV configurations, ensuring solutions are scalable, supportable, secure, and aligned to business and user experience requirements. The Architect will serve as the senior technical authority for room-based collaboration design, guiding hardware selection, integration patterns, deployment standards, and operational readiness for Microsoft Teams Rooms implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and technical design of Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions across executive conference rooms, huddle rooms, medium and large meeting rooms, training rooms, divisible spaces, boardrooms, and specialty collaboration environments.
• Define enterprise standards for room types, hardware footprints, peripheral selections, integration patterns, and support models for Microsoft Teams Rooms.
• Develop scalable reference architectures for AV/VTC-enabled conference spaces, including displays, cameras, microphones, speakers, DSPs, room controllers, compute platforms, switching, control interfaces, structured cabling, and supporting infrastructure.
• Evaluate and recommend Microsoft Teams Rooms-certified and compatible AV/VTC hardware platforms based on room size, user experience objectives, interoperability, lifecycle, cost, supportability, and enterprise constraints.
• Establish design principles and decision frameworks for room acoustics, microphone pickup, speaker coverage, display sightlines, camera framing, content sharing, and participant experience.
• Architect the end-to-end Microsoft Teams Rooms ecosystem, including room device configuration, Microsoft 365 integration, Teams administration, identity dependencies, management tooling, monitoring, and operational support considerations.
• Provide technical leadership for implementation and deployment efforts, ensuring room designs can be consistently executed across multiple sites and installation teams.
• Review floor plans, architectural drawings, equipment layouts, signal flow diagrams, and bills of material to validate room solutions before deployment.
• Develop and maintain architecture documents, room design standards, engineering diagrams, implementation patterns, support models, and governance artifacts.
• Serve as the escalation point and subject matter expert for complex AV/VTC and Teams Rooms design challenges, interoperability issues, and deployment blockers.

Required For This Opportunity

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Telecommunications, Audiovisual Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in AV, VTC, unified communications, collaboration engineering, or related technical architecture roles.
• 3+ years of direct experience architecting and deploying Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions in enterprise environments.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise AV system design, including acoustics, DSP concepts, microphone and speaker design, signal flow, room control, switching, display systems, and user experience optimization.
• Deep knowledge of VTC concepts and room-based conferencing design, including camera coverage, media quality, interoperability considerations, and conferencing workflows.
• Demonstrated experience defining hardware standards and room technology footprints for multiple conference room types and use cases.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Teams Rooms design, configuration, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Experience developing architectural standards, reference designs, engineering documentation, and implementation guidance for enterprise collaboration platforms.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure dependencies such as structured cabling, PoE, switching, network readiness, QoS, and endpoint connectivity.

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience leading large-scale Microsoft Teams Rooms programs across multiple offices, campuses, or enterprise facilities.
• Familiarity with Teams Admin Center, Teams Rooms Pro management, device telemetry, monitoring, and operational governance.
• Experience with major AV/VTC vendors and ecosystems such as Logitech, Poly, Crestron, Extron, Shure, Biamp, Yealink, Neat, Cisco, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience operating in highly regulated, security-conscious, or mission-critical environments where room solutions require strong documentation, standardization, and controlled change practices.
• Understanding of facilities coordination, construction fit-out considerations, low-voltage design, and installation vendor management.
• Microsoft, AVIXA, CTS, CTS-D, or related collaboration/AV certifications are preferred.

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $138,000-$209,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

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