General Experience Expectations: A minimum of seven (7) years of IT work experience in multiple IT areas and two (2) to three (3) years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture experience in one or more specialty areas
Scope of Work/Job Characteristics
The Enterprise Architect will serve as the principal line of communication for the project team. The
duties and responsibilities of this position are as follows:
• Serve as the technical liaison between Department business users and contracted service vendors;
• Provide hands-on leadership for the design of re-engineered processes;
• Provide periodic reports to internal and external stakeholders on the compliance of new solutions
and processes in relation to enterprise architecture standards;
• Maintain all technical architectural artifacts in a shared repository with version history;
• Participate in business requirements gathering sessions;
• Lead the development of business process improvements with recommendations for enterprise
architecture standards;
• Work independently as part of a larger cross-functional team;
• Gain a detailed understanding of the Technology Restoration project scope directly after
onboarding;
• Work closely with the Project Management Office (PMO) Program Manager and vendors
associated with the project;
• Create the technical architecture documents of all the interacting applications in the current
integrated solutions, depicting applications, interfaces, and information flow currently in place;
• Document the current architectural standards followed by the mainframe, web, and mobile solutions
currently in place;
• Create the architectural standards for the technologies to be used in the to-be solutions for the
Department's infrastructure and security requirement compliance;
• Enforce the Department's enterprise architecture models, representations, capabilities, and
components to meet the business and technology activities; and
• Validate if the proposed technical solutions meet the Department's requirements
Required Qualifications
A bachelor's degree or master's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science,
Information Systems, or other related field, or four (4) years of equivalent work experience is required.
Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis when applicable.
The Department requires the following experience, skills, and knowledge for this position:
• Five (5) years of experience participating in the architecting of complex IT systems;
• Five (5) years of experience with technical design using analytical skills;
• Five (5) years of experience on technical teams in large-scale projects with components of
infrastructure improvements and software development;
• Five (5) years of experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC);
• Five (5) years of experience in building integrations between applications on different hardware
platforms;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills;
• Strong leadership and motivational skills; and
• Experience in modeling and graphical representations.
Preferred Qualifications
The Department prefers the Candidates to have the following experience, skills, and/or knowledge for
this position:
• Experience in modernizing and migrating mainframe applications from legacy systems;
• Experience in architecting optimal solutions for migrating applications to the cloud, preferably
Azure or Amazon Web Services;
• Experience in containerization of applications; and
• Building application integrations using Application Programming Interfaces