IT Enterprise Architect

Requirements:

• At least 10 years of progressively responsible IT experience, including 5 or more years in enterprise, solution, cloud, application, infrastructure, data, integration architecture, or related technology leadership with enterprise-level responsibilities.
• Practical experience engineering, administering, implementing, or supporting enterprise technical services and applying that experience to architecture decisions, standards, support models, and implementation guidance.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and related cloud, identity, collaboration, security, management, and productivity capabilities.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise integration architecture, including APIs, middleware, ETL, event-driven integration, and data exchange patterns.
• Experience evaluating cloud, infrastructure, SaaS, application, integration, data platform, identity, and operational support solutions.
• Experience facilitating architecture governance, standards, solution reviews, roadmaps, decision records, exception processes, or architecture documentation.
• Ability to develop and communicate architecture diagrams, recommendations, standards, risks, dependencies, options, and technology tradeoffs.
• Ability to evaluate designs, identify enterprise impacts, and guide domain specialists toward secure, supportable, and sustainable decisions.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder coordination skills across technical, business, vendor, and executive audiences.
• Preferred: Experience in state government, the public sector, or another regulated environment.
• Preferred: Familiarity with NIST SP 800-53, FIPS 199, CJIS, SSA, GTA, privacy, records management, or comparable security and compliance expectations.
• Preferred: Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Salesforce, ServiceNow, enterprise integrations, identity governance, SIEM/SOAR, AI-enabled platforms, DevSecOps, or comparable enterprise capabilities.
• Preferred: Experience with technology portfolio rationalization, lifecycle planning, technical debt management, total cost of ownership analysis, or vendor technology assessments.
• Preferred: Experience supporting architecture review committees, technology governance boards, project governance, procurement reviews, or enterprise technology planning.
• TOGAF, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, cloud, security, or comparable architecture certifications are helpful but not required.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mature our Enterprise Architecture Program, including governance, standards, review practices, templates, decision records, reference architectures, roadmaps, and repository.
• Partner with agency leaders and business owners to translate strategy, capabilities, service needs, and program objectives into current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.
• Establish practical architecture checkpoints across project intake, procurement, vendor and security reviews, solution design, change governance, and transition to operations.
• Lead architecture reviews for major projects, procurements, cloud services, SaaS platforms, applications, integrations, infrastructure changes, data platforms, AI solutions, and modernization efforts.
• Document architecture decisions, conditions, exceptions, accountable owners, remediation actions, and recommendations for escalation to appropriate governance authorities.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, design patterns, reference architectures, review criteria, roadmaps, and reusable decision frameworks.
• Provide guidance across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure, Microsoft 365, identity, data, endpoint, collaboration, security, and AI capabilities.
• Assess proposed technologies for business alignment, security, privacy, accessibility, operational supportability, resiliency, integration, scalability, interoperability, cost, and sustainability.
• Evaluate total cost of ownership, licensing, vendor concentration, exit considerations, duplicated capabilities, support models, and lifecycle costs.
• Track technical debt, unsupported technologies, duplicated capabilities, architecture exceptions, lifecycle concerns, vendor dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, consolidate, rationalize, modernize, replace, or retire enterprise technologies.
• Set practical architecture guardrails for AI solutions, Copilot, and agentic automation, covering data use, human oversight, identity and access, logging, testing, monitoring, exceptions, operational ownership, and records management.
• Promote secure application delivery and appropriate DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, release governance, testing, rollback, monitoring, and operational handoff.
• Collaborate with Information Security, IT Operations, Application Development, Data and Analytics, PMO, Procurement, Legal, Privacy, vendors, business owners, and executive leadership.
• Communicate recommendations, risks, dependencies, options, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Improve architecture review and documentation through practical, repeatable, transparent, and measurable processes.
• Assess architecture capabilities, priority risks, and maturity gaps during the first 90 days; build stakeholder relationships, inventory existing artifacts, and recommend an operating model and maturity plan.
• Within 6 months, implement repeatable intake, review, decision-record, and exception processes; publish priority standards and patterns; track technology risks; and integrate architecture checkpoints into significant initiatives.
• Within 12 months, deliver roadmaps for agreed priority domains, establish consistent architecture participation in major initiatives and procurements, identify modernization and cost-management opportunities, and provide an Enterprise Architecture scorecard.
• Guide and coordinate domain specialists while leaving detailed engineering, implementation, administration, and ongoing operations to domain teams and system owners; document and escalate recommendations when formal approval is needed.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Copilot
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• ETL
• Fabric
• Support
• Microsoft 365
• Power BI
• Salesforce
• Security
• ServiceNow
• TOGAF
• Office 365

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We are hiring an IT Enterprise Architect reporting to our Chief Information Officer to help turn agency strategy, business priorities, and service needs into practical technology roadmaps, standards, architecture decisions, and modernization recommendations across cloud, applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, enterprise platforms, and AI. The role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leaders, business owners, project teams, technical leaders, governance bodies, and vendors, working closely with IT leadership and the Director of Information Security. Our focus is enterprise alignment, governance, solution review, lifecycle planning, risk reduction, and long-term sustainability. The architect provides enterprise-wide leadership and recommendations rather than owning the day-to-day operation of every system or platform.

last updated 43 week of 2026