Key Skills:
Solution Architecture and Design ( Including Enterprise Architecture
Experience).
Architectural Design & Documentation
System Dependency Analysis and Estimation
Technical Leadership and Innovation
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
Application Security and Compliance
Job Description
This contractor position will support our Project Lifecycle Management
process as a key architect.
The role will involve attending discovery sessions to understand
project requirements, collaborating with stakeholders (Project
Management Office, Solution Engineers, other architects, and SMEs) to
document architectural diagrams, and ensuring compliance with OIT's
technical standards and service offerings.
Key Responsibilities include:
Translating business requirements into architectural artifacts.
Analyzing system dependencies and estimating level of effort.
Assisting with solution selection and discovery sessions.
Leading iterative technical design workshops to finalize the
architectural plan and LOE.
Required Skills:
- Bring best in class technologies, innovation, and creativity
to the table in developing technical solutions to solve complex
multi-dimensional problems.
- Perform a wide range of highly technical and advisory duties
associated with the design, implementation and support of OIT
Applications solutions.
- Provide technology leadership by architecting, prototyping,
researching, recommending, documenting, and assisting in implementing
and evaluating technical solutions for business issues whether
purchased or developed.
- Interpret business, technical, regulatory, and architectural
requirements in researching and recommending solutions.
- Review the accuracy of the release notes and technical
documentation through collaboration with the applications development
areas.
- Coordinate and monitor OIT technologies for capacity
planning, data modeling, integration planning and availability
measurement.
- Work with the CISO staff to implement appropriate application
security controls across all applications development areas.
- Work with CTO staff to establish standards and disciplined
techniques for technical activities like creating new code,
restructuring existing code, and maintaining version control and
security.
- Develop estimates of the teamwork effort needed to deliver
application solutions based on the project specifications provided;
report progress to management and project managers as requested.
- Interface with vendor technology/solutions, as well as
appropriate involvement of OIT architecture, throughout the entire
project lifecycle.
- Have ongoing interaction with key stakeholders to advise and
ensure that timely, innovative, and appropriate infrastructure and
services support agency strategies, projects and outcomes to align
with OIT roadmaps, desired future states and overall architectural
fit.
- Assign team members to projects and initiatives based on
skill set and experience required.
- Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.