Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Multiyear contract - must work on site

Job Location: Tallahassee, FL (On-Site Required)

Job Duration: Contract through June + annual extensions (Multi-year contract)

Job Overview: Enterprise Architect for major modernization project. Will be moving applications from Mainframe to the cloud.

Job Responsibilities:

• Creating the technical architecture documents of all the interacting applications in the current integrated solution, depicting applications, interfaces, and information flow currently in place.
• Documenting the current architectural standards followed by the mainframe, web, and mobile solutions currently in place.
• Creating optimized, flexible, and sustainable standard operating environment documents for various types of applications (web-based, mobile, etc.) and infrastructure components (compute resources, connectivity components) to minimize the spread of tools and environments.
• Creating the architectural standards for the technologies to be used in the to-be solution for infrastructure and security requirement compliance.
• Creating the technical architecture documents for the interacting applications in the to-be integrated solution, depicting the Department's applications, modernized legacy system from a vendor, interfaces, and information flow.
• Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management, and change control. Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall business strategy.
• Evaluating internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes and suggesting improvements to optimize business workflows.
• Creating business architecture models to reflect the strategies and goals and creating and implementing the business units’ visions and goals.
• Be involved in every stage of discovery, development, and implementation of an optimal architecture for the modernized legacy system.
• Validating and verifying compliance of vendor solution.
• Evaluating systems to ensure an overall robustness and determine if there are any discrepancies and vulnerabilities.
• Review, create and maintain concurrency of architecture documents ensuring matching with the system implemented.
• Oversee, review, and ensure that the Vendor’s solution design is in compliance with the standard operating environments considering all facets of IT infrastructure.
• Setting the direction and approach for integrating information applications and programs.
• Cataloging, developing, coordinating, communicating, and maintaining the architectural models and relevant documentation.
• Enforcing the overall enterprise architecture models, representations, capabilities, and components to meet the Department’s business and technology activities.
• Evaluating the vendor’s solutions to reduce the total cost of ownership of the new system considering development and operational costs in IT and the business units.
• Identifying needs and organizing training for existing legacy system staff to improve staff’s knowledge and skills required to manage the modernized system.
• Providing business architecture and systems processing guidance. Ensuring the efficiency, security, and support of the Department’s goals.
• Work closely with the Information Security Manager to ensure all security requirements are met or exceeded.

Job Requirements:

• Enterprise Architect on very large modernization projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Broad technical experience (Mainframe to Cloud).
• 10+ years technical experience