Description

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the transition strategy from the FACS mainframe system (COBOL, IDMS) to a custom Azure Cloud-based solution.
• Support architecture planning across user experience, authoring, information, application, mobility, analytics, and other capabilities within an Azure tenant.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, the Product Architect, and Business Analysts to understand and document current-state and future-state business drivers, capabilities, and processes.
• Define and communicate technology possibilities, architectural options, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Evaluate technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to deliver business value and meet project objectives.
• Develop and extend the Architecture Runway to support delivery milestones and the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) release.
• Drive technology maturity, readiness, and alignment with IT investments.
• Collaborate with application, platform, and service owners, Vendor Management, Regulatory, Security, Compliance, and State and Federal partners.
• Work with IT leaders to define approaches to data integration, infrastructure, technical debt, and operational readiness.
• Introduce reusable design components and architectural patterns and recommend their appropriate application.
• Create and maintain standardized solution architecture artifacts to support collaboration, analysis, and decision-making.
• Document architecture decisions and contribute to strategies, policies, standards, and guidelines aligned with business objectives and enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and Security Architects on product roadmaps, data models, and security reference architecture.
• Lead and present during Architecture Review Board checkpoints.
• Provide architectural guidance and consultation for proof-of-concept initiatives.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Proven strategic planning experience supporting large, complex enterprise systems.
• Experience working across multiple technologies, platforms, and processing environments, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Ability to identify complex technical and business problems and develop architectural strategies that address current and future requirements.
• Demonstrated architectural experience across multiple technical disciplines, including storage, networking, compute, voice, video, artificial intelligence, and application development.
• Ability to translate business needs and future-state capabilities into solution architecture requirements.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience building core platforms using common architectural patterns and reusable components to support a broad range of customer-facing solutions.
• Experience with industry-standard modeling languages and notations, such as ArchiMate and BPMN 2.0.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools, such as Bizzdesign, for solution architecture modeling.
• Experience using Lucidchart or similar tools to collaboratively diagram, visualize, and communicate complex information.
• Experience delivering solutions in iterative Agile product environments.
• Working knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Demonstrated ability to build trust, encourage innovation, and mentor team members.

Core Technical Skills

• Solution Architecture and Enterprise Architecture
• Azure Cloud Architecture and Application Modernization
• Legacy Mainframe Modernization (COBOL, IDMS)
• Architecture Roadmaps and Architecture Runway
• TOGAF-Based Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
• Systems Integration and Data Sharing
• Reusable Architecture Patterns and Design Components
• ArchiMate and BPMN 2.0
• Bizzdesign and Lucidchart
• Agile Product Delivery and SAFe
• Architecture Governance and Review Boards
• Technical Documentation and Stakeholder Collaboration

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree