Description

Role Responsibilities

• Help shape and maintain solution architecture guidance across applications, integration, data, security, reporting, analytics, cloud, and operational components.
• Translate business outcomes and user needs into practical technical architectural options, technical guidance, and implementation decisions.
• Ensure that technical solution architectures are aligned with the desired experience and business vision and architecture, enable constituent/agency objectives and outcomes, and are performant, scalable, and extensible/flexible.
• Collaborate with experience architects and product managers to formulate and adapt technical strategies, architectures, and roadmaps to support iterative, agile, people centered product development.
• Review vendor solution architecture, technical design, development, and migration deliverables for alignment with the product/project strategies, roadmap, and outcomes, standards, security requirements, accessibility expectations, and implementation feasibility.
• Partner with IT, product, experience design, business, data, security, accessibility, legal, and vendor teams to resolve technical design decisions and ensure the solution remains aligned with the long-term vision, standards, and best practices.
• Advice on the balance of configurable product capabilities, custom development, integration services, data architecture, and modular platform components needed to deliver the EPIC vision.
• Collaborate hands on as needed with internal teams and vendors to solve technical challenges including working on technical prototypes and proofs of concepts.
• Support phased-release planning by identifying dependencies, technical constraints, architectural risks, transition needs, and opportunities for incremental value delivery.
• Guide integration planning with legacy systems, the Commonwealth's accounting and financial systems, vendor sales reporting systems, identity/access management, reporting platforms, and other relevant systems.
• Support legacy-system migration planning, including data mapping, data cleansing, data transformation, document migration, cutover planning, and validation approaches.
• Promote consistent documentation, architecture decision records, peer review, quality practices, automated testing, security-by-design, and maintainable solution patterns.
• Evaluate AI-enabled, automation, analytics, and development capabilities approved through project governance, privacy, security, accessibility, and applicable legal review.
• Help the project team understand technical tradeoffs, communicate architecture decisions clearly, and make choices that support long-term flexibility, maintainability, and value.
   

Minimum Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience in IT delivery, systems implementation, software engineering, enterprise technology, or technology architecture.
• Five or more years as a technical solution architect, enterprise architect, technical lead, engineering lead, or similar role on complex enterprise systems.
• Five or more years’ experience working with cross-functional product teams applying an iterative, agile, people-centered product design and development approach.
• Experience translating business goals, user needs, and policy or operational requirements into practical architecture and technical guidance.
• Experience with cloud-based enterprise applications, modern integration approaches, APIs, data migration, security controls, accessibility considerations, and phased implementation.
• Experience reviewing vendor technical designs, development approaches, and implementation deliverables for feasibility, quality, security, maintainability, and alignment with business outcomes.
• Experience using or evaluating generative AI or AI-assisted tools to support requirements analysis, design review, documentation, development practices, testing, code review, data migration, or technical quality assurance.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work across business and technical teams, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and build alignment in a complex project environment.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with public-sector, procurement, ERP, financial, grants, licensing, permitting, benefits, or other workflow-heavy enterprise platforms.
• Experience helping organizations modernize from legacy systems to cloud-based or modular platforms.
• Experience with data mapping, data cleansing, data governance, reporting, analytics, and migration to modern platforms.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST, security requirements, privacy controls, accessibility, records retention, and public-sector governance.
• Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery models, phased rollouts, test strategy, automated testing, performance testing, operational readiness, and transition planning.
• Experience evaluating AI-enabled capabilities, automation, analytics, reporting, search, or decision-support features in a governed enterprise environment.
• Experience designing or guiding systems that must serve multiple user communities, including internal operators, external business users, oversight users, and the public.
• Ability to challenge conventional approaches constructively and identify opportunities to build a more flexible, intuitive, and sustainable solution

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate