Enterprise Architect (Infrastructure & Platform Domain)
About The Position
The Enterprise Architect (EA) plays a critical role in shaping the future of technology services for Maricopa County. This position offers the opportunity to help modernize and standardize enterprise platforms, influence strategic technology decisions, and build the foundational architecture that enables secure, reliable, and innovative services across the County. As part of the Enterprise Architecture practice, the EA will serve as the primary architecture lead for the Compute, Hosting, and Platform Services domain while collaborating across all enterprise architecture service areas. This role combines strategic planning, technical architecture, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure technology solutions align with business capabilities, operational needs, and long-term County priorities. The Enterprise Architect will work closely with Business Engagement Managers, infrastructure and operations teams, cybersecurity, portfolio management, application teams, and executive leadership to define architecture standards, guide modernization initiatives, improve service lifecycle management, and strengthen dependency and service mapping across the enterprise. This is an exciting opportunity for a technology leader who enjoys solving complex enterprise challenges, influencing organizational direction, and building scalable architecture practices that drive measurable business value. The role offers visibility across the organization and the ability to directly impact resiliency, security, financial transparency, operational efficiency, and the delivery of critical public services that support County departments and residents.
Requirements
- Seven years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise infrastructure, systems engineering, cloud architecture, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture; with five years in at least three of the following: Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure and hosting platforms, Identity and access management, Networking and connectivity, Enterprise applications, System integration, Disaster recovery and resiliency, IT service management
- Experience developing or contributing to architectural standards, reference architectures, governance processes, or enterprise technology roadmaps
- Experience in communicating technical concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related fields
- A combination of post-secondary education and/or job-related experience may substitute for the minimum qualifications on a year-for-year basis.
Nice To Haves
- TOGAF
- Azure Architect
- AWS Architect
- VMware
- ITIL
- CISSP
Responsibilities
- Align enterprise technology architecture with business capabilities, departmental roadmaps, and County strategic priorities through current-state and future-state planning activities.
- Serve as the primary architecture owner for compute hosting and platform services, including cloud, hybrid infrastructure, resiliency, and platform standards.
- Develop, maintain, and govern enterprise architecture standard, reference architecture, service definitions, and reusable technology patterns.
- Participate in architecture governance activities, including solution reviews, standards validation, risk identification, and design guidance to ensure alignment with enterprise direction.
- Create and collaborate with architects, technical teams across identity, networking, integration, applications, resiliency, and security domains to ensure interoperability and dependency alignment.
- Develop and maintain service to system mappings, dependency models, and architecture documentation supporting operational resiliency, change management, and impact analysis.
- Contribute to enterprise technology roadmaps, modernization strategies platform lifecycle planning, and capacity planning initiatives.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical analysis supporting technology investment decisions, portfolio alignment, service costing, and total cost of ownership evaluations.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and maturity of the Enterprise Architecture practice, including process improvement, governance refinement, and architecture documentation standards.
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Exceptional work-life balance, with hybrid and alternative work schedule options
- Opportunities for growth and development within Maricopa County
- Low-cost, high-value healthcare for you and your qualifying dependents
- Child care benefits, including access to our on-site center, Maricopa County Kids Club, dedicated to serving Maricopa County families
- Paid vacation, sick time, and parental leave
- Extensive wellness program, including an incentive
- Enrollment in the Arizona State Retirement System, a defined retirement benefit requiring a 12% monthly contribution rate that includes a 100% employer match on Day 1
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
