Enterprise Solution/Technical Architect

State of North Carolina

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Solution/Technical Architect is responsible for providing technical design guidance for application solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, and security. In this role, you will develop architecture frameworks and guide development and project teams in solution design. You will also drive seamless integration, evaluate emerging technologies, and solve complex technical challenges to support long-term IT sustainability. This position provides direction across all architecture domains to support current and future IT operations, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and departmental regulations, as well as adherence to defined architecture principles, standards, and models.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution and six years of progressive experience in all areas of information technology architectural components, interfaces and their applications or related work OR Bachelor’s degree in business administration or closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution and seven years of progressive experience in all areas of information technology architectural components, interfaces and their applications or related work OR An equivalent combination of education and experience

Nice To Haves

• Provide technical leadership for one or more of the following domains: Business Architecture, Application/Software Architecture, Database Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture and Security Architecture.
• Participates in the RFP process and vendor evaluation.
• Hands-on experience to build MVP (Minimal Viable Product) technology solutions in the cloud.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business ecosystems, cloud computing architectures, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Experience working with Microservices, containerization, immutable infrastructure and migrating existing workloads to the cloud.
• Knowledge of solution designs and implementation experience to meet architecture quality standards.

Responsibilities

• providing technical design guidance for application solutions
• ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, and security
• develop architecture frameworks
• guide development and project teams in solution design
• drive seamless integration
• evaluate emerging technologies
• solve complex technical challenges to support long-term IT sustainability
• provides direction across all architecture domains to support current and future IT operations
• ensuring compliance with federal, state, and departmental regulations
• adherence to defined architecture principles, standards, and models

Benefits

• Employees can participate in health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, and the NCFlex program (numerous high-quality, low-cost benefits on a pre-tax basis).
• Employees also receive paid vacation, sick, and community service leave.
• In addition, paid parental leave is available to eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level