IT Architect - Integrations
About The Position
The IT Architect designs, plans, and governs technical solutions that enable secure, reliable, and efficient City operations across enterprise applications, data/analytics, infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, information security, and end-user technologies. The role partners with IT teams and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable architecture, standards, roadmaps, and reusable patterns; leads or advises delivery teams during implementation; and documents solutions to ensure maintainability, compliance, and long-term value. Work is performed under general direction with latitude for initiative and independent judgment. Integration Architect Focus: This position will serve as a hands-on technical architect for the City’s enterprise integration environment, with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps as a primary integration platform. The role will design and build integrations between major enterprise, financial, HR, utility, public safety, asset management, and customer service systems. The position will work closely with City departments, application teams, subject-matter experts, and technology vendors to understand business processes and translate them into reliable, maintainable integrations. The City’s integration environment includes Workday and other SaaS, vendor-hosted, and on-premises business and operational systems. Integration patterns include APIs, web services, secure file exchanges, data transformations, event-driven workflows, and other system-to-system interfaces.
Requirements
- Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR four (4) additional years of directly related experience in lieu of a degree.
- Seven (7)+ years of progressive IT experience with at least three (3) years in architecture, design, or senior engineering roles; Senior IT Architect typically ten (10)+ years with broad, multi-domain experience.
- A Master’s degree may substitute for up to two (2) years of experience
- Knowledge of: Enterprise platforms and practices across one or more domains: networks (LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, load balancers), cloud services (e.g., Microsoft Azure), virtualization, operating systems, identity and access, databases and data platforms, integration technologies, observability/monitoring, IT service management, DevOps/IaC, and security architecture.
- Knowledge of: Data/analytics concepts: data modeling (conceptual/logical/physical), data warehousing/lakes, ETL/ELT, data quality, metadata management, BI/reporting, and pipeline design.
- Knowledge of: Compliance and security standards and practices relevant to municipal operations (e.g., CJIS, HIPAA, PCI),
- Skills in: Translating business requirements into secure, scalable technical designs and actionable implementation plans.
- Skills in: Building well-designed, documented systems (applications, networks, data stores, pipelines) that improve decision-making and operational outcomes.
- Skills in: Scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python) to improve productivity and reliability.
- Skills in: Leading technical reviews, guiding teams, communicating with non-technical audiences, and collaborating across departments and vendors.
- Skills in: Troubleshooting complex issues, conducting root-cause analysis, and implementing preventive improvements.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise application integrations, including integrations between SaaS, vendor-hosted, on-premises, and operational systems.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps or comparable enterprise integration/middleware platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, BizTalk, or similar technologies. Direct Azure Logic Apps experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs, SOAP web services, webhooks, messaging, secure file transfers, and other system-to-system integration methods.
- Experience with data mapping, transformation, orchestration, workflow design, authentication, error handling, and integration security.
- Experience integrating ERP, HRIS, financial, utility, asset management, public safety, customer service, or other enterprise line-of-business systems. Experience with Workday integrations is highly desirable.
- Experience designing integrations involving Microsoft Azure services and cloud-based application architectures.
- Experience supporting production integrations, including monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, exception handling, and recovery of failed transactions or data exchanges.
- Ability to evaluate business processes and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable integration designs.
- Demonstrated ability to work directly with business departments, application owners, subject-matter experts, technical teams, and external vendors to define requirements and deliver integrations from design through production support.
- Ability to develop and maintain integration architecture, interface specifications, data-flow diagrams, technical documentation, and support procedures.
- Experience establishing or applying integration architecture standards, reusable patterns, API conventions, security practices, and development standards across an enterprise environment.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to understand end-to-end business processes and data flows across multiple systems.
Responsibilities
- Partner with stakeholders to elicit and refine business and technical requirements; convert them into target architecture, solution designs, and implementation plans.
- Define, maintain, and advocate technology standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns (security, integration, data, networking, cloud, observability, automation).
- Produce architecture deliverables (diagrams, logical/physical models, interface contracts, data maps, migration plans, runbooks) and keep them current.
- Guide solution delivery across the lifecycle: design reviews, configuration, integration, testing, change control, and readiness for operations; support post-go-live stabilization.
- Embed security-by-design practices (identity, least privilege, encryption, hardening, monitoring) and ensure alignment with applicable compliance frameworks (e.g., CJIS, HIPAA, PCI).
- Engineer for reliability, performance, capacity, and cost efficiency; leverage automation/IaC, scripting, and orchestration to reduce toil and improve consistency.
- Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including backup, restore, failover, and resilience testing.
- Evaluate and select products/services; manage technical aspects of vendor engagements and validate changes by contractors and service providers.
- Mentor peers and provide technical leadership within and across teams; share knowledge through documentation, training, and communities of practice.
- Create and/or oversee data flows, pipelines, and storage designs as needed to support analytics, reporting, integration, and operational use cases.
- Participate in incident response for complex issues; drive root-cause analysis and continuous improvement of standards and architectures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Regular-Full time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
