IT Enterprise Architect Sr, ATS, I&O

City of Austin

20h•Remote

About The Position

The IT Enterprise Architect Sr provides strategic leadership and technical expertise to develop, maintain, and govern the City’s enterprise architecture. This position ensures that technology solutions align with organizational goals, industry standards, and enterprise-wide strategies. It is responsible for assessing current systems, defining future-state architectures, guiding technology investments, and ensuring that technology platforms are scalable, secure, and cost-effective. The employee will work closely with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and stakeholders across departments to translate business needs into enterprise-level architectural solutions.

Requirements

Knowledge of applicable Federal, State and Local laws, ordinances, and policies.
Knowledge of enterprise architecture practices and principles.
Knowledge of architecture methodologies (e.g., SABSA, Zachman, TOGAF) and modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate).
Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes.
Knowledge of financial analysis and architectural language models.
Knowledge of basic graphical modeling approaches.
Skill in developing IT strategies.
Skill in planning, organizing, and managing workload.
Skill in facilitating collaboration with customers.
Skill in analyzing complex business and IT systems and data.
Skill in effectively consulting and negotiating multiple projects.
Skill in communicating clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
Ability to translate business needs into enterprise architect requirements.
Ability to collect and analyze user IT needs.
Ability to understand, advocate, and support business and IT strategies.
Ability to estimate the financial impact of enterprise architect alternatives.
Ability to develop reports, presentations, schedules, and other relevant materials.
Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines and objectives.
Ability to apply multiple solutions to business problems.
Ability to facilitate work in a team environment with diverse skill sets.
Ability to lead and mentor less-experienced architects.
Ability to build and maintain professional partnerships at all staffing levels.
Ability to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.
Ability to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.
Graduation with a Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in Information/Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or related field, plus six (6) years of experience in an architecture-related field, including two (2) years in a lead or supervisory capacity.
Experience may substitute for education up to four (4) years.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated expertise leading enterprise‑level architecture in one or more domains such as data architecture, cloud strategy, security architecture, or application modernization, with a proven ability to design and govern complex, integrated technology environments.
Hands‑on experience developing architectural standards, roadmaps, and reference architectures aligned to organizational strategy, with strong ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and departments.

Responsibilities

Implement enterprise architecture practices and principles.
Leads and coordinates the pursuit of technical business information needs, governing principles, and solution architecture viewpoints.
Works with business partners and IT to develop strategic technology roadmaps.
Develops and oversees architecture implementation including documentation of an enterprise architecture framework.
Leads enterprise architecture team to identify and analyze business needs for future innovative technology, develops solution architecture requirements, and determines potential impact of technology solution.
Ensures governance structure and compliance activities are in place to allow multi-stakeholder participation and agreement in finding solutions.
Analyzes current business and IT environments and recommends solutions for improvement.
Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide solution decision-making.
Socializes the enterprise architecture practice within the department through collaboration, communication, and training across all business units.
Develops long term partnerships with department business units and vendors to facilitate collaboration in the development strategic business plans.
Responsible for the full range of supervisory activities including selection, training, evaluation, counseling, and recommendation for dismissal.