Senior Enterprise Architect

Capio Group•Sacramento, CA

3d•$130,000 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

Capio Group is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise architecture services and subject matter expertise. The role supports strategic planning and alignment of business strategy, processes, and information technology strategy, with a focus on governance, enterprise architecture strategy and management, business process design, and reengineering. Services are tailored to client project and initiative objectives. The architect establishes connections between project objectives and existing roadmaps, creates and maintains project-specific plans and roadmaps, and identifies enterprise or shared services needed to support initiatives. The role guides strategic vision and alignment across business strategy, project architecture, planned solutions, IT products, and shared services. It develops enterprise architecture models, assesses products and technologies, identifies process improvements, supports IT governance approvals, and collaborates with business programs, product managers, discovery teams, internal teams, and vendors. The architect also contributes to governance, architecture frameworks, guidelines, and standards, and uses client modeling tools and project management standards. The role provides architecture assurance by evaluating proposed solution architectures and project artifacts for alignment with the client’s enterprise architecture approach and standards. It documents findings in the enterprise architecture repository, ensures alignment with state and federal compliance requirements and architectural frameworks such as MITA, and promotes use of the repository and adherence to its processes. This is a full-time, remote employee position with a salary of $130,000–$140,000. Capio Group describes itself as a California-based IT consulting firm serving the public sector since 2010, offering a flexible workplace and work-life balance. The company states that diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to its values and mission.

Requirements

Within the last 10 years, at least 7 years of full-time-equivalent experience applying enterprise architecture principles, including at least 5 years in a lead capacity.
Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or engineering field; additional qualifying experience may substitute for education year for year.
Provide a copy of the diploma upon request. A degree not in English must include a translation performed by a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).
Within the last 10 years, at least 6 years of full-time-equivalent experience developing major components of an enterprise architecture plan, including strategic drivers, current and target architectures, roadmaps, and deliverables.
Within the last 10 years, at least 5 years of full-time-equivalent experience communicating project technologies that require governance approvals and explaining their impact on the enterprise.
At least 7 years of full-time-equivalent experience implementing and/or analyzing end-to-end solutions to ensure enterprise architecture standards and best practices are applied to project deliverables and the overall enterprise solution.
Provide client/user reference contact information for each applicable project meeting the requirements upon request in the qualification form, and submit completed reference forms when requested. Each form must be signed by the referenced individual, who must represent the company for which the project was developed and have served in a management or supervisory role.

Nice To Haves

At least 2 years of experience using Agile methodologies to deliver services and products aligned with project or business outcomes.
At least 2 years of experience developing strategic direction and architectural strategy and translating direction to system owners, data owners, and PMO teams.
At least 2 years of experience collecting and organizing information and creating roadmaps that support enterprise and IT governance processes.
At least 2 years of experience using Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) in architecture assurance.
At least 2 years of experience analyzing business functions and information workflows with data dependencies to support enterprise-level solution roadmaps.

Responsibilities

Connect project objectives with existing roadmaps and broader strategic objectives.
Create and maintain project- and initiative-specific plans, roadmaps, and other deliverables.
Identify and plan for enterprise or shared services needed to support project requirements and enterprise scalability.
Guide project strategic vision and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Align project architecture with business strategy, planned solutions, IT products, and enterprise shared services.
Create and contribute to enterprise architecture models reflecting business objectives and mapping supporting data and technology.
Collaborate with product discovery teams to understand emerging product needs.
Identify business process improvements and reengineering opportunities with stakeholders.
Evaluate integration of existing and new products, define their architectural roles, and identify requirements for potential enterprise or shared services.
Assess current and future technologies for project requirements and enterprise fit, and coordinate IT governance approvals.
Build working relationships with internal business programs and product managers.
Use project management tools and standards for communication and project management.
Use client modeling tools and standards to develop enterprise architecture artifacts.
Follow product delivery standards and practices, including applicable Agile methodologies, and provide strategic support to internal teams and vendor partners.
Contribute to enterprise and IT governance processes to align work with project objectives.
Develop and contribute to enterprise architecture frameworks, guidelines, and standards.
Evaluate and document proposed solution architectures and project architectural artifacts for alignment with client enterprise architecture approaches and standards.
Record architecture assurance findings in the enterprise architecture repository.
Ensure project architecture aligns with state and federal compliance requirements and architectural frameworks, including MITA.
Ensure project architectural artifacts follow enterprise architecture repository standards and processes.
Facilitate project team communication about and use of the enterprise architecture repository.