IT Senior System Administration

State of Washington • Thurston County – Olympia, WA

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About The Position

The Office of Financial Management (OFM) is seeking a Senior System Administrator to provide advanced technical administration and operational support for OFM’s enterprise data and integration platforms. This role is crucial for maintaining the technology infrastructure that connects critical statewide enterprise applications and makes financial and business data accessible. The Senior System Administrator will administer, manage, and maintain integration and reporting platforms such as Informatica (on-premises and cloud), BusinessObjects, Power BI, and Microsoft Analysis Services, ensuring their availability, performance, security, and reliability. The position involves coordinating the development, configuration, and deployment of integration platforms across multiple environments, exercising technical judgment in production control and platform management, and troubleshooting complex system issues. This role supports enterprise data technology initiatives and collaborates with the OFM Enterprise Data Management team and statewide partners to establish and promote effective technology standards and practices. Success requires strong systems administration and troubleshooting skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to manage complex enterprise platforms in a collaborative, mission-critical environment.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience administering, configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and supporting enterprise integration platforms, middleware, messaging, ETL, and related technologies in a complex, multi-system enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to install, configure, monitor, troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain enterprise server and integration environments, including performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery, environment management, and ensuring system availability in accordance with established service level agreements (SLAs).
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical issues, perform root cause analysis, assess operational risk and system impacts, coordinate cross-functional incident response, and implement effective solutions for critical enterprise production systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise security principles, access controls, change management, configuration management, and compliance with applicable federal, state, agency, and enterprise technology standards, policies, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, technical specifications, and implementation plans that support secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise integration solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, communicate complex technical concepts and risks effectively, collaborate with infrastructure, application, network, database, security, vendor, and business partners, and successfully manage multiple competing priorities in a mission-critical enterprise environment.
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to meet the needs of others.

Nice To Haves

• Skills and experience in WA state enterprise systems and platform support for integration technologies and methods.
• Experience designing and engineering complex data and application integration architecture and platforms.
• The incumbent should be able to reflect on previous experiences where they used creative/original approaches to building and supporting middleware/integration platforms.
• Proven experience in configuring communication channels between local systems and cloud-based systems.
• Demonstrable knowledge of current and future trends in cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for the statewide integration platform, including operating and troubleshooting WebSphere MQ, Informatica PowerCenter, PowerExchange, Data Integration Hub, Informatica cloud services, and Apptio Datalink.
• Configure enterprise integration platforms under established guidelines.
• Perform and support ongoing installations, upgrades, maintenance, and support of the agency’s enterprise integration solutions, including messaging and ETL technologies.
• Monitor integration platform use and participate in capacity planning.
• Maintain Integration platforms and implement changes as necessary to align towards service goals (Service Level Agreements – SLA’s) and direction.
• Create and maintain a disaster recovery plan for the integration platforms.
• Monitor production data exchanges for performance and capacity to ensure timely delivery of messages and data.
• Plan, coordinate, schedule, and execute upgrades/patches/hot fixes for integration software platforms.
• Establish connections to move data from various state agencies' systems to Apptio/AFRS/HRMS.
• Perform day-to-day server administration for the Integration platforms, including WebSphere MQ, Informatica, and Data Integration Hub.
• Create standard connections to support Informatica workflow development.
• Protect the integrity of the integration platforms by evaluating incoming requests for appropriateness, escalating when necessary, and implementing when appropriate.
• Manage server and software platform security and permissions in accordance with federal, state, and agency standards and best practices.
• Analyze and document existing integration standards, integration definitions, and business rules.
• Assemble, contribute, and present technical platform specifications, including risk and impact assessments, for integration solutions between enterprise applications.
• Work with the Server/Cloud team or providers and the Network teams to install/deploy, configure, and monitor the OFM Integration platform.
• Monitor servers and the (Enterprise Service Hub) infrastructure for health and availability.
• Monitor other critical platforms supporting the state’s ERP for performance degradation and failure during our outages.
• Investigate and resolve resource balancing issues (out-of-control jobs).
• Implement and follow environment control processes to maintain strict separation between development and production environments, assisting users with deployment and migration paths using GIT based technology and ADO Pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve standard connectivity issues, problems in the platform, and connections to other technical subsystems like SQL, MQ, MFT, Workday, Snowflake, etc.
• Collaborate and work with technicians across OFM/WaTech and with customers to investigate the root cause of incidents.
• Test and implement approved technical fixes, coordinating deployment tasks with technicians from other teams.

Benefits

• An environment of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• 12 paid holidays, 14 paid vacation days (minimum), and 12 days of sick leave per year
• State retirement programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed