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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may substitute year for year.
• 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including at least 5 years in an architecture, senior systems engineering, or technical lead role.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large, integrated, mission-critical systems.
• Hands-on production experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, or ISO 27001, and experience implementing their controls.
• Experience with networking, identity and access management, Linux and Windows server environments, and relational databases.
• Experience writing technical requirements and overseeing vendors or system integrators.
• Ability to pass a criminal background check and fingerprinting, including CJIS-level screening.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical leaders and the public.
• Ability to balance innovation against stability on systems the public relies on daily.
• Ability to lead through influence across divisions, vendors, and partner agencies.
• Ability to respond to after-hours incidents on critical systems when needed.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a state DOT, transit agency, tolling authority, DMV, or other public-sector transportation setting.
• Domain knowledge in one or more of CAD/AVL and GTFS, paratransit scheduling, AAMVA systems, toll back-office and interoperability, or ITS.
• Experience modernizing mainframe or legacy platforms.
• Experience with API management platforms.
• Experience in PCI DSS environments and payment processing architecture.
• Familiarity with OT and ICS security for field devices.
• Knowledge of enterprise, solution, and integration architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven design, and API-first design.
• Knowledge of zero trust architecture, identity federation such as SAML, privileged access management, and data protection.
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud networking, including VPN, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and SD-WAN.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity design.
• Knowledge of federal and state rules that shape transportation IT, including FTA, FHWA, ADA, DPPA, PCI DSS, and CJIS.
• Skill in producing clear architecture diagrams, standards, and decision records.
• Skill in threat modeling and evaluating security controls.
• Skill in diagnosing complex, multi-system production problems.
• Skill in evaluating vendor solutions on technical merit, risk, and total cost of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architectures for division systems and shared platforms.
• Lead design reviews and produce architecture decision records, reference architectures, and integration patterns.
• Design high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions for revenue- and safety-critical systems, including defined RTO/RPO targets.
• Plan phased, low-risk modernization of legacy platforms, including DMV mainframe workloads.
• Design APIs, event streams, and data integrations across transit, DMV, tolls, and external partners.
• Embed zero trust, identity and access management, segmentation, and encryption into system architectures.
• Lead security architecture reviews for new systems and major changes; align systems with NIST CSF and NIST SP 800-53 and support PCI DSS, CJIS, DPPA, and state security policy compliance.
• Assess OT and roadside system security for toll lanes, onboard transit equipment, and field networks.
• Apply systems engineering across requirements, traceability, interfaces, verification, and validation.
• Follow FHWA Systems Engineering guidance and regional ITS architecture requirements on federally funded projects.
• Define and manage interface control documents between agency systems and vendor platforms.
• Guide integration, performance, failover, and user acceptance testing strategies.
• Shape and execute cloud strategy across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including landing zones and governance.
• Design hybrid architectures connecting on-premises data centers, field devices, and cloud services.
• Promote infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerization, and automated configuration management.
• Drive cloud cost management, tagging standards, and right-sizing with finance.
• Support FedRAMP and StateRAMP evaluations of SaaS and cloud vendors.
• Review and sometimes write technical requirements for RFPs, and evaluate vendor proposals and architectures.
• Provide technical oversight of system integrators and SaaS providers through delivery and operations.
• Set technical standards and best practices across teams.
• Translate technical risks and options into clear recommendations for executives and division leaders.
• Respond to after-hours incidents on critical systems when needed.