Senior Information Technology Architect

Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Master’s degree preferred.

General Experience:

•  At least ten (10) years of experience planning, designing, building, and implementing IT systems.

Preferred Experience:

• Five (5) years of experience as an Information Technology Architect
• Senior-level knowledge or experience in enterprise-level modeling and tools (ex.UML).
• Demonstrated progression in responsibilities and roles, with experience in designing and implementing complex IT solutions within the Transportation Industry.
• PMP certification
• CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Practitioner certification
• 3-5 years’ experience with MS Power Platform, Azure. Synapse, Data Factory, Data Lakes, Data Bricks, Dataverse, ESRI, Cloud computing, etc

Specialized Experience:

•  At least five (5) years of the required ten (10) years of experience must be in the direct supervision and management of major projects that involve providing professional support services and/or the integration, implementation, and transition of large complex systems and subsystem architectures.
• Must have led or been chief architect in major IT implementation efforts.
• Must demonstrate a broad understanding of client IT environmental issues and solutions and be a recognized expert within the IT industry.
• Must demonstrate advanced abilities to team and mentor and possess demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides expertise in the most current principles and practices of architecture data management systems and experience in large system designs, and with data modeling in the information management arena.
•  Provides expertise in modeling and organizing information to facilitate support of projects or information architectures.
• Provides guidance on how and what to data and process model.
•  Primarily deals with transition planning from legacy to modern systems by concentrating on information flows, data exchange, and data translation standardization services.
• Identify and research new technologies including cloud PaaS, SaaS, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence (BI), data science and analytics, and other Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products for applicability to SHA business functions.
• Develop and expand the use of existing platforms and applications including Oracle and SQL databases, Salesforce, Azure, ESRI, .NET, PowerBuilder, AASHTOware, SharePoint, and Microsoft Power Platform.
• Provide technology briefings on emerging technology to OIT management, the SHA IT Steering Committee (ITSC), or other teams as directed by OIT management.
• Provide recommendations to OIT management, the SHA IT Steering Committee (ITSC), or other MDOT teams regarding specific technology or COTS products.
• Develop detailed short-term and long-term plans for implementation; provide input to the budget process, and guidance to staff developing invitations for bids, requests for information, requests for proposals, and/or TORFP requirements for acquisition and implementation of technology.
• Support OIT’s cybersecurity responsibilities including representing SHA on the MDOT Security Working Group (SWG)
• Advise and participate in Disaster Recovery Planning and Execution
• Advise on and conduct data classification of applications and conducting security-related research.
• Represent SHA on the MDOT Data Governance Council
• Represent SHA on the Network Architecture Working Group (NAWG)
• Participate in the OIT Project Review Committee (PRC) meetings to adopt or reject new IT project requests.
• Other duties as assigned include documentation as directed by the Department.
• Author, contribute to, or review documents pertaining to future architecture, target architecture for specific projects, and system design for potential projects. This includes the yearly IT master plan.

Mandatory Degree and/or Certificate(s) from the resources:

1. Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
2. PMP Certification.
3. CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Practitioner certification.