IT Enterprise Architect

The Role:

Under general direction, the IT Enterprise Architect ensures both system and solution architecture work collectively in a way that maximizes service delivery. This role manages the City’s enterprise architecture roadmap process, facilitates assessments when needed on any architecture discipline, and defines enterprise architecture standards and documentation requirements providing an enterprise architecture foundation for the City. The ideal candidate for the role will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of experience in IT architecture, IT infrastructure architecture, or a similar role.

Benefits:
The City of Glendale offers a generous benefits package with competitive rates that become effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment. You can review theFY24 Benefits Guide or visit the City of Glendale’s Benefits page for more information.

Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Leave:

Regular status position’s offer: The City of Glendale observes 10.5 holidays per year, and full-time employees are also granted an additional 12 hours of holiday special leave per calendar year to celebrate their cultural or religious holidays. Vacation leave accrues at 5.33 hours per pay period (138 hours per year), and increases to 6.12 hours after 5 years, and to 7.6 hours after 10 years of service. Sick leave accrues at 4.4 hours per pay period (114 hours per year).

Retirement:
	This position participates in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS). Contribution is mandatory, and the current contribution rate is 12.27%.

1. Manages the City’s Enterprise Architecture Roadmap Process, ensuring both system and solution architecture work collectively to maximize City’s IT investment.
2. Ensures each roadmap has appropriate targets, validated against business objectives for an area; providing the transparency and visibility of progress for roadmaps based on the objectives.
3. Co-ordinates and ensures annual working sessions take place for each roadmap to add, change, or remove initiatives.
4. Ensures appropriate enterprise architecture standards and strategies are incorporated into the roadmaps.
5. Facilitates assessment requests on any architecture discipline, system, technology, data, and solution.
6. Incorporates feedback obtained from business customers and IT teams to understand how well each business system is serving its business customers and recommends improvements.
7. Stays abreast of relevant business and technology trends both internal and external to the City, in order to evaluate new/future information system capabilities.
8. Works closely with IT staff to ensure appropriate steps are taken to evolve individual information systems.
9. Analyzes current business and IT environments to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
10. Defines high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state of current systems.
11. Chairs the IT Architecture Review Board to review solution approaches, gain acceptance of solutions, and inform stakeholders of solution architecture review outcomes.
12. Ensures all individual solution architecture artifacts and changes are documented as per process standards and stored in the Technical Library to facilitate compliance, organization, and access.
13. Consults with program/project teams as requested to fit solutions to architecture across all viewpoints and identify when it is necessary to modify the Enterprise Information System architecture to accommodate immediate or future needs.
14. Provides on-call support during non-business hours.
15. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of experience in IT architecture, IT infrastructure architecture, or a similar role.

Any equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. One year of relevant experience may be substituted for each year of required education.  

Knowledge of:

• System development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
• Architecture methodologies and modeling languages
• Business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS)
• Combining contextual, conceptual, logical, and physical levels of thinking
• Architecture governance
• Skill in architecture frameworks, road mapping, risk management, and interdependency management skills

Ability to:

• Establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements.
• Build consensus among stakeholders
• Balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals
• Innovate with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking
• Understand the political climate of the City and how to navigate obstacles and politics
• Develop strategic technology plans and roadmaps, including business capability planning
• Lead efforts to create technological solutions and architectures impacting critical areas of the business
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with diverse range of stakeholders
• Support development of teammates by sharing knowledge and experience
• Work independently, exercise sound independent judgment and meet established project schedules
• Develop clear, accurate, and detailed communication both verbally and written to various audiences

Special Requirements

• Ability to work overtime, shifts, weekends and holidays as required.
• ACJIS TOC-D certification required within 30 days of employment.

Success Factor Classification Level - Professional/Supervisory
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This position description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the position change.Office setting.

Salary : $113,333 - $170,000