IT Enterprise Architect

Salary : $113,953.42 - $166,968.88 Annually

Location : Mesa, AZ

Job Type : Full Time

Job Number : 15127

Department : (H155)Innovation and Technology

Opening Date : 09 / 27 / 2024

Closing Date : Continuous

Description / Duties

This classification has been designated as a non-classified, non-merit system, at-will position.

First review of applications will be on Monday, October 14, 2024, and weekly thereafter.

Position Assignment : This role manages Mesa'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 Mesa. Primary responsibilities include : managing Mesa's Enterprise Architecture Roadmap Process, ensuring both system and solution architecture work collectively to maximize City's IT investment; ensuring each roadmap has the appropriate targets, and they are validated against business objectives for that area; providing the transparency and visibility of progress of roadmaps based on the objectives; coordinating and ensuring annual working sessions take place for each roadmap to add, change, or remove initiatives; ensuring appropriate enterprise architecture standards and strategy are incorporated into the roadmaps; facilitate assessments that can be requested on any architecture discipline, systems, technology, data, and solution; incorporating feedback obtained from business customers, and IT teams to understand how well each business system is serving its business customers and recommend improvements; staying abreast of relevant business and technology trends internal and external to Mesa, in order to evaluate new / future information system capabilities; working closely with individual system and solution architects to : ensure appropriate steps are taken to evolve individual information systems; analyze current business and IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement; and define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state of current systems.

The IT Enterprise Architect focuses across the portfolio of projects and enterprise operations engaged with architecture, while supporting individual project or solution architects in that portfolio. The IT Enterprise Architect ensures that 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 IT Enterprise Architect class is distinguished from the IT Solution Architect and IT System Architect classes in that the Enterprise Architect ensures both system and solution architecture work collectively in a way that maximizes service delivery. The IT Enterprise Architect class is distinguished from the IT Manager class by the latter's responsibility for developing and delivering the service strategy for one or more business solutions or infrastructure services and understanding IT service cost drivers, resource development, business relationship management, and strategic planning. The IT Enterprise Architect class is distinguished from the IT System or Solution Architect class by the latter's responsibility for an assigned system or business solution technology environment, standards, and integration.

An IT Enterprise Architect operates from established goals and objectives and is supervised by a Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) who reviews performance through observation of work in progress, conferences, evaluation of results achieved, and customer and / or team feedback. The IT Enterprise Architect class is responsible for managing the IT Roadmap including oversight of IT System and Solution Architects' adherence to enterprise architecture standards. Incumbents in this class assist management in planning, directing, and coordinating operational or procedural matters to meet goals and objectives. Employees in this class are required to participate in team on-call support 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. This class is FLSA exempt-computer professional.

About the Ideal Candidate : Master's Degree in an IT relevant field or Master's in Public Administration or equivalent training, education, and experience. Considerable (3 - 5 years) senior technical or architectural project leadership, and / or large-scale project and program management experience. TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) certification.

Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture modeling standards and tools such as Archimate. Familiarity with local government operations, regulations, and procurement processes. Strategic planning skills, with experience aligning IT architecture initiatives with organizational goals. Strong communication, consensus building, and stakeholder and vendor management experience.

Please refer to the link below for the full job description and additional information regarding assignments, preferred qualifications, and essential functions.

Qualifications & Requirements

Employee Values : All employees of the City of Mesa are expected to uphold and exhibit the City's shared employee values of Knowledge, Respect, and Integrity.

M inimum Qualifications Required. Any combination of training, education, and experience equivalent to graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field. Minimum of seven years of hands-on design and implementation experience in IT, including a minimum of five years in IT architecture, enterprise architecture, or a related role. Deep knowledge in a minimum of four of the following disciplines : Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or others), IT infrastructure (networking, databases, and middleware), Application development (App / Dev, Integration environments, and APIs), Cybersecurity (with an emphasis on public sector), Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and familiarity with hybrid IT environments, Data management and compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, CJIS, PCI), Business process modeling and workflow optimization, and IT Project Management and Frameworks (ITIL, etc.).

Special Requirements. For this position, an individual receiving a conditional offer of employment from the City of Mesa must pass a background investigation through the City of Mesa Police Department, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, and Federal Bureau of Investigation prior to commencing employment with the City of Mesa.

Link to Job Description

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How many years of experience do you have working with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or others?

• None
• Some but less than 3 years
• 3 years or more but less than 5 years
• 5 years or more but less than 7 years
• 7 years or more but less than 9 years
• 9 years or more

Have you led a team of IT systems and solution architects?

If you answered yes to Question 2, how many systems and solution architect team members were on the largest team led?

Have you been responsible for aligning IT architecture with an organization's strategic goals?

Have you led initiatives that fostered collaboration across multiple departments or city divisions?

If you answered yes to Question 5, approximately how many initiatives of this nature have you led?

Please provide an example of when you have implemented or led the adoption of any emerging technologies in the public sector, including employer(s). If none, type N / A.

Please detail any relevant certifications that you currently possess (examples : TOGAF, PMP, ITIL, CISSP, cloud architectures, etc.). If none, type N / A.

Please describe your experience with Options Analysis, including employer(s). If none, type N / A.

Please describe your experience with Current and Future State documentation, including the scope and the tools you used, including employer(s). If none, type N / A.

Required Question

Salary : $113,953 - $166,969