Technical Architect

The State of Wisconsin is looking for a Technical Architect - III

Candidate MUST be a WI resident.

The District Attorney IT Program (DAIT) is recruiting for a Technical Architect III to fill an important technical and business role on the team. This is an exciting opportunity to adapt your experience to evolve and support our infrastructure, application, process, and security architectures.

Position Summary :

Design, implement, and support the organization's IT infrastructure. Provide architectural frameworks for information systems, security, and application delivery. Understand user and process requirements and ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables. Align development plans to ensure effective integrations and automations among systems and the IT infrastructure. Monitor technological advancements to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with standards and emerging business requirements. Understand the interactions, data flows, and security between systems and services within the environment, and evaluate the operational impact of changes. Analyze and test systems to ensure performance, reliability, security, and scalability are aligned with standards. Maintain documentation while developing operational frameworks and proposals. This position requires multiple disciplines with experience in cloud services, on premises datacenters, networking, data, communications, security, storage platforms, and system performance. Combined with technical expertise, this position requires frequent team and customer consultations on technical configurations and escalated requests, all contributing to the effective use of the architecture to enable the Bureau's business goals.

DAIT supports core business applications, infrastructure, networking, computer, storage, data, and security solutions for the State of Wisconsin's 71 District Attorney offices. DAIT develops, maintains, and enhances the District Attorney's office's case management software, PROTECT. This system is mission-critical for secure communications and paperless workflows in DA offices and integrates data from various State justice partners. PROTECT's modernization, which is currently underway, is a major project and will be an important collaboration in this position's work portfolio.

Position's skill requirements with a minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience.

• Design, build, administer, support, and secure on premises and cloud hosting environments.
• WAN / LAN configurations using Cisco routers and switches. QoS, NAT, routing, split tunneling, static routes, EIGRP, and 802.1x.
• Firewall configuration, management, and support. Including firewall clusters, router-based firewalls, and VPN concentrators.
• Cybersecurity skills, including knowledge of Zscaler and CrowdStrike.
• Network monitoring tracking uptime, latency, and throughput. Analyze trends to build cases for change to enhance performance, scalability, and security.
• Create and maintain documentation of detailed design specifications for technology solutions that meet budget, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Azure and AWS configuration, management, and support.
• Conduct periodic risk analyses on systems and workflows to ensure compliance and policy levels are maintained.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks and assess their

suitability for the bureau's budget, ROI, and business requirements.

Example Responsibilities :

development team to recommend an implementation methodology and ensure the data set being integrated meets all applicable security requirements. Recommend testing and performance routines and documentation details.

communications and document resolutions on the support ticket.

implemented feature sets and configurations and present recommendations to DAIT that support change benefits and ROI.

At least 5 years of experience :

Nice to Have Skills :

Strongly Preferred Skills :

Interview Process :

Duration of the Contract :

Onsite or Remote?