Information Technology Architect (Senior)

Duties:

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.

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.

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 system 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.

Personnel Preferred Experience

1 .Five (5) years’ experience as an Information Technology Architect.

2. Senior level knowledge or experience in enterprise-level modeling and tools (ex.UML).

3. Demonstrated progression in responsibilities and roles, with experience in designing and implementing complex IT solutions within the Transportation Industry.

4. PMP certification

5. CMMI (Capability Maturity Model integration) Practitioner certification

6. 3-5 years’ experience with MS Power Platform, Azure. Synapse, Data Factory, Data Lakes, Data Bricks, Dataverse, ESRI, Cloud computing, etc.

Substitution of Education for Experience

A bachelor’s degree or higher may be substituted for the general and specialized experience for those labor categories requiring a High School Diploma. A master’s degree may be substituted

for two years of general and specialized experience for those labor categories requiring a bachelor’s degree. Substitution shall be reviewed and approved by the State at its discretion.

Substitution of Experience for Education

A. Substitution of experience for education may be permitted at the discretion of the State.

B. Substitution of Professional Certificates for Experience:

C. Professional certification (e.g., Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, SQL Certified Database Administrator) may be substituted for up to two (2) years for general and specialized

experience at the discretion of the State.