Solutions Architect (bureau Of Technology) Actively Recruited

Cook County Offices

Under The President

Administrative Hearings

Auditor

Bureau of Administration

Bureau of Economic Development

Bureau of Finance

Bureau of Human Resources

Bureau of Technology

Facilities

Office of the President

Job Summary

Support and Lead Enterprise Architecture (EA) activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions; solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

Provides analysis and tasks to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

Creates deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

The Solutions Architect position is a highly technical function in the Information Technology (IT) field.

This position is Actively Recruited and At Will.

Minimum Qualifications

•Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree or higher is required.

•Two (2) years of technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, cloud development or directly related experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience in enterprise architecture and solutions development is preferred.

• One or more relevant certifications - TOGAF/Zachman/Professional Cloud (any) Solutions Architect is preferred.

Candidates who are contacted will be required to produce original required documents (e.g., current driver's license, diploma, school transcript, certifications, etc.) listed on the Notice of Job Opportunity within five (5) days of being extended an offer, in writing, by the Bureau Chief of BHR (or designee).

Candidates will be notified of how to submit required documents.



*Degrees awarded outside of the United States with the exception of those awarded in one of the United States territories and Canada, must be credentialed by the World Education Services (WES), Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) or a National Association of Credential Evaluation (NACES) member organization.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls.

• Knowledge of common information architecture frameworks and information models.

• Knowledge and understanding of Architecture frameworks like TOGAF or Zachman, along with modeling languages like ArchiMate/UML.

• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile s...