IT Solution Architect

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the architectural integrity of the program and maintaining the enterprise vision of the solution from a technical and business perspective.

Find balanced solutions that satisfy both business and technical requirements.

- Responsible for the business/technical solution and guiding what should be done within the program to ensure alignment with the enterprise strategy.

- Provide technical design, prototype development, and support to program management in the initiation, design, development, implementation, maintenance and management of service- based enterprise architecture.

- Lead enterprise architecture analysis, evaluation, design, integration, documentation, and development.

Mediate between competing priorities or technical disagreements.

-Participate in technical working sessions and gather input from SMEs.

- Work with internal and external teams to incorporate domain-specific capabilities and competencies into solution designs.

- Work closely with business leaders, customers, or other stakeholders to understand priorities and constraints.

Facilitate collaboration across organizations and act as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.

-Work directly with customers to understand their needs and design tailored solutions.

Build trust and credibility through consistent delivery and transparency.

- Help guide teams through technology transitions.

Support training and adoption efforts to ensure successful implementation.

- Communicate and collaborate both internal and external to the organization, which includes stakeholders, clients, SMEs, vendors and various teams.

- Provide guidance, coaching, and training to technical employees across the company.

- Delegate and review work of junior technical professionals.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

-Bridge the gap between business requirements and the implementation of technology solutions.

- Responsible for creating and documenting the overall technical vision for an end-to-end business solution that includes all internal and external integration partners.

- Documenting and sharing best practice knowledge for new solutions and advocating for process improvements.

- Reviewing and validating and providing feedback solutions designs from other team members.

- Architecting solutions that are dynamic and robust for long-term vision and which emphasize reusability and configuration and minimize customization.

- Participate in RFP Responses:

- Work closely with the Business Solution Group (BSG) to understand the scope of the RFP.

- Actively participate in solutioning sessions hosted by the BSG as a subject matter expert.

- Work with other solution partners to define the high-level interface requirements.

- Identify any areas of ambiguity in the RFP and seek clarity by formulating questions for the State and other solution partners.

- Identify gaps in capabilities and work with serv...