IT Solutions Architect

Job Description:

IT Solutions Architect

Purpose:

This position is responsible for defining and designing architecture that drives the City towards targeted outcomes by leveraging existing and innovative technology to enable the City’s future-state business capabilities and business models. This position aligns IT and enterprise strategy, maintains business capability models to reflect new or improved processes or IT systems, creates common standards to ensure integrity of the models, and influences enterprise strategy.

Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned. Promotes digital business initiatives and identifies potential impact on the City’s critical financial metrics and economic architectures. Supports business and technology innovation that drives the City’s objectives. Engages key business stakeholders and product managers to facilitate both strategy and innovation planning.

Collaborates with stakeholders involved in digital strategy and digital innovation to develop an IT investment roadmap. Creates deliverables that illustrate how to strategically move the business forward. Works with enterprise architects and key organizational stakeholders to define a strategic plan for leveraging integrated architecture as part of the enterprise architecture. Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.

Provides strategic consultation to product managers in defining or designing business capabilities, processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing, selling and enabling technologies based on business and end-user requirements. Participates in enterprise architecture development, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio and technical architecture, and champions the balance of flexibility and risk. Facilitates agreement on organizational work models and processes to meet business requirements.

Seeks ways to apply new technology to, and reuse existing technology for, business processes. Researches and provides information on technical trends and competitors' practices relevant to assigned products and value streams.

• May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed. Knowledge of business architecture tools and techniques, including strategy on a page, strategic planning, business model canvas, disruptions and trends, balance scorecard, economical modeling, risks and interdependencies, process models, business capability modeling, ecosystems modeling, customer and user profiling, journey maps, and human-centric design.

Knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid). Knowledge of existing, new and emerging technologies and being able to practically incorporate them into new business designs and business models. Knowledge of architecture methodologies (e.g., SABSA, Zachman, TOGAF) and modeling languages (such as UML and Archi Mate). Knowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing business processes, functions and organizational structures.

Knowledge of facilitation and organization change management. Skill in…