Enterprise Solution​/Technical Architect

Position Details

Position Title: IT Architect (NS)

Agency: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Division: SEC OFFICE - INFO TECH

Position Number:

Grade: DT12

Location: Hybrid - onsite reporting required in Raleigh, NC

The Enterprise Solution/Technical Architect is responsible for providing technical design guidance for application solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, and security. The role develops architecture frameworks, guides development and project teams in solution design, drives seamless integration, evaluates emerging technologies, and addresses complex technical challenges to support long-term IT sustainability. The position provides direction across all architecture domains to support current and future IT operations, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and departmental regulations and adherence to defined architecture principles, standards, and models.

• Provide technical leadership for one or more of the following domains:
  Business Architecture, Application/Software Architecture, Database Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, and Security Architecture.
• Participate in the RFP process and vendor evaluation, and build MVP (Minimal Viable Product) technology solutions in the cloud.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business ecosystems, cloud computing architectures, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Experience with microservices, containerization, immutable infrastructure, and migrating existing workloads to the cloud.
• Knowledge of solution designs and implementation experience to meet architecture quality standards.

Salary grade range: $ - $. Recruitment range: $ - $. The State of North Carolina offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, the NCFlex program, paid vacation, sick leave, community service leave, and paid parental leave. Further details are available on the State benefits website.

The State of North Carolina is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is dedicated to providing a work environment free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. The state offers reasonable accommodation to employees and applicants with disabilities, known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, and for religious beliefs, observances, and practices.