Systems Architect

Overview

The City of Eugene is seeking a strategic and experienced Systems Architect to lead the design and integration of enterprise-level IT systems that support municipal operations and public services. This role is critical in ensuring that the City’s technology infrastructure is secure, scalable, interoperable, and aligned with both current and future needs of residents, departments, and regulatory bodies.

Final date to receive applications: Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at 5 p.m. P.T. Accepting Online Applications Only

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Classification: Systems Programmer 3

Salary: $58.60 – $79.11 hourly / $ - $ Annually
The City of Eugene determines starting pay within the range based on relevant education and experience as provided by the applicant in their application materials. This process is consistent with the Oregon Equal Pay Act (OEPA).

Department, Division: Central Services, Information Services Division

Position Information: Non-Represented, Exempt

Work Location: City Hall, 500 E 4th Avenue, Eugene
Hybrid must reside in the State of Oregon and be able to report onsite work as needed.

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM with flexibility per business need.

Benefits: The City of Eugene offers robust and competitive benefits. For more information, select the Benefits Tab, or view benefits summaries as well as information about all employee benefits.

Bilingual Pay Benefit: This position qualifies for up to an additional 5% of base salary for bilingual pay. See the Supplemental Information at the end of the posting for more information.

Living & Working in Eugene: Information about living in Eugene, how the City operates, and more can be found on our website.

• Plan, design, and maintain the City’s enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, fiscal responsibility, capacity planning, security and supportability, and compliance with regulations.
• Develop and document system architecture standards, policies, procedures, roadmaps, and integration strategies to cover the breadth of City department requirements.
• Develop and deploy methodologies for testing systems performance and providing systems performance statistics (including KPIs) and reports.
• Develop and implement monitoring and workflows for actionable items from monitoring tools.
• Lead modernization efforts including cloud consolidation and migration, legacy system transformation, and digital service delivery to citizens.
• Design for a future-ready state including AI and other emerging technologies.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on products, services, protocols, and emerging technologies in support of system development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness, resilience, performance, and system flexibility and availability.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops teams to ensure system performance, security, and scalability objectives are met and CI/CD pipelines are optimized.
• Provide technical leadership and take an advisory role with regards to the City’s systems and interconnectivity.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity team to establish security principles and ensure systems meet cybersecurity, data privacy, accessibility, and compliance standards (CJIS, HIPAA, PCI, ADA, NIST).
• Lead root cause analysis in system design for major incidents.
• Perform other duties, as required.

• Extensive experience with Microsoft’s portfolio of on premise and cloud applications, services, and infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and planning skills to work inter-departmentally and address stakeholder needs and concerns.
• Strategic vision to align solutions with the City’s technology, service, and budget requirements.

To view detailed information on the duties, knowledge, and abilities that may be expected for this position, please see the classification:
Systems Programmer 3

Experience

S ix years professional-level experience in a secure network environment, including project management, analysis, procurement, installation and maintenance of systems and server architecture.

Education

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work…