IT Architect - Integrations

The IT Architect designs, plans, and governs technical solutions that enable secure, reliable, and efficient City operations across enterprise applications, data/analytics, infrastructure, networking, cloud platforms, information security, and end-user technologies. The role partners with IT teams and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable architecture, standards, roadmaps, and reusable patterns; leads or advises delivery teams during implementation; and documents solutions to ensure maintainability, compliance, and long-term value.

Work is performed under general direction with latitude for initiative and independent judgment.

Defines application and API patterns; integrates COTS/SaaS; ensures performance, security, and lifecycle standards.

• Partner with stakeholders to elicit and refine business and technical requirements; convert them into target architecture, solution designs, and implementation plans.
• Define, maintain, and advocate technology standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns (security, integration, data, networking, cloud, observability, automation).
• Produce architecture deliverables (diagrams, logical/physical models, interface contracts, data maps, migration plans, runbooks) and keep them current.
• Guide solution delivery across the lifecycle: design reviews, configuration, integration, testing, change control, and readiness for operations; support post-go-live stabilization.
• Embed security-by-design practices (identity, least privilege, encryption, hardening, monitoring) and ensure alignment with applicable compliance frameworks (e.g., CJIS, HIPAA, PCI).
• Engineer for reliability, performance, capacity, and cost efficiency; leverage automation/IaC, scripting, and orchestration to reduce toil and improve consistency.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including backup, restore, failover, and resilience testing.
• Evaluate and select products/services; manage technical aspects of vendor engagements and validate changes by contractors and service providers.
• Mentor peers and provide technical leadership within and across teams; share knowledge through documentation, training, and communities of practice.
• Create and/or oversee data flows, pipelines, and storage designs as needed to support analytics, reporting, integration, and operational use cases.
• Participate in incident response for complex issues; drive root-cause analysis and continuous improvement of standards and architectures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education, Training, and Experience Guidelines

• Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR four (4) additional years of directly related experience in lieu of a degree.
• Seven (7)+ years of progressive IT experience with at least three (3) years in architecture, design, or senior engineering roles;
  Senior IT Architect typically ten (10)+ years with broad, multi-domain experience.
• A Master’s degree may substitute for up to two (2) years of experience.

• Enterprise platforms and practices across one or more domains: networks (LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, load balancers), cloud services (e.g., Microsoft Azure), virtualization, operating systems, identity and access, databases and data platforms, integration technologies, observability/monitoring, IT service management, Dev Ops/IaC, and security architecture.
• Data/analytics concepts: data modeling (conceptual/logical/physical), data warehousing/lakes, ETL/ELT, data quality, metadata management, BI/reporting, and pipeline design.
• Compliance and security standards and practices relevant to municipal operations (e.g., CJIS, HIPAA, PCI).

• Translating business requirements into secure, scalable technical designs and actionable implementation plans.
• Building well-designed, documented systems (applications, networks, data stores, pipelines) that improve decision-making and operational outcomes.
• Scripting and automation (e.g., Power Shell, Python) to improve productivity and…