IT Architect

About Our Job Who We Are

With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose - for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive and talented workforce of more than 13,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver. We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels.

You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The hiring range for this position is $ - $/year, based on experience and education. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but are not limited to: A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service 457B Retirement Plan 140 hours of PTO earned within first year + 12 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday, 1 Wellness Day and 1 volunteer day per year Competitive medical, dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date

The City and County of Denver utilizes a hybrid model workplace that balances the responsibilities of public service with the benefits of a flexible work environment. Employees work where needed in a city site (Wellington Webb Municipal building at 201 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80202) two days a week and telecommute remotely within the State of Colorado.

The Enterprise Architecture team sets the technical direction that guides how Technology Services delivers and evolves its systems. We focus on emerging technology strategy, infrastructure and application right‑sizing, and the monitoring and observability strategy that keeps our environment healthy and transparent. We drive process improvement in support of the service delivery model, ensuring that architecture decisions align investments with business value, reduce risk, and strengthen the reliability, scalability, and sustainability of the technology that serves the City and County of Denver.

The Technology Services Department is seeking an IT Architect to help shape and advance the City’s enterprise technology strategy. Reporting directly to the Enterprise Architect within Technology Services, you will be a strategic, forward‑thinking technologist who translates business direction into sound, scalable architecture across infrastructure, applications, and platforms. In this role, you will define and promote target‑state architectures, guide emerging technology strategy, and lead infrastructure and application right‑sizing efforts that align capacity and cost with business need.

You will help establish and mature the City’s monitoring and observability strategy so that services are reliable, measurable, and transparent. You will drive process improvement in support of the service delivery model, working across Technology Services teams, business partners, and vendors to ensure architecture standards, reference patterns, and technology roadmaps are understood, adopted, and consistently applied. This role engages closely with TS leadership - and at times with city leaders to communicate architectural direction, present options and trade‑offs, and build alignment on strategic technology decisions and investments.

You will develop architecture artifacts, standards, and roadmaps; evaluate emerging and existing technologies; and provide guidance and governance through mechanisms such as architecture and change reviews, helping teams adopt modern, sustainable, and well‑governed solutions. This role requires strong analytical and design skills, excellent communication, comfort working in both independent and collaborative environments, and a passion for solving complex problems through thoughtful, enterprise‑grade technology architecture.

• Define, document, and promote enterprise and solution architectures…