Senior Architect - remote

Columbus, United States | Posted on 10/14/2026

• Actual Job Title 813717 - JFS - Senior Architect 2/SA2
• Job Type FT Contract
• Date Opened 10/14/2026
• Target Date 10/21/2026
• City Columbus
• State/Province Ohio
• Country United States
• Assigned Recruiter(s) Dinesh Mathi
• Number of Positions 1

JFS OIS supports multiple business units. The hired Architect creates and leverages Business Capability Modelling artifacts, creates Customer Journey Maps as needed and facilitates Business and IT Strategic planning in collaboration with Business Relationship Managers and Senior Leadership. Architectural guidance must be provided for new projects and ensure that current projects follow the JFS technical and application standards and is in alignment with enterprise strategy.

Conduct market research, Technology evaluation and tool comparison and operationalize modern technology and application standards. OIS is focused on Modernization and Cloud Smart Strategy execution projects, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), AI/ML including Virtual Assistants and Generative AI, in Family Assistance, Unemployment Compensation, Workforce Development, Community Support Services and other areas.

• Facilitate and drive Business and IT Strategic Planning discussions with Senior Leadership, Business Relationship Managers and subject matter experts ensuring alignment with organization’s goals and objectives.
• Partner with IT staff and technology experts to create IT Strategy, establish technology standards and guidelines for design and implementation of projects
• Plan, Initiate and spearhead proof of concept initiatives using emerging technologies
• Partner with business and technology experts to understand business requirements, analyze market trends, conduct technology evaluation and comparison analysis and provide recommendations to senior leadership
• Maintain a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information and technology assets.
• Require Technical Architecture skills and experience in Generative AI, Conversational UI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable digital business transformation and provide guidance for modernization efforts.
• Technical writing leveraging Word, Powerpoint, Lucid Chart, Visio, Avolution ABACUS, Sharepoint
• The Architect will be working with business strategists’/process owners/SMEs comprised of Business Unit managers across Family Assistance, Unemployment Compensation, Workforce Development and various admin areas like Finance.
  
  SMEs are within OIS at various roles eg:
  Application Development managers/leads, Requirements teams, Client Partners, Operations leads. The Senior Architect role will be primarily aligned to one or more Business Units while providing backup support to others.

• Provide strategic consultation to assigned line-of-business (LOB) customers for business and IT strategies as well as in researching, internally marketing and enabling the use of standard technologies based on customer requirements.
• Create IT Strategies and guidelines by collaborating with subject matter experts across different IT teams
• Provide architectural input and technical consultation services to implement the strategies and guidelines in projects
• Participate in business opportunity identification and business innovation portfolio development by conducting research, leveraging emerging technologies and adhering to market trends.
• Participate in enterprise architecture development, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio and technical architecture and create models to drive informed business and IT decisions.
• Assess near‑term…