Enterprise Architect; Infrastructure & Platform Domain

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect (EA) plays a critical role in shaping the future of technology services for Maricopa County. This position offers the opportunity to help modernize and standardize enterprise platforms, influence strategic technology decisions, and build the foundational architecture that enables secure, reliable, and innovative services across the County. The EA will serve as the primary architecture lead for the Compute, Hosting, and Platform Services domain while collaborating across all enterprise architecture service areas.

The role combines strategic planning, technical architecture, governance, and cross‑functional collaboration to ensure technology solutions align with business capabilities, operational needs, and long‑term County priorities.

• Align enterprise technology architecture with business capabilities, departmental roadmaps, and County strategic priorities through current‑state and future‑state planning activities.
• Serve as the primary architecture owner for compute hosting and platform services, including cloud, hybrid infrastructure, resiliency, and platform standards.
• Develop, maintain, and govern enterprise architecture standards, reference architecture, service definitions, and reusable technology patterns.
• Participate in architecture governance activities, including solution reviews, standards validation, risk identification, and design guidance.
• Collaborate with architects and technical teams across identity, networking, integration, applications, resiliency, and security domains to ensure interoperability and dependency alignment.
• Develop and maintain service‑to‑system mappings, dependency models, and architecture documentation supporting operational resiliency, change management, and impact analysis.
• Contribute to enterprise technology roadmaps, modernization strategies, platform lifecycle planning, and capacity planning initiatives.
• Provide architectural guidance and technical analysis supporting technology investment decisions, portfolio alignment, service costing, and total cost of ownership evaluations.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and maturity of the Enterprise Architecture practice, including process improvement, governance refinement, and documentation standards.

• Seven years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise infrastructure, systems engineering, cloud architecture, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture; with five years in at least three of the following areas:
  Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure and hosting platforms, Identity and access management, Networking and connectivity, Enterprise applications, System integration, Disaster recovery and resiliency, IT service management.
• Experience developing or contributing to architectural standards, reference architectures, governance processes, or enterprise technology roadmaps.
• Experience communicating technical concepts and recommendations to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related fields.
• Post‑secondary education and/or job‑related experience may substitute for the minimum qualifications on a year‑for‑year basis.

• Certifications and knowledge of TOGAF, Azure Architect, AWS Architect, VMware, ITL, CISSP.

• Exerting up to 20 lbs. occasionally or 10 lbs. frequently; minimal walking or standing.
• Position is typically office or administrative work and is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

Maricopa County is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application process or to perform the essential functions of the position under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact MHRFeedback to initiate the interactive process.