Enterprise Solution​/Technical Architect

IT Architect (NS)

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is one of the largest, most complex agencies in the state, and has approximately 17,000 employees. It is responsible for ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of all North Carolinians, providing human service needs for special populations including individuals who are deaf, blind, developmentally disabled, and mentally ill, and helping poor North Carolinians achieve economic independence.

The Enterprise Solution/Technical Architect is responsible for providing technical design guidance for application solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, and security. In this role, you will develop architecture frameworks and guide development and project teams in solution design. You will also drive seamless integration, evaluate emerging technologies, and solve complex technical challenges to support long-term IT sustainability. This position provides direction across all architecture domains to support current and future IT operations, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and departmental regulations, as well as adherence to defined architecture principles, standards, and models.

Candidates now meet the minimum qualifications of a position if they meet the minimum education and experience listed on the vacancy announcement. The Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)/ Management Preferences are not required. Applicants who possess the following skills are preferred:

• Provide technical leadership for one or more of the following domains:
  Business Architecture, Application/Software Architecture, Database Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture and Security Architecture.
• Participates in the RFP process and vendor evaluation. Hands-on experience to build MVP (Minimal Viable Product) technology solutions in the cloud.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business ecosystems, cloud computing architectures, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Experience working with Microservices, containerization, immutable infrastructure and migrating existing workloads to the cloud.
• Knowledge of solution designs and implementation experience to meet architecture quality standards.

The Office of the Secretary serves as the executive leadership arm of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), guiding the Department's mission to improve the health, safety, and well-being of all North Carolinians. Through strategic oversight and collaborative leadership, the Secretary's Office supports the effective coordination of over a dozen core divisions, ensuring that agency-wide priorities are aligned, resources are used responsibly, and services are delivered with equity and impact.

In collaboration with our partners, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) protects the health and safety of all North Carolinians and provides essential health and human services. The IT division (ITD) is one of the divisions that report to the Operational Excellence portfolio. The ITD division comprises four sections:
Implementation and Operations, Strategy and Workforce, Enterprise Technology, and Vendor and Finance. ITD offers the following services but not limited to implementations, operations, project/portfolio management, infrastructure, consulting, business division liaison, digital transformation, IT strategy, enterprise technology, IT contract and vendor management, and data office services.

The State of North Carolina offers excellent comprehensive benefits. Employees can participate in health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, and the NCFlex program (numerous…