Solution Architect- Utah Water Measurement Data Dashboard
Listed on 2026-08-10
-
IT/Tech
IT Consultant, Data Engineering, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Solution Architect
The Utah Division of Water Rights (DWRi) is seeking an experienced Solution Architect with expertise in software architecture, user experience (UX), solution design, and technology modernization to support the planning and design of the Next-Generation Utah Water Measurement Data Dashboard.
Working through CAI's Contingent Workforce Solutions program, the selected consultant will develop the functional, technical, and architectural blueprint for a modern water data dashboard that will serve DWRi employees, other state agencies, and the public. This initiative represents a significant modernization effort intended to address recommendations identified in the 2023 Legislative Audit and the Utah State University Technology Modernization Roadmap.
DWRi has adopted the Hydro Server platform as the authoritative repository for Utah's water measurement data. The consultant will focus on dashboard architecture, integrations, user experience, implementation planning, and modernization strategy while leveraging existing state technology investments and infrastructure.
This engagement is limited to discovery, requirements gathering, solution architecture, UX refinement, implementation planning, and cost estimation. No production software development, implementation, migration, or system replacement activities are included in this scope.
The Next-Generation Utah Water Measurement Data Dashboard will provide a user-centric web application for accessing, visualizing, analyzing, quality-controlling, and managing water measurement data collected from approximately 1,200 active monitoring sites throughout Utah.
The solution will:
- Support desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile access.
- Provide intuitive data visualization and analytics capabilities.
- Enable internal users to enter observations and perform quality-control workflows.
- Deliver public-facing access to published water measurement data.
- Integrate with Hydro Server and existing DWRi technology platforms.
- Modernize existing water distribution and reporting capabilities.
- Collaborate with DWRi and Division of Technology Services (DTS) stakeholders to establish a shared vision for the future-state platform.
- Analyze business, technical, operational, and integration requirements.
- Assess dependencies with legacy systems and determine modernization approaches.
- Recommend incremental implementation strategies that minimize operational disruption.
- Leverage existing modernization studies, strategic initiatives, and technology investments.
- Develop recommendations utilizing modern software engineering practices, including the Strangler Fig modernization pattern.
- Review and refine existing user personas, workflows, and requirements.
- Evaluate existing Figma mockups and user journeys.
- Identify functional gaps and opportunities to improve usability.
- Incorporate stakeholder feedback from user testing activities.
- Develop high-fidelity, implementation-ready UX designs.
- Ensure solutions follow user-centered design principles and industry best practices.
- Define the overall application architecture and technology stack.
- Develop architectural strategies that align with Hydro Server and its ecosystem.
- Design integration approaches utilizing Sensor Things APIs, Hydro Server APIs, and Hydro Server Py .
- Evaluate GIS architecture and mapping integrations.
- Design authentication and authorization strategies using UtahID.
- Recommend API management, monitoring, security, and governance approaches.
- Define cloud deployment architecture leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Establish logging, monitoring, operational support, scalability, and performance strategies.
- Evaluate modernization opportunities for the existing Water Rights Map Server application.
- Assess migration from ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 3.x to 5.x.
- Recommend phased implementation and release strategies.
- Define approaches that support coexistence with legacy applications when appropriate.
- Evaluate opportunities for integrating Google Gemini and emerging AI capabilities in accordance with State of…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).