Plans, designs, develops, and implements architecture for systems, applications, security, or other highly specialized phases of IT architecture. Applies technology and designs system architectures to align with agency's strategic business objectives.
This class is intended for use at the expert level.
Leads planning and evolution of an agency’s computing technology and architecture design. Works with executive leadership to create technology strategies that support the agency’s overall goals and strategic plans. Develops and maintains the technology strategic roadmap and the security architecture documents. Works with others to align the agency’s technology initiatives with state-level standards and strategic directions, ensuring compliance with all applicable security standards. Effectively communicates technology and security topics to executive leadership. Performs the lead role to compare, evaluate, and recommend products and vendors to fulfill technology objectives. Leads the decision process to select technologies and coordinate the transition of responsibility for implementation to the appropriate groups. Develops policies, processes, and management control methods to ensure technology architectures and strategic direction are created, documented, understood, adhered to, and enforced. Creates documentation to record activities and decisions. Provides leadership in strategic planning, architecture planning, technology review committees, system development life cycle processes, change control boards, security compliance processes, and other relevant activities. Act as agency representative to external authorities with respect to technology architecture, strategic direction, governance, evaluations, reviews, and approvals. Communicates external activities and directives to appropriate staff in a timely manner. Leads in the response to state-level IT requirements and activities, and other technology governance and compliance activities. Follows and analyzes market trends. Maintains current and comprehensive knowledge of relevant technology developments in the market, staying abreast of technology trends and emerging technologies. Provides strategic vision steering for the adoption of new technologies that supports the agency’s mission and vision.
Extensive knowledge/skills of the IT industry which includes multi-tiered architectures, enterprise applications, evaluation of emerging technologies, networks, data management systems, enterprise security, and hardware systems. Ability to plan, organize, direct, and review the work of technical personnel. Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with clients, technical staff, management, vendors, and others. Extensive knowledge of the principles and techniques of planning programs and work activities in a technical environment.
A bachelor's degree in information technology or a related field and experience in business administration, computer science, mathematics, engineering, management information science, networking-telecommunications, and/or data processing. Experience must include the design and implementation of enterprise-level systems architecture in either an on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environment. Relevant experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree on a year-for-year basis.