Enterprise Architect IV

Job Description:

• The recruitment is being used to fill (1) Enterprise Architect IV position for the Bureau of Information Technology Services (BITS) at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families.  
• The primary responsibility of this position is serve as an Enterprise Solution Architect and lead efforts in defining best practices, standards and process improvements within BITS for technical infrastructure, application design, coding, and security.
• The goal for this position is to provide the most advanced level of technical expertise and leadership for all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) in order to increase the value and quality of products developed and supported by the section, identify cost effective solutions to saving operating costs, and shaping the future of BITS. 
• This position is also responsible to work with different application development teams within BITS, review and document current application architecture and to set future goals for the bureau by providing recommendations on best practices in Enterprise Application Architecture.
• Extensive coordination and consultation with development area technical leads, other DCF technical support and applications development sections, state agencies, and vendors is expected.
• This position is expected to work with little supervision to create and enforce application security, code standards, deployment processes, database access and design, documentation, and process improvements to establish consistency within BITS.
• This position may be called upon to consult and assist implementing these standards/processes on a larger BITS scale if requested.
• This position requires knowledge of and experience with systems analysis and multi-layered object-oriented design techniques; estimates for analysis, design, programming, testing and implementation tasks; and methods used to develop, install and maintain large complex web applications and also require knowledge methods to create detailed project/system plans.
• Requires knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Web applications architecture, development software, tools and environment such as Visual Basic, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Visual Studio/Interdev, JAVA Script, Web Services, Store Procedures, and HTML in a Microsoft Web development environment using components such as IIS, COM+, DB2 Connect, Visual SourceSafe, Okta, Github Enterprise and Relational Database Management Systems.

List any special qualifications & years of experience:  

• Java Script    (5 years)
• Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation   ( 9 years )
• Excellent oral and written communication skills  ( 9 years )
• Analytical/problem solving skills    (9 years)
• Microsoft Office Suite   (9 years)
• GitHub Enterprise    (4 years)
• SQL Client Tools    (9 years)
• .Net (MS)     (9 years)
• ASP.Net MVC    (9 years)
• SQL    (9 years)
• Documenting requirements    (9 years)
• In-Depth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables for each Phase of Development    (9 years)
• Requirements analysis    (9 years)
• Requirements gathering    (9 years)
• IT Technologies - skills, concepts    (9 years)
• User test, System test, and User Acceptance test plans    (9 years)
• *Mobile Development Experience    (9 years)
• Evaluate and recommend programming languages, design tools, application frameworks, and applications    (9 years)
• Change management    (9 years)
• Project Management experience    (9 years)
• ASP.Net   (9 years)