Description

Responsibilities
• Provides direction, guidance, and definition of IT Platform architecture to effectively support VDOT’s IT and business strategy.
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
• Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.
• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organization.
• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• Leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Preferred experience includes Esri's GIS tools and platform.

Required/Desired Skills

 

SkillRequired /DesiredAmount of exp in YearsCandidate ExperienceLast Used
Experience in technical, substantive and methodological issues related to design architecture for new or emerging solutions and technologies.Required10  
Experience in defining enterprise metadata standards and an enterprise taxonomyRequired4  
Experience with various aspects of enterprise architecture with knowledge of one or more formalized frameworks such as NASCIO, TOGAF, FEAFRequired10  
Experience applying application/software/systems development methodologies including agile approachesRequired10  
IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and oRequired10  
Experience with Esri's GIS tools and platformsHighly desired3  
Experience in cloud application (Azure/AWS) /GIS architecture.Required10  
experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architectureRequired5  
Competency with XML constructs and schemas. experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and RESTRequired10  
Partner with architects, other technical team members and to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs?Required7  
Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business solsRequired10  

Education

Any Gradute