Solution Architect

Position:
Solution Architect Duration: 1+ year

Location:

Carson City, NV (50% onsite; 50% remote) Experience and Skills Required

The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office is seeking a Solution Architect to join the Orion Program supporting several Project Initiatives to streamline/modernize/improve the customer and internal user experience for the State’s Online Business Licensing Management services. The Solution Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports Enterprise Architect activities that will guide our development and management of our portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

This role will develop tools to help with API integrations with the new licensing solution as well as other helpful automation. This role will also assist with data cleansing, data migration, and report creation for the business.

They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The Solution Architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that our Orion Portfolio solutions meet business needs and align with architectural principles, and governance and standards here at the Secretary of State’s Office.

They create deliverables for managing the organization’s portfolio of “to be” and “as is” solutions – including systems (applications, processes, information and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Works closely with the Orion Portfolio Leadership, Project teams, and IT Enterprise Architecture committee to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization’s targeted business outcomes.
• Provide input and guidance on individual and team weekly goals, monitor progress through a positive, collaborative and encouraging work environment.
• Example of potential deliverables provided while performing this role: requirements traceability document, business process/capability impact assessment and business process diagrams.

• Assess the current state of implemented services and solutions and identify any deficiencies, like the aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement within our Orion Portfolio.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solution’s architecture.
• Examples of potential deliverables provided while performing this role:
  Current state architecture documentation,…