Enterprise Architect

Requisition No:870510

Agency:
Management Services

Working Title:

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT -

Enterprise Architect
Florida Digital Service
State of Florida Department of Management Services
This position is located in Tallahassee, FL

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The Enterprise Architect serves as the Enterprise Architecture Team Lead and reports to the Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Administrator. Together, these positions provide strategic leadership for the State’s enterprise architecture function in accordance with section 282.0051, Florida Statutes. The role supports the development and governance of the statewide enterprise architecture framework, standards, and modernization strategies that guide technology decision-making across the enterprise in alignment with Florida’s cloud-first policy, interoperability directives, and cybersecurity priorities.

The position evaluates existing and emerging technologies and translates statutory directives and business objectives into actionable architectural guidance and roadmaps.

In this role, the Enterprise Architect designs and delivers implementation‑ready architecture blueprints for enterprise platforms, including cloud, identity, security, and data environments. The position translates enterprise architecture standards into deployable technical patterns, configurations, and integration models that can be operationalized by engineering teams. Working closely with engineering staff, the Enterprise Architect validates design decisions, reviews configurations, and resolves complex cross-domain architectural challenges.

The role serves as the technical architecture lead for enterprise security platforms, including the Security Data Lake ecosystem and Zero Trust initiatives, and provides deep technical oversight throughout implementation to ensure solutions adhere to established enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, and statewide governance expectations.

The Enterprise Architect supports structured review processes for identified projects and procurements, providing documented alignment assessments to inform decision-making. In collaboration with SOC and Engineering leadership, the role provides architectural direction for SOC‑enabling platforms, including the Security Data Lake ecosystem, ensuring scalability, interoperability, and alignment with enterprise risk priorities. The position also supervises and develops enterprise architecture staff and serves as a liaison to executive leadership and partner teams to promote cohesive, enterprise‑aligned technology strategy.

• Supervise, mentor, and develop enterprise architecture team members, including coaching, performance feedback, structured professional development planning, and succession planning to ensure long‑term capability continuity.
• Direct and oversee the development, documentation, and maintenance of architecture workflows, policy interpretation guidance, standards templates, decision logs, and exception tracking mechanisms, while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and operational excellence.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the architecture team and other cybersecurity, IT, business, and SOC units, coordinating participation in projects and initiatives to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives and respect for partner team priorities.
• Communicate architecture priorities, status updates, risks, and operational impacts to the Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Administrator, Deputy State CISO, executive leadership, and other stakeholders through formal and informal briefings and reports.
• Oversee and coordinate architecture contributions to deliverables, exercises, and strategic initiatives.

• Define, maintain, and evolve the enterprise architecture framework, standards, and guiding principles, as required by s. 282.0051, Florida Statutes that inform statewide technology decision‑making and modernization initiatives.
• Identify systemic barriers to enterprise…