Agency Application Architect

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Opening Date: February 5, 2026

Closing Date: February 20, 2026

Job Class Code: 0168

Grade: 29 Professional/Technical Services

Salary: $77,009.51 - $
* Annually (
* Includes 23.66% recruitment and retention stipend, and eligible for an additional 5% training bonus)

Position Number:

Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Augusta

Telework: Available

The Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Office of Information Technology (Maine

IT) provides information technology support to over 13,000 employees. Maine

IT oversees large scale enterprise applications that support the critical and diverse business needs of the State of Maine and its agencies, as well as supporting smaller custom applications.

Maine

IT is seeking a highly talented individual who will represent our C.A.R.E. values in all that they do. At Maine

IT we:

• Practice Customer-focus, ensuring that our customers are heard, and their needs are met.
• Hold ourselves to a high level of Accountability by being transparent with our stakeholders.
• Maintain an effective level of Responsiveness by providing timely updates in a proactive manner.
• Strive to provide Empathy driven, people-focused services by applying emotional intelligence skills and behaviors.

The Agency Application Architect will play a key role in communication and facilitation between Program Partners, Vendors, DAFS IT Procurement, and the Office of Information Technology. This position will primarily support Maine

IT’s Vendor Management Team. This role involves advanced technical services work, focusing on the architecture of highly complex computer systems. The position is primarily responsible for overseeing vendor-managed applications, ensuring compliance with Maine

IT policies, and supporting Maine

IT team members.

The employee in this position currently has the opportunity to work from home as much as 90% of the time.

• You will be a member of a highly productive technical team working closely with program partners to ensure effective and secure technical solutions for business problems.
• You will have the opportunity to work in a small, independent, and flexible team environment.
• You will help resolve technical issues to provide system functionality and data integration.
• You will experience new and different challenges on an ongoing basis.
• You will have opportunities for training and career development.

• Provide architectural leadership during procurement planning to ensure proposed solutions align with agency IT strategy, enterprise standards, and statutory requirements.
• Translate business and technical needs into clear, measurable architectural requirements suitable for inclusion in RFPs and SOWs.
• Advise program staff on appropriate solution approaches (build vs. buy vs. integrate) based on cost, risk, sustainability, and long-term support considerations.
• Identify opportunities to standardize technologies and reduce duplication through coordinated procurements.

• Develop and review technical sections of RFPs, including architecture, security, integration, scalability, and non-functional requirements.
• Define objective, testable evaluation criteria to assess vendor compliance with architectural standards and agency policies.
• Participate as a technical evaluator, scoring proposals and documenting findings in accordance with procurement rules and audit requirements.
• Identify architectural risks and assumptions in vendor proposals and communicate them clearly to stakeholders.

• Review and contribute to contract and SOW creation, ensuring architectural requirements are enforceable and clearly defined.
• Ensure deliverables, milestones, acceptance criteria, and dependencies are…