Solutions Architect

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$60.00/hr - $65.00/hr

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The ideal candidate will be responsible for working cross-functionally to understand architecture needs by multiple business units. To be effective in this position, you must feel comfortable owning the entire architecture development process from inception to completion.

• 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.
• Provides 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:
Current state architecture documentation, vendor assessment for RFP, contribution to cost/benefit analysis, contributions to proof-of-concept implementation.

• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solution’s architecture within our Secretary of State’s Business License Management services or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application, and system architects that manage and design architecture within our Business License Management services or other State agencies that interface with the Business Licensing services.
• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the requirements of our Orion Portfolio effort.
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Works closely with the Orion Portfolio leadership team to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the…