Digital Architect

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• Experience as a software architect, leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions using modern development stacks in complex organizational environments (5+ years).
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices for cloud or hybrid environments (5+ years).
• Experience working with teams that also apply UX design, service design, design thinking, or human-centered design approaches (5+ years).
• Proven ability to define and communicate solution architecture for large-scale systems, including integrations, modernization strategies, and cloud-native design patterns (5+ years).

Responsibilities:

• Lead the solution architecture of digital services by developing the overall architectural plan, ensuring a citizen-centered design and agile software approach.
• Uncover existing system context.
• Provide recommendations and prototypes for technical Client and feasibility.
• Provide and be accountable for the solution designs that account for iterative implementation.
• Analyze impacts, exposure, and risk as it pertains to the solution design.
• Guide the team in the implementation of digital services by facilitating frequent delivery of products to ensure that the target architecture is successfully created.
• Determine the tactical approach on each integration and the target state of system boundaries and interactions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage common components and capabilities of other digital services.
• Encourage team contribution towards developing opportunities to leverage other digital services.
• Provide guidance on the creation of detailed designs for solution implementation.
• Review code changes.
• Contribute to code changes in order to implement user stories and to complete technical tasks.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to the product team.
• Contribute to the architectural vision for a platform of user-centric services, particularly as it relates to the use of common components and capabilities to accelerate service delivery.
• Contribute to the development of principles, metrics, and standards for service quality and delivery.
• Provide software architecture information to technical and non-technical audiences by creating materials (documents, diagrams, presentations, etc.) appropriate to the audience.
• Actively participate in the development and continuous improvement of the architecture practice.

Nice to Have:

• Experience and technical knowledge of the Microsoft .NET Framework (5+ years).
• Experience designing and managing APIs, including RESTful services and system integrations (5+ years).
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, deployment, and observability (4+ years).
• Experience incrementally transforming existing legacy systems into modern digital services across multiple releases (6+ years).
• Experience working with both relational and non-relational databases, including schema design and performance optimization (4+ years).
• Experience working within public sector digital service frameworks or enterprise architecture standards (3+ years).