Director of IT Architecture
| Company | City of Philadelphia |
|---|---|
| Location | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Proficiency in architecture modeling tools and languages.
- Strong knowledge of relevant technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex architectural challenges.
- Ability to adapt to evolving technologies and business needs.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to manage project budgets, timelines, and resources while maintaining a high level of quality in deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily activities of the Enterprise & Solution Architects and related staff; provide direction and supervision to a cloud support team.
- Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and governance to ensure consistency and interoperability across the enterprise.
- Take a holistic view of the organization, considering how different projects and systems interact and contribute to the overall architecture.
- Create and maintain comprehensive enterprise architecture models, encompassing business, data, application, and technology domains.
- Develop and maintain technology roadmaps, guiding the evolution of the IT landscape to meet future business requirements.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies and oversee the integration of these solutions into the overall enterprise architecture.
- Consider factors such as reliability, scalability, flexibility, and security in the architecture decisions to ensure long-term success of the City.
- Evaluate new technologies and tools to determine their suitability for integration into product and enterprise-wide architecture.
- Collaborate with leaders from various departments to understand business needs and ensure that IT initiatives support broader organizational objectives.
- Provide guidance to product, solution architects, development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks related to technology solutions, ensuring security, compliance, and scalability.
- Manages risks associated with technology decisions, considering factors like compliance, security, and long-term sustainability.
- Collaborate with IT Security & Governance to ensure compliance and approved pathways to production for all domain initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Security and HIPAA compliance in networked solution(s)
- Experience with monitoring and alerting software tools and systems, such as Solar Winds, What’s Up Gold, PagerDuty, Better Stack
- Understanding of AWS/Azure Virtual and Cloud environments