Overview

IT Enterprise Architect Career Opportunity We are seeking an experienced IT Enterprise Architect to lead and mature our Enterprise Architecture Program. This role will help translate agency strategy, business priorities, and service needs into practical technology roadmaps, standards, architecture decisions, and modernization recommendations across cloud, applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, enterprise platforms, and AI-enabled solutions. Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Enterprise Architect will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, business owners, project teams, technical leaders, governance bodies, and vendors. The role will focus on enterprise alignment, architecture governance, solution review, technology lifecycle planning, risk reduction, and long-term sustainability. The Enterprise Architect will guide and coordinate domain specialists rather than assume operational ownership of every system or platform. This position works in close partnership with the Director of Information Security, IT leadership, and agency governance bodies to ensure recommendations appropriately consider security, privacy, compliance, operational support, cost, and agency priorities. IT Enterprise Architect Role and Responsibilities Manage and mature the Enterprise Architecture Program, including its governance processes, architecture standards, review practices, templates, decision records, reference architectures, roadmaps, and architecture repository. Partner with agency leaders and business owners to translate strategic priorities, business capabilities, service needs, and program objectives into current-state, target-state, and transition architectures. Establish practical architecture checkpoints within project intake, procurement, vendor review, security review, solution design, change governance, and transition-to-operations processes. Lead and facilitate architecture reviews for major projects, procurements, cloud services, SaaS platforms, applications, integrations, infrastructure changes, data platforms, AI-enabled solutions, and modernization initiatives. Document architecture decisions, conditions, exceptions, accountable owners, remediation actions, and escalation recommendations for review by the appropriate governance authority. Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, design patterns, reference architectures, review criteria, technology roadmaps, and reusable decision frameworks. Provide architecture guidance across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure, Microsoft 365, identity services, data platforms, endpoint services, collaboration capabilities, security services, and AI-enabled solutions. Evaluate proposed technologies for business alignment, security, privacy, accessibility, operational supportability, resiliency, integration, scalability, interoperability, cost, and long-term sustainability. Evaluate total cost of ownership, licensing implications, vendor concentration, exit considerations, capability duplication, support models, and technology lifecycle costs when developing recommendations. Maintain visibility into technical debt, unsupported technologies, duplicated capabilities, architecture exceptions, lifecycle concerns, vendor dependencies, and modernization opportunities. Identify opportunities to standardize, consolidate, rationalize, modernize, replace, or retire technologies across the enterprise portfolio. Establish practical architecture guardrails for AI-enabled solutions, Copilot, and agentic automation, including approved data use, human oversight, identity and access, logging, testing, monitoring, exception handling, operational ownership, and records-management considerations. Promote secure application delivery and appropriate DevOps and DevSecOps architecture practices, including CI/CD, release governance, testing, rollback, monitoring, and operational handoff considerations. Partner with Information Security, IT Operations, Application Deve