Engagement Type: Contract
Location: Dover
Duration: 6 Months
Short Description :
The Senior Technical Architecture Specialist (STAS) is the project SME that is responsible for evaluation of future projects to determine applicable policy direction and historical approach.
Complete Description:
The Senior Technical Architecture Specialist (STAS) is a technical expert responsible for planning project direction in collaboration with various State Agencies as they relate to future project planning.
This role is one where the ideal candidate will seek to identify key enterprise IT trends, products and services beyond State technology boundaries to the ever-evolving IT practices in the private sector.
This role may interface with Department/Agency heads, Directors and division managers to ensure communication and technical scope is accomplished with the goal of defining overall system needs and architectural challenges.
A qualified candidate will have worked with technical architecture including, but not limited to: GIS, ERPs, CASE Management, Infrastructure and application design.
An ideal candidate will have experience in managing projects and policy as it relates to governmental projects.
An ideal candidate will extensive experience in understanding and implementing broad policies and procedures designed to accommodate enterprise architectural environments.
This role will involve planning, configuring, documenting and testing the architectural design of a system or platform solution in support of new projects and services. This individual will be responsible for identifying IT Best practices.
This individual is responsible for setting the technical approach and direction and implementation for work. The Senior Technical Architecture Specialist provides technical design expertise, defines what technical requirements are needed to support defined business requirements, participates in detailed design and code reviews, reviews system performance issues, reviews test plans, and provides technical guidance to development experts and vendors.
The Senior Technical Architecture Specialist will interface with Executive Sponsors, Group Leads, and Lead Functional Architects to convey infrastructure requirements, plan, and schedule deployment of tasks, and resolve any issues that impact the deployment of the Application Delivery systems that cross agencies, divisions and may include federally integrated projects.
Years of Relevant Experience: 5 to 8 years
Preferred Education: 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study and 1 to 2 years project management experience
Role Description:
All roles specified in STAS1 plus the following:
•Architect systems and design infrastructure/applications for industry specific roles that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
•Architect/implement technologies that require GIS Expertise.
•May interact with executive level business users or technical experts.
•May function as an expert related to architectural best practices.
Skills:
Skills
Required/Desired
Amount of Experience
Experience evaluating architecture
Required
4 Years
Experience evaluating designs and solutions
Required
4 Years
Exp evaluating solutions for compliance to technology standard/policies
Required
4 Years
Prior work lead teams' technical strategy, direction and approach
Required
4 Years
Prior experience architecting solutions that integrate across systems
Required
3 Years
Technical architecture and design including hardware/software integration
Required
4 Years
Facilitation of meetings
Required
4 Years
Work with executive stakeholders
Highly Desired
2 Years
Prior formal Project management
Highly Desired
2 Years
Work with Enterprise Architectures
Highly Desired
2 Years
Prior experience in negotiation and mediation
Highly Desired
4 Years
Analyzing new technologies and trends
Highly Desired
2 Years
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Required
4 Years
Questions:
Question 1: Is candidate able to work in Dover 100% of the time?
Question 2: Please list projects where the candidate has had experience as an architect on State or Federal Government projects (from the governmental side).
Question 3: Please list projects where candidate had experience qualifying projects based on best practices and existing development guidelines.
Question 4: Please list projects where the candidate was responsible for mediating/facilitating project teams that were from different groups/departments. These departments should be under different levels of management.
Question 5: Please list projects where the candidate had leadership responsibilities as part of a role as an architect.