Salary: $134,500.00 – $160,000.00 Annually
Location : Boise City Hall, ID
Job Type: Full Time Regular
Job Number: 23 -06431
Department: IT Admin
Opening Date: 10/19/2023
Closing Date: 11/2/2023 12:00 PM Mountain
Summary Statement
Enterprise Architect serves as principal advisor to leadership on enterprise technology, data vision, strategy, and standards. Collaboratively leads the development of the city’s technology and data strategy, aligning technology solutions with city goals and objectives, forecasting cost, and enabling the development of roadmaps. Facilitates defining, maintaining, and aligning the technical, data, security, and application architectures. Responsible for architectural governance across the IT landscape and collaborates with department stakeholders to optimize technology investments. Process owner for establishing, maintaining, and overseeing standards governing the technology landscape, data stewardship of technology assets, business owner for enterprise architecture solutions, and facilitator of the Architecture Review Board.
This position works under administrative direction and is designated at will.
Essential Functions
- Develops, manages, and evolves the comprehensive city application, technology, data and security strategy by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Advises and assists leadership with technology and data recommendations. Provides well-informed recommendations for software solutions and technologies that align with the city’s present and future business needs.
- Utilizes cost forecasting to analyze and estimate the financial implications of proposed technology solutions and initiatives.
- Oversees and coaches those performing solution architect roles in all IT divisions to ensure proposed technology solutions comply with architecture strategies and standards. Manages architecture exception requests and approvals when required.
- Leads the cybersecurity staff in developing and executing the city’s information security program. Develops the city’s security vision and strategy and socializes the vision with IT and business leaders. Oversees the operations of the city’s cybersecurity products and solutions, and establishes the city’s security posture through policy, architecture, training and process development.
- Remains at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies, and ensures applications, infrastructure and data are architected for security, scalability and performance.
- Manages the city’s enterprise architecture by establishing, maintaining and overseeing architectural standards and guidelines.
- Prepares presentations, documents, diagrams, models and other materials to effectively communicate analyses, recommendations and designs to audiences including senior executives.
- Supervises the work of professional, management, technical, and/or other employees of a clearly delineated division or exercises independent authority over a critical function with citywide impact directly or through subordinate supervisors to ensure adequate resources are available for staff to perform their duties; ensures that assigned operations and activities comply with organization goals and objectives; and directs actions and results of major processes and programs and maintains controlling budget authority.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Employees in this position are authorized to recommend and/or effect the full range of duties (with appropriate managerial review), including hiring, performance evaluations, transferring, promoting, assigning of significant duties, rewarding, disciplining, and terminating employment
- exercising independent judgment to direct others work and have the authority to take corrective action
- utilize people skills to communicate, motivate, and direct or oversee a person, group, department, or organization.
- Performs other duties as assigned. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time.
Requirements
Required Knowledge, Experience, And Training
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, IT architecture, or other related fields and seven years of progressive experience in infrastructure solution architecture, development policy, and shared development for commercial or governmental organizations and five years of experience in business or systems implementation and transformation lifecycles.
Knowledge of:
- infrastructure and solution architecture development; systems implementation and transformation lifecycles
- the structure of an organization’s logical and physical data assets and the associated data management resources.
Ability to:
- communicate clearly and concisely to convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, in both written and oral forms
- identify issues, analyze potential solutions, and make informed decisions to address architectural challenges
- demonstrate leadership skills in guiding teams and influencing decisions
- manage multiple initiatives, maintain documentation, and streamline processes
- build graphical representations of infrastructure, technology, or enterprise architecture
- communicate effectively in the English language at a level necessary for efficient job performance
- perform all essential functions as assigned by an authorized employee, supervisor, and/or manager with or without reasonable accommodation.
Individuals must be capable of operating vehicles safely and have an acceptable driving record
Preferred Knowledge, Experience, And Training
Master’s degree in information technology, enterprise architecture, or related field and ten years of experience in infrastructure, solution architect development, policy and standards development for commercial or governmental organizations.Seven years of experience in business or systems implementation and transformation lifecycles.
One of the following: ITIL v3 Foundation certificates, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architectures or Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
Licensing And Other Requirements
Valid state-issued driver’s license.
Special Requirements
Applicants must be able to pass:
City of Boise background check processes which include a criminal history check and reference checks in accordance with the City of Boise Hiring Process Regulation
Driving Record Check
Education Verification
Criminal Justice Information System Background Check (CJIS)
Working Conditions
The physical effort characteristics and working environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Physical Efforts
While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally lifting/carrying up to 35 pounds and rarely lifting/carrying up to 50 pounds. Also, the employee is occasionally pushing/pulling up to 50 pounds. The noise level is rarely moderate. Work includes sensory ability to talk, hear, smell and touch. Work in this position also includes close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. Employees will sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, grasp, climb and balance. Position requires hand/finger dexterity.
Working Environment
The work environment will include inside conditions, areas of dust, odors, mist and gases or other airborne matter. Employees are exposed to mechanical and electrical hazards. Employees will also drive a vehicle as part of this position.
This position works: In the event of a cybersecurity incident, may play a role.
Top talent deserves top-notch benefits. The City is among the best in the Treasure Valley when it comes to the benefits and perks we offer our employees.
Most positions are eligible for the general benefits listed here; firefighters, police officers, senior managers, command staff, and directors may be offered other benefit plans.
Healthcare- ZERO premium medical coverage for you and your family:
- Low-cost dental and vision options.
- Post-employment health savings account.
Retirement and Investment Plans:
- PERSI retirement benefits
- 401(k) or 457b pre-tax investment options with employer match.
- 457b Roth after-tax investment options with no match
WellBeing Program:
- Up to $500 cash per year for participants.
- Alternative transportation incentives.
Paid Leave – City employees receive generous paid leave:
- 8 hours of vacation per month, and this increases the longer you stay with the City
- 11 paid holidays every year
- 8 hours of sick leave per month
- Six weeks Parental Leave
Life & Long Term Disability:
- Basic Life insurance at no cost to you
- Long Term Disability insurance at no cost to you
Other optional benefits:
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Supplemental Disability Insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Free local bus pass
- Corporate discount programs
- AFLAC
- Employee Assistance Program for short-term counseling on work, family, finances, and personal issues.
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Do you possess a valid state-issued driver’s license?
- Yes
- No
02
Please select which answer best describes your education in information technology, IT architecture, or other related fields
- Some College
- Associate Degree
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Masters Degree or higher
- No related education
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Please select the answer that best describes your progressive experience in infrastructure solution architecture, development policy, and shared development for commercial or governmental organizations
- 1-4 years of experience
- 4-6 years of experience
- 7 or more years of experience
- No related experience
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Do you have five years of experience in business or systems implementation and transformation lifecycles?
- Yes
- No
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This position requires passing a Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) background check. Have you ever been charged with a felony as an adult, within your lifetime?
- Yes
- No
Required Question