Enterprise Architect

Position Description:
The IT/Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in aligning state agencies need with technology solutions that
drive innovation and manage/shape the overall IT strategy.The position has responsibility for system's analysis and
design review which includes assuring that business problems are fully understood, detailed requirements are
investigated and proposed, and to collaborate with both internal and external teams to create architecture design.
One of the key responsibilities of the position is to create architectural models/diagrams of existing agency
applications from multiple disciplines (business, systems, data, and technology) by gathering information from
various sources within an organization and through an iterative approach, gain the necessary insight to accurately
depict the architecture within each discipline.

The IT/Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in aligning state agencies' needs with technology solutions that
drive innovation and manage/shape the overall IT strategy.
Responsibilities:
Systematic review of the business, security, service, and information systems domain components of a
proposed solution to a business (agency) need/problem
Review enterprise IT Projects for business alignment with state and agency goals, as well as the alignment
with state and agency IT goals, objectives and strategies
Review Statewide IT Procurements, inclusive of procurement artifacts (e.g. Requests for Proposals,
Requests for Quotations, Invitations for Bids) and related enterprise IT project information to assure
alignment between business requests/requirements and available architectural standards, technologies
and solutions.
Review Statewide IT Procurement Awards to affirm best solutions/vendor to meet both current and future
state/agency needs
Collaborate with an enterprise-wide stakeholder group to assess, develop, and maintain the enterprise
architecture strategy and governance in alignment with the state of North Carolina's goals and objectives
Evaluate current technology infrastructure and applications to identify areas of improvement and
opportunity
Establish and uphold state-wide enterprise architecture principles, guidelines, and best practices to ensure
consistency, interoperability, security, and optimization
Assess potential risks associated with initiatives as it is related to enterprise architecture and work with
stakeholders to improve, protect and secure
Review, guide and support enterprise-wide IT projects and IT procurements governed by enterprise
architecture
Evaluate third-party vendors and solutions crucial to the success of state projects and procurements,
ensuring adherence to standards and integrations to existing solutions
Implement architectural standards, guidance and frameworks while keeping up with emerging technology
trends

Required skills and experience in following:
Demonstrated experience working as a senior level technologist in a complex, large- scale
organization - 7 years
Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) - 7 years
Experience of enterprise IT infrastructure, applications, data management/integrations, systems
development, and business processes - 7 years
Demonstrated experience with IT governance, and the ability to define IT principles, standards
and framework that support the overall governance model - 7 years
Demonstrated experience aligning enterprise architecture practice to business strategy, and the
ability to map business strategy to IT capabilities - - 7 years