IT Solution Architect

The Emery Company, LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Emery Company, LLC is seeking a senior IT Architect to lead modernization and transformation programs across applications and infrastructure. You will define strategy, align roadmaps with enterprise goals, and engage with IT leaders and business stakeholders to drive secure, scalable solutions.

The role requires extensive experience in public sector-style environments, PMP certification, and strong leadership to coordinate cross-functional teams in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience leading large complex projects supporting Transformation and modernization goals and objectives.
• PMP/PMI Certification that is current.
• Minimum 10 years of experience with information technology or application support, design or analysis and/or project management.
• Experience with complex environments involving many stakeholders across infrastructure, applications, databased and technology toolsets with ambiguous requirements.
• Minimum 3 years in public service industry, especially state and local government within the past 7 years, supporting cross-functional teams and senior-level stakeholders.
• CJIS experience is desired.
• Strong verbal communication skills for high-level presentations.
• Proven ability to deliver excellent client service and maintain relationships.
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts, workflows, and systems.
• Highly organized, independent or team-oriented in fast-paced environments.
• Strong leadership and strategic planning skills to drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Knowledge of ITIL and ITSM is desired.
• Experience managing shared services teams.
• Ability to influence other people and organizations to balance competing needs.

Responsibilities

• Modernization: Define, build and align modernization models and strategy/tools with industry best practice.
• Assessments: Complete initial assessments to document current landscape and identify in-flight projects.
• Strategy/Vision/Prioritization: Develop an architectural roadmap aligning with mission and priorities.
• Hybrid Multi-cloud: Compare on-premise and cloud models and their benefits for security and speed to value.
• Collaboration/Partnership: Act as trusted advisor to IT leaders and executives and coordinate cross-functional roadmaps.
• Disaster Recovery: Understand DR plans and backup strategies; align with DR templates and tools.
• Compliance/Standard and Governance: Ensure IT governance aligned with standards and measures.
• Knowledge Management and Enablement: Conduct workshops and document work products for knowledge transfer.

Skills

Modernization strategy

Architecture governance

Stakeholder leadership

Hybrid multi-cloud

Disaster recovery planning

ITIL / ITSM

Knowledge management

PMP / PMI certification

Public sector / government experience

Leadership and strategic planning

Communication

Client relationships

Influence and negotiation

Job description

• Modernization: Define, build and align modernization models and strategy/tools with industry best practice such as 6 R’s (Rehost, Re-platform, Replace, Retire etc), Viewpoints: Architecture -Monolith/SOA/Microservice, Physical Servers layer – VMs/Cloud, Delivery-Waterfall/Agile/DevOps
• Assessments: Complete initial assessments to understand and document current landscape to support the supporting applications and infrastructure. Identify any in-flight projects; Assess change readiness levels
• Strategy/Vision/Prioritization: Develop an architectural roadmap related to the modernization and migration efforts around Application and Infrastructure solutions; Developing an overall strategy that aligns with mission and vision. Identify short-term and longer-term initiatives and priorities
• Hybrid Multi-cloud: Propose on-premise and cloud related design and compare/contrast on on-premise Hybrid cloud models and how they enhance the stance around innovation, security posture, benefits, and speed to value. Government cloud focuses on Microsoft Azure, AWS clouds.
• Collaboration/Partnership and Stakeholder Leadership: Acts as a trusted advisor and builds and maintains relationships with the director and other IT leaders and executives to develop a clear understanding of enterprise needs; ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs and can respond with agility to changing industry and organization priorities. As such, the Architect will communicate and coordinate with all areas of the Information Systems department, including infrastructure, applications, database administrators, business owners and vendors; also work with customers, partners, and other critical stakeholders to develop and align architecture roadmaps
• Disaster Recovery Strategy/Approach: May need to work closely with IT and business teams to understand current state of organization’s application and infrastructure solutions and DR plans, including any hot, warm or cold DR sites, templates, documentation, and related technology assets and tools. It is desired (not required) candidate is able to get clear understanding of the current backup strategy, designs, processes, and tools.
• Compliance/Standard and Governance: Ensure compliance according to Technology Information Security standards and best practices. Establish governance processes related to modernization and transformation initiatives aligned with the standards, processes, plans, tools, and measures
• Knowledge Management and Enablement: Conduct workshops to provide and get input around important concepts and decisions. Document and align work products with key stakeholders as necessary. Ensure a process that enables knowledge transfer and support for less senior employees.

Work Experience/Qualification

• Minimum 10 years of experience leading large complex projects supporting Transformation and modernization goals and objectives
• PMP/PMI Certification that is current
• Minimum 10 years of experience with information technology or application support, design or analysis and/or project management
• Experience working in a complex environment with significant numbers of stakeholders across infrastructure, applications, databased and technology toolset with ambiguous or unclear requirements
• Minimum 3 years of experience working in public service industry, especially state and local government within the past 7 years, supporting cross-functional teams influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders effectively across the organization and within complex contexts
• Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) experience is desired
• Strong verbal communication skills, including the ability to present verbally to high-level stakeholders.
• Proven ability to provide excellent customer service and maintain client/professional relationships/partnerships.
• Capacity for quickly understanding new and different concepts/approaches, workflows, and systems.
• Works in a highly organized manner, independently or within a team, in a fast-paced, innovative, and continuously changing environment with minimal supervision.
• Strong leadership and strategic planning skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional projects and initiatives.
• Knowledge of ITIL and IT Service Management is desired.
• Demonstrated skills in managing shared services teams
• Demonstrated ability to constructively influence other people and organizations to drive and achieve objectives, goals and balance competing needs

Education (Required):

Certification (Required):

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Formal Architecture Training (such as TOGAF or similar industry certification) required

Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL