Senior Architect - remote

Novalink Solutions; North Carolina; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions is seeking a Senior Architect to drive IT strategy and modernization. The role focuses on business-IT alignment, architectural governance, and leveraging Generative AI, RPA, and cloud services to enable digital transformation across multiple business units.

The ideal candidate will lead cross‑functional teams, define technology standards, and evaluate innovative solutions guided by enterprise objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience creating strategic technology plans and roadmaps.
• Strong ability to present business and technical concepts.
• Proven track record leading emerging technology analysis initiatives.
• Experience delivering architectures impacting critical business areas.
• Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate IT strategic planning with senior leadership and SMEs.
• Develop IT strategies and design guidelines across IT teams.
• Lead PoC initiatives using emerging technologies.
• Analyze business requirements and provide senior leadership with options and risks.
• Maintain a holistic view of strategy, information, and technology assets.
• Provide EA guidance for cloud modernization and AI initiatives.
• Prepare technical writings using standard tools.
• Collaborate with business strategists and SMEs across units.

Skills

Strategic planning

Enterprise Architecture

Generative AI

RPA

Cloud platforms

AWS

Azure

GCP

TOGAF

ABACUS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

ABACUS EA

Job description

Columbus, United States | Posted on 10/14/2026

• Actual Job Title 813717 - JFS - Senior Architect 2/SA2
• Job Type FT Contract
• Date Opened 10/14/2026
• Target Date 10/21/2026
• City Columbus
• State/Province Ohio
• Country United States
• Assigned Recruiter(s) Dinesh Mathi
• Number of Positions 1

Job Description

JFS OIS supports multiple business units. The hired Architect creates and leverages Business Capability Modelling artifacts, creates Customer Journey Maps as needed and facilitates Business and IT Strategic planning in collaboration with Business Relationship Managers and Senior Leadership. Architectural guidance must be provided for new projects and ensure that current projects follow the JFS technical and application standards and is in alignment with enterprise strategy. Conduct market research, Technology evaluation and tool comparison and operationalize modern technology and application standards. OIS is focused on Modernization and Cloud Smart Strategy execution projects, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), AI/ML including Virtual Assistants and Generative AI, in Family Assistance, Unemployment Compensation, Workforce Development, Community Support Services and other areas.

Job Overview: Roles and Responsibilities

• Facilitate and drive Business and IT Strategic Planning discussions with Senior Leadership, Business Relationship Managers and subject matter experts ensuring alignment with organization’s goals and objectives.
• Partner with IT staff and technology experts to create IT Strategy, establish technology standards and guidelines for design and implementation of projects
• Plan, Initiate and spearhead proof of concept initiatives using emerging technologies
• Partner with business and technology experts to understand business requirements, analyze market trends, conduct technology evaluation and comparison analysis and provide recommendations to senior leadership
• Maintain a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information and technology assets.
• Require Technical Architecture skills and experience in Generative AI, Conversational UI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable digital business transformation and provide guidance for modernization efforts.
• Technical writing leveraging Word, Powerpoint, Lucid Chart, Visio, Avolution ABACUS, Sharepoint
• The Architect will be working with business strategists’/process owners/SMEs comprised of Business Unit managers across Family Assistance, Unemployment Compensation, Workforce Development and various admin areas like Finance.SMEs are within OIS at various roles eg: Application Development managers/leads, Requirements teams, Client Partners, Operations leads. The Senior Architect role will be primarily aligned to one or more Business Units while providing backup support to others.

Scope of Activities

• Provide strategic consultation to assigned line-of-business (LOB) customers for business and IT strategies as well as in researching, internally marketing and enabling the use of standard technologies based on customer requirements.
• Create IT Strategies and guidelines by collaborating with subject matter experts across different IT teams
• Provide architectural input and technical consultation services to implement the strategies and guidelines in projects
• Participate in business opportunity identification and business innovation portfolio development by conducting research, leveraging emerging technologies and adhering to market trends.
• Participate in enterprise architecture development, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio and technical architecture and create models to drive informed business and IT decisions.
• Assess near‑term needs, using structured interview processes, to establish business priorities; consult with technical subject matter experts and develop alternative technical solutions; advise on options, risks, costs vs. benefits, and impact on other business processes and system priorities.
• Conduct informal learning sessions for the organization on developed strategies and cutting‑edge technologies
• Collaborate with other IT functional areas to remain informed of project status and inform LOB customer management of progress; conversely, keep IT's technology and service managers aware of key LOB customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts.
• Facilitate development of cross‑LOB (enterprise) solutions that combine knowledge of business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
• Collaborate with the enterprise program management office on reporting project status, issues, risks and benefits.

Skills and Credentials

• Experience developing strategic technology plans and roadmaps, business capability models and customer journey maps
• Ability to present and communicate both business and technical concepts
• Ability to lead and conduct emerging technology analysis initiatives
• Experience in leading efforts to create technology solutions and architectures impacting critical areas of the business
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups
• Ability to establish and maintain a high‑level of customer trust and confidence.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
• Ability to think critically and solve problems
• Demonstrated technology skills across multiple IT domains (e.g. application, security, infrastructure)
• Strong consultative skills at a cross‑functional level

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience; master’s degree preferred.
• Five to seven years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years’ Enterprise Architecture experience and two years’ Solution Architecture experience.
• Technical Experience, leading AI implementations that include Generative AI, RPA and Virtual Assistants
• Experience providing EA Governance for Cloud modernization efforts
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Solution Architecture Experience using AWS, GCP and (/or) Azure ecosystems for AI and Robotic Process Automation technologies such as UI Path
• Enterprise Architecture experience using ABACUS EA tool is preferred

Requirements

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information systems or related discipline, or equivalent & extensive related project experience; master’s pref
Required

TOGAF Certification preferred
Highly desired

5-7 of experience in IT, with a minimum of 2 years’ Enterprise Architecture experience and 2 years’ Solution Architecture exp
Required
7
Years

Technical Experience, leading AI implementations that include Generative AI, RPA and Virtual Assistants
Required

Experience providing EA Governance for Cloud modernization efforts
Required

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
Required

Solution Architecture Experience using AWS, GCP and (/or) Azure ecosystems for AI and Robotic Process Automation technologies such as UI Path
Required

Enterprise Architecture experience using ABACUS EA tool is preferred
Highly desired