Technical Advisor #1007169

Dexian; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian is seeking a Technical Advisor for the Offender-Based Information System (OBIS) Modernization Project based in Tallahassee, Florida. The role involves overseeing technical documentation and serving as a primary liaison between project teams.

Candidates should have at least seven years of IT experience and a strong background in information systems, networking theory, and enterprise architecture standards. Experience in cloud migration and modernization of legacy systems is highly preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of seven years of IT experience in technical specialty areas.
• Experience in architecting optimal cloud migration solutions.

Responsibilities

• Be the principal line of communication for the OBIS Modernization Project.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation and standards.
• Serve as a technical liaison between users and service vendors.

Skills

IT experience

Information systems

Networking theory

Enterprise architecture

Application integrations

Cloud migration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

IBM DB2

SQL Server

Azure

Amazon Web Services

Job description

The Technical Advisor on the Offender-Based Information System (OBIS) Modernization Project team will serve as the principal line of communication for the project and technical teams. The duties and responsibilities of this position are as follows:

Responsibilities

• Gain a detailed understanding of the OBIS Modernization Project scope directly after onboarding.
• Create the technical architecture documents of all the interacting applications in the current integrated solutions, depicting applications, interfaces, and information flow currently in place.
• Document the current architectural standards followed by the mainframe, web, and mobile solutions currently in place.
• Create the architectural standards for the technologies to be used in the to‑be solutions for the Department’s infrastructure and security requirement compliance.
• Enforce the Department’s enterprise architecture models, representations, capabilities, and components to meet the business and technology activities.
• Validate if the proposed technical solutions meet the Department’s requirements.
• Serve as the technical liaison between Department business users and contracted service vendors.
• Provide hands‑on leadership for the design of re‑engineered processes.
• Provide periodic reports to internal and external stakeholders on the compliance of new solutions and processes in relation to enterprise architecture standards.
• Maintain all technical architectural artifacts in a shared repository with version history.
• Participate in business requirements gathering sessions.
• Lead the development of business process improvements with recommendations for enterprise architecture standards.
• Work independently as part of a larger cross‑functional team.

Required Experience

A bachelor’s degree or master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or four (4) years of equivalent work experience is required.

Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year‑for‑year basis when applicable.

• A minimum of seven (7) years of IT experience within one (1) or more technical specialty areas, preferably supporting large-scale, multi‑vendor or outsourced environments.
• Deep understanding of information systems, networking theory, and enterprise architecture standards relevant to data, application, or infrastructure domains.
• Experience supporting enterprise‑level modernization efforts, preferably involving:
• Data warehouse environments (e.g., International Business Machines Database 2 [IBM DB2], Structured Query Language [SQL] Server platforms).
• Software modernization or transformation initiatives.
• Experience in modernizing and migrating mainframe applications from legacy systems.
• Experience in architecting optimal solutions for migrating applications to the cloud, preferably Azure or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in containerization of applications.
• Building application integrations using Application Programming Interfaces.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in modernizing and migrating mainframe applications from legacy systems.
• Experience in architecting optimal solutions for migrating applications to the cloud, preferably Azure or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in containerization of applications.
• Building application integrations using Application Programming Interfaces.