IT Solutions Architect

Job Description:
IT Solutions Architect

Purpose:

This position is responsible for defining and designing architecture that drives the City towards targeted outcomes by leveraging existing and innovative technology to enable the City's future-state business capabilities and business models. This position aligns IT and enterprise strategy, maintains business capability models to reflect new or improved processes or IT systems, creates common standards to ensure integrity of the models, and influences enterprise strategy.

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:

Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

• Promotes digital business initiatives and identifies potential impact on the City's critical financial metrics and economic architectures.
• Supports business and technology innovation that drives the City's objectives.
• Engages key business stakeholders and product managers to facilitate both strategy and innovation planning.
• Collaborates with stakeholders involved in digital strategy and digital innovation to develop an IT investment roadmap.
• Creates deliverables that illustrate how to strategically move the business forward.
• Works with enterprise architects and key organizational stakeholders to define a strategic plan for leveraging integrated architecture as part of the enterprise architecture.
• Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Provides strategic consultation to product managers in defining or designing business capabilities, processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing, selling and enabling technologies based on business and end-user requirements.
• Participates in enterprise architecture development, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio and technical architecture, and champions the balance of flexibility and risk.
• Facilitates agreement on organizational work models and processes to meet business requirements.
• Seeks ways to apply new technology to, and reuse existing technology for, business processes.
• Researches and provides information on technical trends and competitors' practices relevant to assigned products and value streams.

Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:

May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of business architecture tools and techniques, including strategy on a page, strategic planning, business model canvas, disruptions and trends, balance scorecard, economical modeling, risks and interdependencies, process models, business capability modeling, ecosystems modeling, customer and user profiling, journey maps, and human-centric design.
• Knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid).
• Knowledge of existing, new and emerging technologies and being able to practically incorporate them into new business designs and business models.
• Knowledge of architecture methodologies (e.g., SABSA, Zachman, TOGAF) and modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate).
• Knowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing business processes, functions and organizational structures.
• Knowledge of facilitation and organization change management.
• Skill in analytical and conceptual skills and proven ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
• Knowledge of finance, accounting, valuation and metrics development.
• Skill in statistical and information analysis.
• Skill in financial analysis, architecture evaluation, solutions delivery orchestration, project management, road mapping, risk management, interdependency management, agile methodologies, information security, cloud computing infrastructure, data architecture skills.
• Ability to be organizationally savvy, understanding of the political climate of the City and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to enable future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted business outcomes.
• Ability to communicate, influence and persuade - both business and IT leaders as well as peers.
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams, with the proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to leverage intellectual curiosity to inform solutions and innovate.
• Ability to take responsibility for personal growth and acquire strategies for gaining new knowledge, behaviors and skills.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation with a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of experience in a related field.

• Experience may substitute for education for up to four (4) years.

• Graduation with a Master's degree from an accredited college or university in a related field may substitute for two (2) years of experience.

Licenses and Certifications Required:

None.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with implementing and architect enterprise Maximo application upgrades and/or feature packs.

• Experience providing complex solutions for enterprise Maximo using available tools and updating architecture diagrams to reflect changes.

• Experience supporting and maintaining enterprise Maximo versions 7.6.1.3 and higher.

• Experience developing and supporting complex interfaces and architectural diagrams between enterprise applications.

• Experience utilizing Maximo's Application Designer and Automation Scripting to apply complex configurations for business units.

• Experience configuring Maximo Start Centers, KPIs, domains and/or templates.

• Experience managing Maximo security groups and user licenses.

• Experience providing support on applications that direct data to Maximo.

Notes to Candidate:

Austin Energy's Technology and Data - Applications Division has an exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Solutions Architect for the Work/Asset/Financial Management team. The ideal candidate's work history shall reflect an ability to provide complex solutions and support an enterprise Maximo system. We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated ability to maintain and enhance our existing enterprise application environments to improve usability, performance, reliability and scalability.

The position's key responsibilities include modifying Maximo applications using Maximo's Application Designer tool, creating complex Maximo workflows, developing and maintaining architectural diagrams, supporting Maximo interfaces between enterprise applications, utilizing Automation Scripting, managing upgrades/feature packs, configuring new modules, managing security groups and user licenses.

Work Location:

• Austin Energy Headquarters, 4815 Mueller Blvd., Austin, Texas 78723

Days and Hours:

• Monday through Friday. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• 40 Hour Work Week - Telework up to 95%
• Additional work hours may be required to support the 24-hour Utility operations, which may include evenings, weekends, holidays, inclement weather, and emergency closures.

Work Schedule:

This has been designated as a Critical Employee position. Critical Employees are considered necessary and vital and support activities that impact City or department operations. This work can be done while at a designated work site or while working at an alternate work location. Critical employees who are able to work at an alternative work location are required to do so. Schedules may be modified and employees may be reassigned to another area during extraordinary situations or emergency conditions to provide essential services.

Salary:

$89,880.00 - $115,100 annually, depending on qualifications and experience.

Employment Application:

The City of Austin employment application is an official document; incomplete applications will not be considered. Please be sure to detail on the application all current and previous employment that you wish to be considered as part of your qualifications.

The Employment Record should be completed with job titles, employment dates, job duties, functions, and responsibilities for each position held. Starting salary will be based on overall relevant experience from your application.

Résumés will not be accepted and statements such as "see résumé" will not be accepted. You may use "N/A" for fields that are not applicable.

Please note that Austin Energy may close the job posting at any time after 7 days from the date of the initial advertisement. Once the job posting has closed, applications cannot be changed.

Assessments:

Your skill level in some of the competency areas for this job may be assessed through skills testing.

If you are selected as a top candidate:

• Verification of your education (which may include high school graduation or GED, undergraduate and/or graduate degrees) will be required. You must provide proof of education from an accredited organization/institution.

• If you are identified as a top candidate and are in the military or a veteran, you will need to provide a copy of your DD-214 prior to confirming a start date.

• This position requires a criminal background investigation.

Good Standing Employees:

Employees, in Good Standing, who are candidates within the department/division that the position resides and who meet the minimum and all of the preferred qualifications (if any) of the position will be included in the initial interview. Department/division employees must remain in Good Standing through the Top Candidate Selection phase at which time the Good Standing status will be re-verified.

Fair Labor Standards Act:

• This position is classified as EXEMPT (Salaried). Exempt employees are not eligible for overtime compensation.

Travel:
If you are selected for this position and meet the Driver Safety Standards in the City of Austin Driver Safety Program, you may drive when necessary to multiple locations as part of your regular job duties. Otherwise, you are responsible for getting to and from these locations.

Important Note to Applicants:
Please be aware that the Job Posting Close Date reflects the final day to apply, but the posting will close at 11:59 PM the day before the date listed. All application steps, including attachments and submission, must be fully completed before that time.

We also recommend that you save or print a copy of the job posting for your records. Once a posting has closed, it will no longer be viewable in the system.

"A valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. is required for this position."