Solutions Architect (9976) - Department of Technology

About the role

The Department of Technology – Enterprise Applications division seeks a Solutions Architect, a senior technical leader responsible for guiding the City’s technical strategy, integration architecture, and system interoperability for City systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for integration and system architecture, ensuring consistent data exchange and interoperability across departments.
• Lead architectural decision-making for connecting platforms with City systems, including legacy platforms and City infrastructure (API gateway, cloud, and data platforms).
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards covering integrations, data exchange, identity, document management, and API design.
• Design, prototype, build, and maintain applications, integrations, and intelligent (AI-enabled) solutions across the technology stack.
• Define the integration layer that decouples City systems and user interfaces from platform specific logic, ensuring long-term flexibility.
• Ensure alignment with citywide strategies for cloud, cybersecurity, privacy, and digital transformation.
• Architect the system landscape including data synchronization, workflow coordination, data pipelines, document management, and API/event-driven integrations.
• Occasionally perform technical prototyping, configuration, or proof-of-concept work to validate integration approaches or architectural assumptions.
• Guide implementation partners and vendors to ensure architecture compliance and long-term sustainability.
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities, including autonomous/agent-based pilots, for alignment with organizational needs.
• Define operational standards for integrations, including monitoring, performance, security, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with DT engineering and operations to ensure long-term platform readiness and support.
• Partner with IT leadership, business owners to ensure solutions align with redesigned workflows and data governance needs.
• Act as a liaison across City departments to ensure technical consistency and alignment.

Qualifications

• Education: Possession of an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field from an accredited college or university OR its equivalent in terms of total course credits/units [i.e., at least sixty (60) semester or ninety (90) quarter credits/units with a minimum of twenty (20) semester or thirty (30) quarter credits/units in Computer Science, Engineering or a closely-related field].
• Experience: Five (5) years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution design, or technical leadership roles.
• Substitution: Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis (up to a maximum of two (2) years). One (1) year is equivalent to thirty (30) semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units with a minimum of 10 semester / 15 quarter units in one of the fields above or a closely related field.

Benefits

Competitive pay, benefits, and retirement options. Career growth opportunities through training, internal mobility, and subsidized education. Diverse work environment in a diverse city.

Pay

USD 167804 - USD 211094 - yearly

Schedule

Full-time