Job Overview

About the Role

• The Minnesota Department of Human Services is seeking a part-time Enterprise Architect to provide advanced IT strategy and planning work.
• The successful responder will provide technical guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices focused on enabling business and IT leadership to make investment decisions.
• The role involves working independently with little or no supervision and driving to resolution in situations with high ambiguity and confusion.

Responsibilities

• Ensure alignment with CMS's Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES) modularity vision and federal standards, including the Medicaid Enterprise Certification Lifecycle (MECL).
• Define the 'as is', 'to be', and 'future' architecture.
• Provide oversight of infrastructure, security, data, and application architecture.
• Analyze and translate business, information, and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve business objectives.
• Develop a consensus-based enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable, and in sync with ever-changing business needs.
• Develop a road map for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state, including operating in a bi-modal manner.
• Provide advice and guidance to IT leadership and management teams on the latest architecture principles and approach.
• Ensure alignment with CMS's Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES) modularity vision and federal standards, including the Medicaid Enterprise Certification Lifecycle (MECL).
• Provide knowledge transfer.

Required Qualifications

• Five (5) years' experience in an Enterprise Architect role.
• A Master's degree substitutes for three years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree substitutes for two years, or an Associate's degree substitutes for one year.
• Four (4) engagements lasting more than three (3) months in an Enterprise Architect role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering.
• Systems thinking – the ability to see how parts interact with the whole ('big picture' thinking).
• Knowledge of IT governance and operations.
• Knowledge of financial modeling as it pertains to IT investment.
• Interpersonal and leadership skills – servant leadership, collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
• Communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand.
• Project and program management planning and organizational skills.
• Time management and prioritization.

Required Skills & Technologies

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