Provide a short description of the Position:
The Expert Software Architect is responsible for the end-to-end technical architecture of the Unemployment Services Modernization Program (UISIM). This role defines system architecture, ensures solution governance alignment, and maintains architectural consistency across Benefits, Appeals, Employer Services, and all shared domain components. The architect ensures secure data exchange, high volume throughput support, workflow orchestration, compliance with federal/state standards, modularity, and long-term maintainability.
Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate:
- Define and maintain the enterprise technical architecture across all UISIM components.
- Govern solution designs from both external vendors and internal ITS teams.
- Ensure alignment with statewide enterprise standards, cloud patterns, and security requirements.
- Validate integration designs, shared services patterns, and cross module workflow orchestration.
- Oversee architectural consistency across Benefits, Appeals, Employer Services, and supporting domain services.
- Support high-volume processing, data-exchange integrity, and secure system interactions.
- Review vendor architectural artifacts, APIs, and integration specifications.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to internal development teams and vendor engineers.
- Establish long-term architectural blueprints supporting modular enhancements.
- Ensure compliance with federal/state requirements such as IRS Pub. 1075, HIPAA, and CJIS
Position Mandatory Qualification (Per Attachment 7, Section 1.2.4)
Position Job Title: (Per Attachment 4)
Software Architect
Makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Designs multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large scale software system.
Position Skill Level: (Per Attachment 4)
Expert
84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.
Position Requested Qualifications (Per Attachment 7, Section 1.2.5)
- 96 months of experience in a enterprise architecture of systems, microservices, API design, and cloud platforms.
- 36 months of experience designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise scale Angular applications, including reusable components, responsive UI, state management, and REST API integration.
- 36 months of experience in architecture leadership roles including governance and cross-module integration.
- 24 months of experience in integrating enterprise systems with high-security data-exchange environments.
- 24 months of experience with GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, IAM, VPC SC, secure egress).
- 24 months of experience in high-compliance environments (IRS Pub 1075, CJIS, HIPAA).
- 24 months of experience designing architectural guardrails and integrity/security validation frameworks.
What type of software is typically used by the Agency?
Java, REST APIs, Microservices, SQL, GitHub/GitLab, API development/testing tools
What type of hardware is typically used by the Agency?
GCP, Windows, Linux