Hybrid - IT Solution Architect (IT Architect / Consultant 1)

What You'll Do:

The Solution Architect analyzes business needs, identifies tech solutions, and designs a comprehensive plan for implementation. They collaborate closely with various individuals such as developers, project managers, and analysts to ensure effective implementation of the solution, achieving the stakeholder's objectives.

Job responsibilities will include:

• Defining and documenting the overall solution, utilizing industry-recognized patterns and best practices.
• Working together with stakeholders to comprehend their needs and requirements.
• Evaluating and selecting appropriate technologies, patterns, and platforms for the solution.
• Developing and maintaining architectural standards and best practices under the guidance of the agency architectural roadmap.
• Ensuring that solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Working as a skilled hands-on .NET developer capable of deep collaboration with developers and QA to implement coding and testing artifacts with high quality and velocity.
• Stays up to date with the current and emerging technologies, tooling, and patterns along with proposing changes where needed.
• Providing technical guidance and support to developers and QA.
• Promote the use of patterns (when and why) and develop reference implements for commonly used patterns (how).
• Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Identifying and mitigating potential risks and issues related to the solution.

Currently teleworking up to 80% of the time, subject to change.

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees*. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website ! Our benefits package includes:

• Medical Coverage
• Free Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care leave
• Education and Development Opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public Retirement Systems ( such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS ) & Optional Deferred Compensation ( Ohio Deferred Compensation )

*Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors. The Agency Contact listed above will be able to provide specific benefits information for this position.

Qualifications

The following are the minimum qualifications for this position. For further consideration, applicants must clearly identify how qualifications are met within the education and/or experience sections of the application.

The ideal candidate, at minimum, must have the following:

• Education: Core undergraduate program in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent work experience AND
• Experience: Minimum 4 years combined work experience in any combination of the following: assisting with development and updates to the strategic Information Technology plan, participating in work groups to author Information Technology plan by discipline/program team and/or leading activities to achieve project tasks/meet deadlines, and performing solutions design for assigned discipline/program team (e.g., software development, infrastructure, database administration, security) including 2 years technology related work experience as specified by the agency position description and vacancy/job posting.

Note: the official position description on file with the designated agency is to reflect, in the minimum acceptable characteristics, the required technology related experience. Only those applicants possessing the required technology related experience listed in the position description are to be considered for any vacancies posted. The vacancy/job posting should also only list the required technology related experience commensurate with the position in question.

Additional preferred qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a C# .NET Developer.
• 5+ years of proven work experience as a solution or technical architect.

Job Skills: Information Technology, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Customer Focus, Decision Making, Written Communication