We are:
Maven Group, LLC. was formed to bring experience fueled ingenuity to advancing our customer missions and goals through strategic use of technology. We have developed a niche for bringing an independent, informed perspective to assessment of our customer's infrastructure, innovative portfolio solutions, and targeted support for the implementation of those solutions.

You are:

An IT Enterprise Architect I who thrives on designing systems and translating functional business requirements for technology-fueled solutions conforming to relevant standards.

Your job may engage your skills and knowledge such as:

  • Knowledge of IT architecture and design constraints/processes including platforms, application dependency systems, network topology, interoperability, service orientation frameworks, and security/compliance standards (NIST, IRS 1075, HIPAA).
  • Experience in requirements identification and management processes.
  • Experience as a technical leader on large projects.
  • Experience developing system functional designs.
  • Competent technical writer.
  • Experience in at least one enterprise architecture domain: Application/Integration, Information/Data, Technical/Infrastructure, Business Architecture.
  • Working knowledge of project management principles.
  • Solid verbal and written communication skills.
  • Active conflict management skills.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
  • Ability to lead and work in a team environment

Examples of work you may perform include:

  • Applying effective design principles and communicate complex and detailed information with business and IT professionals across the State.
  • Aligning business strategies to IT strategies through an Enterprise Architecture framework and discipline.
  • Establishing maturity models, roadmaps, and sustainability models of current and future state vision.
  • Analyzing, planning, designing, and providing domain-specific leadership to IT projects and implementation of Information Systems.
  • Contributing to standards development and documentation.
  • Ensuring architecture domains are appropriately aligned with business requirements and ready for future scalability, interoperability, and agility.
  • Participating in business and strategy development.
  • Consulting with managers and technical support staff to ensure systems conform to and align with state Enterprise Architecture.
  • Coordinating migration plans for agency and department IT infrastructure.
  • Assisting in determining methods to leverage existing resources for IT planning goals and initiatives.
  • Providing support for project plans by analyzing project needs and comparing them to existing systems.
  • Assisting in development of project plans at the agency/department and enterprise level.
  • Consulting with business owners, project managers, and IT managers to ensure compliance with architecture, standards, policies, and methodologies.
  • Identifying and reporting on architecture deficiencies.
  • Creating and maintaining Enterprise Architecture artifacts, models, and processes.

Specific Qualifications

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science AND one (1) year or more in IT architecture and design processes/constraints
    OR
  • Associate’s degree in computer science AND two (2) years or more in IT architecture and design processes/constraints
    OR
  • High school diploma or equivalent AND four (4) years or more in IT architecture and design processes/constraints

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in business administration, public administration, information technology, or project management.

Special Requirements:

  • Successful candidate must pass a background investigation applicable to the position before hiring.