Technical Solution Architect

Role Responsibilities

· Help shape and maintain solution architecture guidance across applications, integration, data,

· security, reporting, analytics, cloud, and operational components.

· Translate business outcomes and user needs into practical technical architectural options,

· technical guidance, and implementation decisions.

· Ensure that technical solution architectures are aligned with the desired experience and business

· vision and architecture, enable constituent/agency objectives and outcomes, and are performant,

· scalable, and extensible/flexible.

· Collaborate with experience architects and product managers to formulate and adapt technical

· strategies, architectures, and roadmaps to support iterative, agile, people centered product

· development.

· Review vendor solution architecture, technical design, development, and migration deliverables for

· alignment with the product/project strategies, roadmap, and outcomes, Commonwealth

· standards, security requirements, accessibility expectations, and implementation feasibility.

· Partner with EOTSS, A&F IT, product, experience design, business, data, security, accessibility,

· legal, and vendor teams to resolve technical design decisions and ensure the solution remains

· aligned with the Commonwealth's long-term vision, standards, and best practices.

· Advice on the balance of configurable product capabilities, custom development, integration

· services, data architecture, and modular platform components needed to deliver the EPIC vision.

· Collaborate hands on as needed with internal teams and vendors to solve technical challenges

· including working on technical prototypes and proofs of concepts.

· Support phased-release planning by identifying dependencies, technical constraints, architectural

· risks, transition needs, and opportunities for incremental value delivery.

· Guide integration planning with legacy systems, the Commonwealth's accounting and financial

· systems, vendor sales reporting systems, identity/access management, reporting platforms, and

· other relevant systems.

· Support legacy-system migration planning, including data mapping, data cleansing, data

· transformation, document migration, cutover planning, and validation approaches.

· Promote consistent documentation, architecture decision records, peer review, quality practices,

· automated testing, security-by-design, and maintainable solution patterns.

· Evaluate AI-enabled, automation, analytics, and development capabilities approved through

· project governance, privacy, security, accessibility, and applicable legal review.

· Help the project team understand technical tradeoffs, communicate architecture decisions clearly,

· and make choices that support long-term flexibility, maintainability, and value.

Minimum Qualifications

· Eight or more years of experience in IT delivery, systems implementation, software engineering,

· enterprise technology, or technology architecture.

· Five or more years as a technical solution architect, enterprise architect, technical lead,

· engineering lead, or similar role on complex enterprise systems.

· Five or more years’ experience working with cross-functional product teams applying an iterative,

· agile, people-centered product design and development approach.

· Experience translating business goals, user needs, and policy or operational requirements into

· practical architecture and technical guidance.

· Experience with cloud-based enterprise applications, modern integration approaches, APIs, data

· migration, security controls, accessibility considerations, and phased implementation.

· Experience reviewing vendor technical designs, development approaches, and implementation

· deliverables for feasibility, quality, security, maintainability, and alignment with business

· outcomes.

· Experience using or evaluating generative AI or AI-assisted tools to support requirements analysis,

· design review, documentation, development practices, testing, code review, data migration, or

· technical quality assurance.

· Strong written, verbal, facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.

· Ability to work across business and technical teams, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and build

· alignment in a complex project environment.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience with public-sector, procurement, ERP, financial, grants, licensing, permitting, benefits,

· or other workflow-heavy enterprise platforms.

· Experience helping organizations modernize from legacy systems to cloud-based or modular

· platforms.

· Experience with data mapping, data cleansing, data governance, reporting, analytics, and migration

· to modern platforms.

· Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST, Commonwealth security requirements, privacy controls,

· accessibility, records retention, and public-sector governance.

· Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery models, phased rollouts, test strategy, automated testing,

· performance testing, operational readiness, and transition planning.

· Experience evaluating AI-enabled capabilities, automation, analytics, reporting, search, or

· decision-support features in a governed enterprise environment.

· Experience designing or guiding systems that must serve multiple user communities, including

· internal operators, external business users, oversight users, and the public.

· Ability to challenge conventional approaches constructively and identify opportunities to build a

· more flexible, intuitive, and sustainable solution.