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Position: Enterprise Architect
Duration: 9 Months
Location: Minnesota (Remote work)
Description of Project:
The Minnesota Department of Human Services is seeking part-time Enterprise Architect to work on providing advanced IT strategy and planning work.
At a high level, the resource will be responsible for providing technical guidance, road maps, principles, standards and best practices focused on enabling business and IT leadership to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.
The successful responder will be expected to:
- 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 road map for 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 team on latest architecture principles and approach
- Provide strategic vision and thinking with focus on outcomes.
- Form close links with team members and stakeholders.
- Provide knowledge transfer.
Work must comply with the State-wide Enterprise Architecture, the State's Enterprise Security Policy and Standards, State-wide Project Management Methodology, and applicable industry and agency standards. Resource must be able to work independently, with little or no supervision and must be able to drive to resolution in situations with high ambiguity and confusion. Resource will report to the Information Systems Manager - Enterprise Architect Supervisor. Resource must be available as needed on an average of 20 hours per work week. For additional details on the request such as qualifications, tasks, and evaluation criteria, see the attachments found in the Buyer