Software Solutions Architect

Job Title: - Software Solutions Architect

Job Location / Company:- Position location: Lansing, MI. Hybrid Role with 2 days onsite from day 1 - Tuesday and Wednesday Local candidates ONLY

Contract or Direct: Long term contract

Minimum of 5 years of experience for the skills listed below:• Work closely with DTMB and Vendor Development, Infrastructure, and Service Delivery teams to understand their needs and ensure the best cross agency standard is implemented. • Assist development teams to implement the standards into business applications. Investigate new technology and techniques that should be developed into an agency enterprise architecture standard.• Operate as business savvy technical leader across the organization. Influence development teams to design high-quality technical solutions that fit the Enterprise Architecture and standards. Educate application development managers, developers, and business analyst on State Enterprise Architecture Standards.• Participate in the development of RFPs. Assist in deployment and management of end-user reporting tools and platforms. Work with IT and business project teams to understand reporting and data warehousing requirements and propose solutions. Document and provide knowledge transfer to the rest of the Enterprise Reporting Team for all solutions. • Drive the identification, development, and implementation of key new standards in areas such as: Performance Testing, Security, Event Management, Web UI Framework, .NET Design Standards, Application to Application Communication, Caching, etc.

Citizenship:Must be US Citizen

Enterprise Architect, DTMB Agency Services Supporting EGLE, DNR, and MDARDDTMB Agency Services needs a Solution Architect 5 to support multiple modernization initiatives for theEnvironment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Department of Natural Resources, and MichiganDepartment of Agriculture and Rural Development. This position works across ApplicationDevelopment, Service Delivery, and Infrastructure to identify, research, discuss, design, and implementkey enterprise architecture standards. This individual will work with multiple project teams and variousbusiness areas to provide guidance to maximize value of technical solutions. The team is focused onmodernization of legacy applications, performance tuning of environments, guidance in procuring thebest solution for the agency needs and supporting the Business Relationship Manager with division goalsto best serve the agencies.This individual needs to be experienced with independently learning new applications, working withbusiness users to understand business rules related to data and completing analysis of system datarelated to transformation and cleansing in support of data migration efforts. Additionally,comprehensive knowledge and experience with API protocols, Cloud Architecture, Containerization arerequired. As bonus, the individual would have some knowledge and experience in the implementationof AI ChatBots or Generative AI.Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years as an Enterprise Architect or similar role.At the discretion of the resource manager, this position may include remote work, but candidate shouldplan to be available to report to a Lansing, MI job location in accordance with DTMB Agency Serviceswork location policies.