Tech

Core Tasks

• Provide strategic and architectural support representing Design Serivces and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.

• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.

• Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.

• Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.

• Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.

• Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.

• Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.

• Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.

• Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).

• Project contributor representing architecture and participates in project plan development.

• Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.

• Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.

• Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.

• Build automation into systems to drive both orchestration and analysis.