Title: Enterprise Architect
Employee Classification: Enterprise Architect
Campus: University of North Texas - System Administration
Division: SYS-IT Shared Services
SubDivision-Department: SYS-IT Shared Services
Department: SYS-Information Technology-925000
Job Location: Remote
Salary: Commensurate with experience
FTE: 1.000000
Retirement Eligibility:
About Us - Values Overview:
Welcome to the University of North Texas System. The UNT System includes the University of North Texas in Denton and Frisco, the University of North Texas at Dallas and UNT Dallas College of Law, and the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. We are the only university system based exclusively in the robust Dallas-Fort Worth region. We are growing with the North Texas region, employing more than 14,000 employees, educating a record 49,000+ students across our system, and awarding nearly 12,000 degrees each year.
We are one team comprised of individuals who are committed to excellence, curiosity and innovation. We are transforming lives and creating economic opportunity through education. We champion a people-first values-based culture where We Care about each other and those we serve. We believe that we are Better Together because we foster an inclusive environment of respect, belonging, and access for all. We demonstrate Courageous Integrity through setting exceptional standards and acting in the best interest of our communities. We are encouraged to Be Curious about opportunities for learning, creating, discovering, and innovating, and are encouraged to learn from failure. Show Your Fire by joining our team and exhibiting your passion and pride in your work as part of our UNT System team.
Learn more about the UNT System and how we live our values at www.UNTSystem.edu.
Department Summary
System IT is a component of The University of North Texas System. The mission of System IT is simple: to be the best at delivering customer-aligned IT solutions and services. Our services are provided to all member institutions using an IT shared services governance model.
System IT provides the primary technology used by all campuses to support their operations. These include: shared resources of data centers, computing hardware, software applications, network and voice communications, collaboration and productivity capabilities, central web services, risk management, and security and compliance services. As a department, we strive to provide the most professional personnel possible to serve our campus constituents.
The University of North Texas is a state employer offering great benefits, including medical, dental, life, retirement, ample paid time off, and great work/life balance.
Position Overview
The Enterprise Architect serves as a technical, system integration, and IT architecture subject matter expert and works with the operations team, Individual Practice Architects, Systems Analysts, and within the IT infrastructure technical team to design and build IT systems and platforms. Expected to lead complex technical projects and ensures long-term requirements of systems management and planning. Owns the ultimate responsibility for the technical design functionality of IT systems and platforms including servers, client applications that are managed by the Systems Engineering Team, the Cloud Services Team, and the Identity and Access Management Team.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and six years of related enterprise architecture experience including Microsoft Azure, VMWare, and Active Directory deployment, design and administration; or any equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Knowledge of implementation of end-to-end integrated systems
* Knowledge of architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency inline with business strategy
* Knowledge of the organization's technologies and architectures
* Skill in oral and written communication, appropriate to the needs of the audience
* Ability to maintain current and planned state architectural blueprints
* Ability to develop architectural road map for the enterprise
* Ability to communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals and strategies
* Ability to gain organizational commitment for enterprise level architecture and infrastructure initiatives
* Ability to design and implement enterprise architectural direction
* Ability to deliver architectural metrics and reports for the executive team, business and IT management
Preferred Qualifications
*3+ years of experience in Higher Education
*Bachelor’s Degree or Higher
*SNIA SNCP Certified Storage Engineer
*VMware Data Center Virtualization Certification
*Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
*Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
*Experience implementing MFA and SSO technologies
Required License/Registration/Certifications
Job Duties:
- Leads the planning, implementation, and maintenance of IT infrastructure solutions and platforms that perform to defined functional and operational expectations.
- Delivers high-quality IT architectural systems and infrastructure designs with specific focus on building the designed systems accounting for existing technical debt, any development bottlenecks, and architecture initiatives to drive service delivery, optimize cost, and support established business goals.
- Establishes and maintains technical security architecture, availability, overall performance, and maintenance activities.
- Communicates and accurately documents all architectural decisions, plans, goals, and functional requirements.
- Serves as the Enterprise Architect and technical lead for service delivery of the scope of the built system by designing, reviewing, and overseeing the implementation of end-to-end integrated systems, enterprise data, and metadata structures, as well as internal systems such as product deployment and licensing.
- Contributes to the definition of the overall IT strategy and Enterprise roadmaps by collaborating with other technical leads, project managers, business relationship managers, and business analysts on a project team and across the organization.
- Identifies and proposes new IT standards (products, solutions, and services).
- Ensures high quality by establishing a baseline and monitoring technical metrics (i.e., code coverage, performance, scalability) that report the overall health of newly built IT systems.
- Recommends and facilitates quality improvement efforts. Stays up to date on future innovations, and technical trends and applies this to direct future changes.
- Has knowledge of the solutions available as well as best practices for business processes.
- Runs complex projects ensuring they are completed on time and within budget with only general direction from management.
Work Schedule:
Generally M-F, 8am-5pm
Driving University Vehicle:
No
Security Sensitive:
This is a Security Sensitive Position.
Special Instructions:
Benefits:
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EEO Statement:
The University of North Texas System is firmly committed to equal opportunity and does not permit -- and takes actions to prevent -- discrimination, harassment (including sexual violence) and retaliation on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in its application and admission processes, educational programs and activities, facilities and employment practices. The University of North Texas System immediately investigates complaints of discrimination and takes remedial action when appropriate. The University of North Texas System also takes actions to prevent retaliation against individuals who oppose any form of harassment or discriminatory practice, file a charge or report, or testify, assist or participate in an investigative proceeding or hearing.
