Solutions Architect (9976) - Department of Technology

The Department of Technology – Enterprise Applications division seeks a Solutions Architect, a senior technical leader responsible for guiding the City’s technical strategy, integration architecture, and system interoperability for City systems.

This role focuses on ensuring that data flows consistently across all systems, establishing an integration architecture that enables to work seamlessly with critical City systems. The Architect will define enterprise standards, lead architectural decision-making, and work closely with City departments and DT to ensure citywide alignment on data governance, API standards, and system modernization roadmaps.

Essential duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide strategic leadership for integration and system architecture, ensuring consistent data exchange and interoperability across departments.
• Lead architectural decision-making for connecting platforms with City systems, including legacy platforms and City infrastructure (API gateway, cloud, and data platforms).
• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards covering integrations, data exchange, identity, document management, and API design.
• Design, prototype, build, and maintain applications, integrations, and intelligent (AI-enabled) solutions across the technology stack
• Define the integration layer that decouples City systems and user interfaces from platform specific logic, ensuring long-term flexibility.
• Ensure alignment with citywide strategies for cloud, cybersecurity, privacy, and digital transformation.
• Architect the system landscape including data synchronization, workflow coordination, data pipelines, document management, and API/event-driven integrations.
• Occasionally perform technical prototyping, configuration, or proof-of-concept work to validate integration approaches or architectural assumptions.
• Guide implementation partners and vendors to ensure architecture compliance and long-term sustainability.
• Advise on configuration tradeoffs to minimize customizations and technical debt.
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities, including autonomous/agent-based pilots, for alignment with organizational needs
• Define operational standards for integrations, including monitoring, performance, security, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with DT engineering and operations to ensure long-term platform readiness and support.
• Partner with IT leadership, business owners to ensure solutions align with redesigned workflows and data governance needs.
• Act as a liaison across City departments to ensure technical consistency and alignment.