Application Architect II

Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting. This position can work 100% remotely (within the state of WI).

Job description:

This is a position needed for the development and support of critical priority applications in the Division of Employment and Training. Candidates will play an integral role on self directed work teams in support of high priority development projects.

Project work will include:

• Positions in the classification are responsible for the design and management/governance of the agency’s applications/software structural framework to align IT strategy plans and systems with the goals and requirements of the agency.
• Positions work closely with developers, creating road maps for applications and ensuring integration among information systems and the IT infrastructure.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of applications architecture, configurations, and procedures.

Examples of typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide an architectural framework for information system application/software development, maintenance, and enhancement efforts.
• Understand and evaluate user and process requirements to ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables.
• Establish agency guidelines and/or road maps for applications to align development plans and to ensure effective integration among IT systems and infrastructure
• Evaluate and understand the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the agency; evaluate the impact of changes or additions.
• Analyze systems and perform usability testing to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, and meet security requirements.
• Serve as a liaison with other IT professionals and agency stakeholders to understand their needs, and, to evaluate emerging business issues that affect applications architecture/infrastructure
• Monitor technological advancements to ensure solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with agency and industry standards.

Must-Haves (6 yrs):
• Experience leading teams, planning and estimating projects, guiding underlying application architecture,
establishing governance of process and best practices
• Experience with implementation and ongoing support of multi-platform applications.
• Keeping a strong pulse on technological trends, making recommendations on emerging technologies,
and identifying problems that can be solved with emerging tools.
Provide an architectural framework for information system application/software development,
Understand and evaluate user and process requirements to ensure those requirements can be
Establish agency guidelines and/or road maps for applications to align development plans and to
Evaluate and understand the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the
Analyze systems and perform usability testing to ensure performance and reliability, enhance
Serve as a liaison with other IT professionals and agency stakeholders to understand their
Monitor technological advancements to ensure solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with agency and industry standards.

Hardware/Software Environment

• ASP.NET Core (v6, 8), Blazor Framework, MudBlazor Material Design Library, Microservices Architecture, GitHub, Jira, Oracle PL-SQL, Azure SQL. Legacy systems include: VB.NET, C#, Object Oriented Design, MVC, MVVM, Visual Studio.NET, MS Team Foundation Server.

Additional Comments

• Previous work experience in government, insurance, accounting, or case management is required.
• Previous work experience in online transaction processing (OLTP) web application development and batch processing required.

Must-Haves (6 yrs):
• Experience leading teams, planning and estimating projects, guiding underlying application architecture, establishing governance of process and best practices
• Experience with implementation and ongoing support of multi-platform applications.
• Keeping a strong pulse on technological trends, making recommendations on emerging technologies, and identifying problems that can be solved with emerging tools.

Nice-to-Haves:
• Experience guiding architecture and development using Blazor framework with MudBlazor components. (2 yrs)
• Experience working at a government agency that leverages a customized Agile development lifecycle, but may modify the lifecycle work within constraints often felt in government work. (2 yrs)
• Experience working in a technical environment with a wide array of technologies, from ASP.NET, batch processes, to modern frameworks and microservices. (6 yrs)

The successful candidate will be highly technically competent, a consistently high producer, a good communicator, solutions-oriented, enthusaiastic to mentor junior developers, a technical thought leader, and overall team player. All candidates submitted with inconsistencies or falsifications in their credentials will be disqualified and DOA purchasing will be notified.