Job Description

Project/Program:
Act as Expert Systems Architect working for NYS Information Technology Services on behalf of the NYS Department of Transportation to fulfill the duties as described below.

Day-to-Day Tasks:
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
1. Collaborate with DOT, ITS, and external vendor teams to establish line of sight from NYS enterprise technology and security strategy to business capability implementation.
2. Act as Project team member as Lead Architect to negotiate change and clearly articulate complex technical and business concepts to Vendors, ITS teams and DOT following alignment with ITS Strategy and Mission as well as ITS Technical and Security Policies when solutioning Agency business needs.
3. Review the systems architecture currently in place and provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.
4. Own/Manage Severity 1 and 2 Incident and Problem triage and coordination when impacting the Department of Transportation
5. Perform L3 Operational Technical Support at the Application Layer for
Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and custom-built business
applications.
5. Act as an escalation point to assist the L2 Operational Technical Support teams for DOT.
6. Analyze Changes to help determine impact to DOT, if any, to assist with determining testing requirements for ITS staff supporting DOT.
7. Use a ticketing system to track and manage incidents, service requests, problems, changes, and release/deployment.

Mandatory Qualification:
Systems Architect - Defines the architecture of a computerized system (i.e., a system composed of software and hardware) in order to fulfill certain requirement, including a breakdown of the system into components, the component interactions and interfaces (including with the environment, especially the user), and the technologies and resources to be used in the design.

Expert - 84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications:
- 84 months experience understanding agency/business areas functional and nonfunctional requirements to translate to technical and security architecture requirements. This experience must include creation of architecture design documentation covering data flows; interfaces with other systems; authentication; etc.
- 84 months experience architecting, installing, configuring and performance tuning COTS and custom-built business applications on Windows-based platforms. This includes application components such as IIS, Tomcat, WebLogic; and application layer authentication/ integration using ADFS, SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
- 84 months experience solutioning and architecting COTS and custom-built business applications in Cloud Computing platforms with AWS, Azure and GCP.
- 84 months experience performing L3 Analytical and Technical support specifically at the Application Layer for Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and custom-built business applications. This experience must go beyond general system administration and demonstrate deep knowledge of application behavior, interdependencies, and issue resolution in Windows environments.
- 60 months experience performing L3 Analytical and Technical support of COTS and custom-built business applications interfaces & system interconnects (Networks, Stealth firewall software, F5 and Load Balancing) implemented on converged/mixed environments to diagnose and resolve connectivity issues using tools like WireShark, Process Monitor, Netstat, Ping, Traceroute, TelNet, etc.
- 60 months experience performing L3 Analytical and Technical support of COTS and custom-built business applications using tools like DynaTrace and Splunk for log analysis, system monitoring, and system performance tuning
- 60 months experience architecting and integrating COTS and custom-built business applications using API Gateways (Akana) and Content Management (FileNet).