About the job
The North Carolina State Board of Elections is in search of a skilled Application Architect contractor for a project lasting approximately 12 months, focused on enhancing the Election Voter Registration Database.
Important Note: This position is exclusively open to local candidates residing within 60 miles of downtown Raleigh. Please indicate your current location in the Questions section on the Skills tab.
The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in assessing and selecting a development platform for our new enterprise database application (SEIMS). Responsibilities encompass designing the development platform as well as application environments, including production, testing, and development. A strong grasp of project management principles is essential to effectively plan and manage significant technical changes and implementations within this extensive system development project. The candidate will also be tasked with establishing requirements, objectively evaluating various application and development solutions, and efficiently managing system events and outages.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical expertise in specific technologies or a portfolio of applications.
- Specialize in application, technical, domain, or solution architecture, focusing on solution design and implementation.
- Develop and maintain strategies, technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps for the architecture domain.
- Ensure the successful completion of technology projects within your area of responsibility.
- Define and manage team structure and resource levels to meet the functional area's business needs.
- Analyze the feasibility and compatibility of solutions with existing enterprise architecture, guiding decision-makers towards the most compliant architecture.
- Conduct industry and market research on technologies relevant to assigned architecture areas.
- Engage with agency subject matter experts, business liaisons, and IT representatives to ensure alignment between business and IT.

