North Dakota Class Description
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT (0178)
Grade 15*
Scope of Work:
Work involves providing leadership in developing and maintaining the architecture and strategy of a complex enterprise-wide information technology (IT) function, such as applications, systems, or telecommunications. The scope of enterprise architect work spans the majority of state agencies. Positions assigned this class report to a division director within the Information Technology Department.
Duties Performed:
- Establish, document, and manage enterprise architecture for all of state government; develop and document models of the conceptual, logical and physical architecture.
- Collaborate with agency leaders, other enterprise architects, and enterprise architecture advisory groups to plan current and future IT/business integration strategies and strategic direction to achieve the architecture; establish governing bodies and approval processes as needed.
- Lead collaborative teams to establish enterprise solutions that meet business needs and manage individual projects that achieve enterprise architecture initiatives.
- Ensure the integration of enterprise architecture processes with other IT processes, such as change management and configuration management.
- Identify the organizational resources, structures, and cultural change necessary to support the proposed architecture and make proposals to management regarding organizational change.
- Facilitate enterprise architecture domain teams in development of technology standards; oversee domain team activities and report domain team status to enterprise architecture advisory groups.
- Ensure the State’s IT architecture supports business needs; advocate and support the approved technology strategies; ensure agency compliance with State standards.
- Determine agency and enterprise technology requirements; research, evaluate, and analyze existing and planned functionality to ensure requirements are met.
- Determine the general impact of changes within the IT industry and determine specific impact to the State’s architecture; communicate changes to affected entities.
- Establish and manage standards, policies, and best practices related to the support and operations of the function.
- Write and review requests for proposal and lead or assist in proofs of concept for proposals and evaluations.
- Participate in meetings, conferences, workshops, etc., to advise management staff and governing bodies regarding technical and conceptual aspects.
- Provide oversight and guidance to the various entities that develop and maintain the infrastructure to ensure appropriate development and continued compatibility with the approved architecture strategy.
- Review short-term and long-term user business and information technology plans to ensure support of user needs; provide users with information to develop plans and advise of forthcoming technology to support user needs; provide alternative uses of technology when feasible to ensure cost effectiveness and/or optimization of resources.
- Interview and select staff members; manage assigned staff by planning and assigning work duties, developing and implementing work standards, coaching and mentoring, implementing performance management measures, and initiating and carrying out disciplinary measures as required.
NOTE: The duties listed are not intended to be all-inclusive. Duties assigned any individual employee are at the discretion of the appointing authority.
Minimum Qualifications:
Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science or an information technology related field, and five years of work experience in the information technology function relating to the work of the specific architecture. Work experience must have included designing and recommending information technology solutions and management of staff or leadership of teams. Additional work experience as described may substitute for up to two years of the education requirement on a year-for-year basis.
Eff. Date: 5/08
Rev.
7/08 – revised scope and duties to incorporate ITD’s comments
Rev. 12/10 - revised minimum qualifications statement
* Denotes pay grade exception per NDAC 4-07-04-11
