Technical Advisor (Tallahassee, FL) #1007169

Job Title: Technical Advisor
Job Location: Tallahassee, FL (on-site)
Job Duration: 12 month contract
Job Tasks and Activities:
The Technical Advisor on the Offender-Based Information System (OBIS) Modernization Project team
will serve as the principal line of communication for the project and technical teams. The duties and
responsibilities of this position are:

• Gain a detailed understanding of the OBIS Modernization Project scope directly after onboarding.
• Create the technical architecture documents of all the interacting applications in the current integrated solutions, depicting applications, interfaces, and information flow currently in place.
• Document the current architectural standards followed by the mainframe, web, and mobile solutions currently in place.
• Create the architectural standards for the technologies to be used in the to-be solutions for the Department’s infrastructure and security requirement compliance.
• Enforce the Department’s enterprise architecture models, representations, capabilities, and components to meet the business and technology activities.
• Validate if the proposed technical solutions meet the Department’s requirements.
• Serve as the technical liaison between Department business users and contracted service vendors.
• Provide hands-on leadership for the design of re-engineered processes.
• Provide periodic reports to internal and external stakeholders on the compliance of new solutions and processes in relation to enterprise architecture standards.
• Maintain all technical architectural artifacts in a shared repository with version history.
• Participate in business requirements gathering sessions.
• Lead the development of business process improvements with recommendations for enterprise architecture standards.
• Work independently as part of a larger cross-functional team.

Required Experience:
A bachelor’s degree or master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science,
Information Systems, or other related field, or four (4) years of equivalent work experience is required.
Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis when applicable
The Department requires the following experience, skills, and knowledge for this position:

• A minimum of seven (7) years of IT experience within one (1) or more technical specialty areas, preferably supporting large-scale, multi-vendor or outsourced environments.

• Deep understanding of information systems, networking theory, and enterprise architecture standards relevant to data, application, or infrastructure domains.
• Experience supporting enterprise-level modernization efforts, preferably involving:
• Data warehouse environments (e.g., International Business Machines Database 2 [IBM DB2],
• Structured Query Language [SQL] Server platforms).
• Software modernization or transformation initiatives.
• Multi-vendor technical delivery environments.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in modernizing and migrating mainframe applications from legacy systems.
• Experience in architecting optimal solutions for migrating applications to the cloud, preferably Azure or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in containerization of applications.
• Building application integrations using Application Programming Interfaces.

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