Description of Work:  
 
The System Integration Architect is responsible for the following:
 

• Ensuring completion of all required System Integration activities.

• Ensuring continuity of service and highly effective coordination through all phases of the Compass project. 

 
Experience:  
 

• General Experience: At least ten (10) years of experience planning, designing, building, and implementing IT systems. 

 

• Specialized Experience: At least five (5) years of the required ten (10) years of experience must be in the direct supervision and management of major projects that involve providing professional support services and/or the integration, implementation and transition of large complex system and subsystem architectures.  Must have led or been chief architect in major IT implementation efforts.  Must demonstrate a broad understanding of client IT environmental issues and solutions and be a recognized expert within the IT industry. Must demonstrate advanced abilities to team and mentor and possess demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills

 
Preferred:
 

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience as a senior system integration architect for three (3) or more data migration projects each with multi-phased implementations. Responsible for leading the efforts to cleanse and convert data, establish transitional interfaces as required, and retire systems.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience providing technical vision, strategy, and integration for multiple inter-related applications on various technology platforms in various levels of maturity.
• At least five (5) years of experience in a leadership role, designing, developing, and migrating financial systems or tax systems.
• Demonstrated experience planning and implementing infrastructure improvements, in whole or incrementally.
• At least seven (7) years of experience in logical and physical data modeling and data integration, data migration and quality (assessment) management.
• Experience cleansing and converting data from a mainframe DB2 database.
• At least one (1) year experience participating in the implementation of an integrated tax system.
• At least one (1) year of demonstrated professional experience with application of Internal Revenue Service Publication 1075 tax information security guidelines.
• At least one (1) year of demonstrated experience using State of Maryland’s Department of Information Technology’s (DoIT) guidelines, methodologies, and templates.
• Demonstrated experience engaging agile solution teams at the program and portfolio levels.
• Demonstrated experience serving in a leadership position on one (1) or more projects using agile methodology.
• At least one individual proposed shall have at least five (5) years of experience performing the following tasks in at least one (1) IT project:
  • Creating and updating SDLC documentation; and
  • Managing the collection, documentation, and revisions of functional and technical requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

 
Educational Requirements: 
 

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related discipline. 
• Preferred: Master’s Degree, or Ph.D. Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline (may score higher).

 
Certifications Required/Desired:
 

• Desired: CPA, M.B.A., J.D., ITIL, PMI-ACP, SAFe™ Agilist certification, and/or other relevant agile certification.

 
Key Technical Skills:
 

• Must have led or been chief architect in major IT implementation efforts.
• Must demonstrate a broad understanding of client IT environmental issues and solutions and be a recognized expert within the IT industry.
• Must demonstrate advanced abilities to team and mentor and possess demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills.
• Professional knowledge of federal and/or state tax administration