ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - 72003995

Requisition No: 870510 

Agency: Management Services

Working Title: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - 72003995

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 72003995 

Salary:  $100,000 - $130,000 

Posting Closing Date: 03/06/2026 

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Enterprise Architect
Florida Digital Service
State of Florida Department of Management Services
This position is located in Tallahassee, FL

The Enterprise Architect serves as the Enterprise Architecture Team Lead and reports to the Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Administrator. Together, these positions provide strategic leadership for the State’s enterprise architecture function in accordance with section 282.0051, Florida Statutes. The role supports the development and governance of the statewide enterprise architecture framework, standards, and modernization strategies that guide technology decision-making across the enterprise in alignment with Florida’s cloud-first policy, interoperability directives, and cybersecurity priorities. The position evaluates existing and emerging technologies and translates statutory directives and business objectives into actionable architectural guidance and roadmaps. 

In this role, the Enterprise Architect designs and delivers implementation-ready architecture blueprints for enterprise platforms, including cloud, identity, security, and data environments. The position translates enterprise architecture standards into deployable technical patterns, configurations, and integration models that can be operationalized by engineering teams. Working closely with engineering staff, the Enterprise Architect validates design decisions, reviews configurations, and resolves complex cross-domain architectural challenges. The role serves as the technical architecture lead for enterprise security platforms, including the Security Data Lake ecosystem and Zero Trust initiatives, and provides deep technical oversight throughout implementation to ensure solutions adhere to established enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, and statewide governance expectations. 
The Enterprise Architect supports structured review processes for identified projects and procurements, providing documented alignment assessments to inform decision-making. In collaboration with SOC and Engineering leadership, the role provides architectural direction for SOC-enabling platforms, including the Security Data Lake ecosystem, ensuring scalability, interoperability, and alignment with enterprise risk priorities. The position also supervises and develops enterprise architecture staff and serves as a liaison to executive leadership and partner teams to promote cohesive, enterprise-aligned technology strategy. 

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership, Communication, and Collaboration 
    Supervise, mentor, and develop enterprise architecture team members, including coaching, performance feedback, structured professional development planning, and succession planning to ensure long-term capability continuity. 
    Direct and oversee the development, documentation, and maintenance of architecture workflows, policy interpretation guidance, standards templates, decision logs, and exception tracking mechanisms, while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and operational excellence. 
    Serve as the primary liaison between the architecture team and other cybersecurity, IT, business, and SOC units, coordinating participation in projects and initiatives to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives and respect for partner team priorities. 
    Communicate architecture priorities, status updates, risks, and operational impacts to the Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Administrator, Deputy State CISO, executive leadership, and other stakeholders through formal and informal briefings and reports. 
    Oversee and coordinate architecture contributions to deliverables, exercises, and strategic initiatives. 
Enterprise Architecture Policy and Resources 
    Define, maintain, and evolve the enterprise architecture framework, standards, and guiding principles, as required by s. 282.0051, Florida Statutes that inform statewide technology decision-making and modernization initiatives. 
    Identify systemic barriers to enterprise modernization initiatives and propose architectural mitigation strategies. 
    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement a cohesive strategy for supporting enterprise initiatives consistent with Florida’s cloud-first policy and Florida Digital Service’s interoperability responsibilities. 
    Lead the development and publication of reference architecture frameworks, readiness assessment tools, and other enterprise enablement resources. 
    Evaluate existing and emerging technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns to identify modernization opportunities, systemic risks, redundancy, and enterprise adoption strategies and opportunities aligned with statewide priorities. 
    Translate statewide business priorities, statutory directives, and enterprise risk considerations into actionable technology strategies, roadmaps, and architectural guidance. 

Technical Architecture Execution 
    Develop detailed solution designs that convert enterprise architecture principles into implementable system architectures across cloud, data, security, and integration domains. 
    Produce architecture artifacts including system interaction diagrams, trust boundary definitions, data flow mappings, and integration specifications to support engineering build efforts. 
    Conduct technical design validation sessions with engineering teams to ensure feasibility, scalability, and operational sustainability prior to deployment. 
    Review infrastructure configurations and integration patterns to verify alignment with approved architectural models and security requirements. 
    Document architecture decisions through formal decision records that capture technical rationale, trade-offs, and long-term implications. 
 

Enterprise Architecture Oversight and Reviews 
    Assess compliance with enterprise architecture policy through structured review, feedback, and oversight processes for identified projects and procurements, as required by Florida Statutes. 
    Define criteria for enterprise architecture reviews that align with published enterprise architecture standards. 
    Conduct architectural assessments of major IT initiatives and procurements, cloud migrations, data initiatives. 
    Evaluate alignment of identified projects and procurements with enterprise architecture policy, cloud-first objectives, and interoperability standards. 
    Provide documented architecture review feedback identifying alignment, gaps, risks, and recommended remediation actions to support informed project and procurement decisions.  
    Integrate enterprise architecture processes with cybersecurity governance, data management, and project management oversight practices to ensure consistent lifecycle alignment and risk-informed decision-making. 

SOC Capability Architecture 
    Provide architectural ownership and strategic design for SOC-enabling platforms, including the Security Data Lake and related components. 
    Establish and implement architectural guardrails for scalability, high availability, encryption, cost optimization, and data lifecycle management to support enterprise risk priorities. 
    Collaborate with SOC leadership to ensure architectural direction supports detection engineering scalability, threat hunting analytics, cross-domain correlation, and incident investigation workflows. 
    Partner with the Engineering Team Lead to translate architectural patterns into implementable designs, review major architecture-impacting changes, and ensure the Security Data Lake ecosystem evolves in alignment with enterprise architecture standards and modernization objectives. 
 

*Other duties as assigned. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA):

Knowledge 
    Enterprise architecture frameworks, governance models, and industry methodologies (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent), including development and operationalization of enterprise architecture programs. 
    Statewide IT governance structures, statutory authority related to enterprise architecture (including s. 282.0051, Florida Statutes), and public-sector technology policy environments. 
    Cloud-first architecture principles and multi-cloud strategies, including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and cloud-native design patterns. 
    Enterprise interoperability standards, API strategies, integration architectures, and shared service models. 
    Cybersecurity architecture principles, enterprise risk management concepts, and security data platform architectures. 
    Data architecture, governance, lifecycle management, metadata standards, and large-scale analytics enablement concepts. 
    Portfolio management and project governance practices as they relate to architecture review. 
    Emerging technology trends and innovation frameworks relevant to enterprise modernization. 
    Organizational change management and stakeholder engagement principles in complex, multi-agency environments. 

Skills 
    Designing, implementing, and maturing enterprise architecture frameworks that guide long-term technology strategy. 
    Developing and publishing reference architectures, enterprise patterns, technology standards, and modernization guidance. 
    Conducting enterprise-level architecture assessments and producing defensible, well-documented alignment evaluations. 
    Evaluating enterprise platforms and emerging technologies for scalability, interoperability, risk impact, and statewide adoption suitability. 
    Leading structured governance processes that balance modernization objectives with operational realities. 
    Influencing executive stakeholders and facilitating consensus across agencies with competing priorities. 
    Designing cloud-native and security data architectures that enable analytics, interoperability, and enterprise resilience. 
    Communicating complex technical and architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
    Supervising and developing professional staff while fostering accountability and high-performance standards. 

Abilities 
    Anticipate long-term technology trends and position the enterprise for scalable, sustainable modernization. 
    Balance standardization and interoperability objectives with agency-specific operational flexibility. 
    Assess enterprise technology risk and align architectural guidance with statewide risk tolerance and cybersecurity strategy. 
    Integrate architecture governance with cybersecurity, data management, project management oversight, and modernization initiatives. 
    Maintain objectivity and credibility when providing alignment feedback on high-visibility projects and procurements. 
    Influence technology direction without direct operational authority over implementation. 
    Foster collaboration among architecture, engineering, SOC, business, and executive stakeholders. 
    Drive continuous improvement of architecture processes, standards, and enterprise maturity. 

Minimum Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, Public Administration, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered. 
•    5+ years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, security architecture, cloud architecture, or a closely related senior IT architecture discipline. 
•    At least 2 years of experience performing each of the following: 
o    Developing architecture standards 
o    Developing architecture frameworks and/or reference architectures 
o    Performing architecture reviews or governance activities for major IT projects, cloud migrations, technology procurements, or enterprise modernization initiatives. 
•    2+ years of supervisory or managerial experience leading technical teams. 
•    TOGAF, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, and/or cloud architecture certifications preferred. 

Other job-related requirements for this position: 

•    Ability to sit for extended periods of time. Ability to stand for extended periods of time. Ability to drive and/or fly long distances. Ability to lift, push and pull up to 30lbs. 

•    Criminal background investigation including fingerprinting and statewide and national criminal history records check per Section 110.1127 Florida Statutes, Chapter 435 Florida Statutes and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s CJIS Security Policy CJISD-ITS-DOC-08140.

Our Organization and Mission:

Under the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, Interim Secretary Tom Berger and DMS’ Executive Leadership Team, the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) is a customer-oriented agency with a broad portfolio that includes the efficient use and management of real estate, procurement, human resources, group insurance, retirement, telecommunications, fleet, and federal property assistance programs used throughout Florida’s state government. It is against this backdrop that DMS strives to demonstrate its motto, “We serve those who serve Florida.”

Special Notes:
DMS is committed to successfully recruiting and onboarding talented and skilled individuals into its workforce. We recognize the extensive training, experience and transferrable skills that veterans and individuals with disabilities bring to the workforce. Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to contact our recruiter for guidance and answers to questions through the following provided email addresses:
DMS.Ability@dms.myflorida.com
DMS.Veterans@dms.myflorida.com
An individual with a disability is qualified if he or she satisfies the skills, experience, and other job related requirements for a position and can perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must contact the DMS Human Resources (HR) Office at (850) 488-2707. DMS requests applicants notify HR in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
Criminal background investigation including fingerprinting and statewide and national criminal history records check per Section 110.1127 Florida Statutes, Chapter 435 Florida Statutes and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s CJIS Security Policy CJISD-ITS-DOC-08140.
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The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.