
Government Administration Β· 5.6k people
Senior Solutions Architect
Posted 9 Oct
Whatβs this role about? The Senior Solutions Architect will design scalable, secure, and reliable data solutions while setting engineering standards for NYC's construction permitting systems. Responsibilities include leading technical discovery, managing enterprise data architecture, and overseeing data engineering pipelines and governance.
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About City of New York The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the largest public housing authority in North America, was created in 1934 to provide decent, affordable housing for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers. NYCHA is home to 1 in 16 New Yorkers, providing affordable housing to 511,384 authorized residents through public housing and Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) programs as well as Section 8 housing. NYCHA has 177,565 apartments in 2,410 buildings across 335 conventional public housing and PACT developments. In addition, NYCHA connects residents to critical programs and services from external and internal partners, with a focus on economic opportunity, youth, seniors, and social services. With a housing stock that spans all five boroughs, NYCHA is a city within a city.
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Responsibilities
- The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) leverages technology to drive opportunity, improve public safety, and help government run better across New York City. From delivering affordable broadband to protecting against cybersecurity threats and building digital government services, OTI is at the forefront of how the city delivers for New Yorkers in the 21st century. Follow us on social media @NYCOfficeofTech, and visit www.nyc.gov/oti to learn more.
- At OTI, we offer great benefits, and the chance to work on projects that have a meaningful impact on millions of people. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with other passionate professionals who share your drive and commitment to making a difference through technology.
- The Senior Solutions Architect is a hands-on role for a technical leader who can move seamlessly between engineering and enterprise strategy. In this role, you will shape the evolution of systems for SPEED, the program to shorten the time it takes to get new construction permitting in NYC. You will audit existing systems and design scalable, secure, and reliable solutions for data integration, analytics, and reporting, while helping set the engineering standards that support them.
- The Senior Solutions Architect will partner with business stakeholders, product owners, engineers, and infrastructure teams to lead discovery and translate complex requirements into enterprise data solutions, while advancing data quality, governance, security, and operational excellence.
- Lead technical discovery sessions, gather requirements, and translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Work with a cross-functional product team to define biggest opportunities and tenable solutions.
- Develop solution architectures that balance performance, security, scalability, and cost.
- Design and maintain enterprise data architectures, including data warehouses, data lakes and operational data stores.
- Develop data models and establish standards for data design, integration, storage, and access.
- Evaluate and implement modern data technologies and architecture patterns.
- Design and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines, integrations, and automation workflows.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance through monitoring and optimization.
- Implement engineering best practices, including CI/CD, version control, and documentation.
- Implement data governance, master data management (MDM), metadata management, lineage, and cataloging practices.
- Establish data quality standards and ensure compliance with security and access requirements.
- Partner with business and technical teams to deliver enterprise data solutions.
- Document architecture standards and lead mayoral and modernization initiatives.
- Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.
- Day - Due to the necessary duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings.
- WORK LOCATION
- Brooklyn, NY
Qualification
- 1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics or related field and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems; or
- 2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and ten years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems; or
- 3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Paid time off
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