Under administrative direction, serves as the Solutions Architect for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) supporting the Illinois State Police (ISP) performing highly complex professional and advisory functions for the DoIT/ISP.
Architects, designs, develops, and oversees implementation of end-to-end integrated systems and application solutions of in-house and commercially off the shelf (COTS) information systems and networked software to support the agency.
Manages the DoIT/ISP application portfolio and provides architectural guidance to Chief Information Officer (CIO), Department leaders and staff.
Works with the Department’s Information Technology Management, ISP command, vendors and contractors on system and application architectural issues and ISP/DoIT initiatives.
Keeps abreast of new developments in the information technology field by continuing education through online training platforms, meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on products, vendors, techniques, and procedures.
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Requirements

Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to four (4) years of college with course work in computer science or directly related fields.
Requires five (5) years of professional experience in application services or a related Information Technology field.
Specialized Skills Requires five (5) years professional experience working with both legacy and modern enterprise solutions.
Proficiency with application architecture, development tools, and environments such as Java, J2EE, JSP, .NET, IBM WebSphere, MVC, MVVM, Azure or other cloud-based solutions, SQL Server, Oracle, and various integrated development environments (IDEs), including experience designing and integrating cloud-native services, APIs, and Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) platforms.
Requires three (3) years professional experience planning and managing software solutions development or implementation projects, applying software evaluation principles and practices, and using enterprise project/portfolio management tools such as Microsoft Project, including experience coordinating project delivery in environments utilizing CI/CD and automated testing practices.
Requires three (3) years professional experience developing or maintaining an Application Portfolio for a large organization using software/enterprise architecture modeling tools, standards, and frameworks, including experience using modeling tools (e.g., ArchiMate, UML, Visio, Azure Architecture Center) and architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.
Requires two (2) years of professional experience performing business analysis duties and converting user requirements into systems/technology requirements.

Benefits

Competitive Group Insurance benefits including health, life, dental and vision plans.
Flexible work schedules (when available and dependent upon position)
10 -25 days of paid vacation time annually (10 days for first year of state employment)
12 days of paid sick time annually which carryover year to year
3 paid personal business days per year
13-14 paid holidays per year dependent on election years
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Pension plan through the State Employees Retirement System
Deferred Compensation Program – voluntary supplemental retirement plan
Optional pre-tax programs -Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP) & Dependent Care Assistant Plan (DCAP)
Tuition Reimbursement Program and Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility

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Hard skills

application architectureJavaJ2EEJSP.NETIBM WebSphereMVCMVVMSQL ServerOraclecloud-native services

Soft skills

advisory functionsarchitectural guidanceproject delivery coordinationbusiness analysisuser requirements conversion