Enterprise Architect IV

Enterprise Architect IV

State of Wisconsin

Job Overview

Location: Remote (Wisconsin, USA)

Employment Type: 1099, W2

Job Code: JB-SXCTIWJI

Experience: 10 years

Compensation: 65-80 W2/1099

Response Deadline July 23th, 2025

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About the Role

The State of Wisconsin is looking for an Enterprise Architect -IV.  Please note, this posting is open to nationwide candidates with no relocation allowed.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with business leaders, technical teams, and vendors to understand business goals, processes, and data needs, ensuring architectural decisions are business-aligned.
• Translate business objectives into data architecture requirements, partnering with technical staff to assess feasibility and execution.
• Define and guide the agency’s enterprise data architecture, including the creation and ongoing maintenance of enterprise data flows, with a focus on how data moves across systems to support core business operations, analytics, and decision-making.
• Provide direction and oversight for the design of data solutions, while leveraging technical staff to execute specific implementation details and configurations.
• Ensure understanding, application, and enforcement of enterprise data standards across systems and teams.
• Recommend phased approaches to integrating new data sources and platforms in alignment with the agency’s modernization roadmap and long-term data strategy.
• Lead data integration and migration planning to ensure accurate and efficient transitions between systems.
• Collaborate with data stewards and data owners to provide regular updates on project progress and status.
• Develop and maintain documentation on data architecture, data flows, and data models to ensure clarity and consistency.
• Contribute to data governance frameworks that ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance with relevant policies and regulations.
• Provide updates to leadership on architecture progress, risks, and contributions to agency-wide data and modernization efforts.
• Contribute to and help evolve the agency’s enterprise data strategy, ensuring it supports both current needs and future growth.

Required Qualifications and Skills

Primary Skills:

• data architecture
• data modeling
• data governance
• data integration

Secondary Skills:

• cloud solutions
• public sector systems
• modernization projects
• data analytics ecosystems

Core Skills:

• data governance
• data quality
• data integration

Additional Requirements:

• Experience in pension, retirement, or benefit distribution systems including health insurance and related data processes
• Proficient in creating and maintaining Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)
• Experience enforcing enterprise data standards and managing enterprise vs. local data usage
• Experience working with both transactional data models and applications, as well as data lake architectures and solutions
• Proficiency with ERwin Data Modeler for developing, documenting, and maintaining logical and physical data models in support of enterprise architecture.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand, synthesize, and translate business needs into high-level data architecture strategies.
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams in the implementation of architecture, relying on their expertise for detailed solution design and execution.
• Extensive experience leading data efforts in complex, multi-system environments, with a focus on integration and business impact.
• Deep understanding of enterprise data management disciplines: data governance, master data, metadata, lineage, and quality.
• Knowledge of data architecture principles, reference architectures, and best practices for both on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
• Experience with data modeling tools and working with technical staff who focus on data integration technologies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage with business and technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Strategic mindset with attention to data enablement, not just system architecture.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in IT or data-related roles, with 5+ years in a lead data architecture capacity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience defining and implementing data architecture for cloud solutions
• Experience with public sector systems (insurance, pension), modernization projects, and data analytics ecosystems

Benefits and Requirements

• 100% remote work within the continental US
• No WI residency required
• Open to nationwide candidates
• Access to FTI (Federal Tax Information)
• No travel required
• Security clearance required

Work Environment and Culture

The position can work 100% remote within the continental US. No WI residency required. Open to nationwide candidates.

Application Instructions

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