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IT Solutions Architect

Position Number: 6641300
Location: Austin, TX
Position Type: Computing - Management/Director

IT Solutions Architect

Austin Community College

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:
IT Solutions Architect

Job Description Summary:
The IT Solutions Architect is typically engaged as the highest-level technology expert across one or more architecture domains such as business, data, application, and technology. This role will be responsible for analyzing and translating business, information and technical requirements into an architectural design that outlines solutions to achieve business objectives following enterprise architecture principles and standards. This may include creating prototypes and proofs of concept to help define requirements. The architect will recommend implementations that are scalable, sustainable, and add value. The IT Solutions Architect will also need to be business-oriented and results-focused, helping the college to enhance its operations through the implementation of technical solutions.
The IT Solutions architect must have specific expertise in one vertical (domain) of The Open Group Architecture Framework but will work across domains at times.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Designs technical solutions and leads the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies, based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
Responsible for creating and maintaining current and future state documentation including architecture diagrams.
Provides consulting support to project teams to ensure architecture is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
Creates and/or proposes changes in process, policy and standards as they relate to the architecture and design principles.
Other duties and responsibilities depending on the business needs.

Knowledge

Knowledge of all components of enterprise technical architecture.
Knowledge of the Open Group Architecture Framework.
Excellent understanding of application development methodologies, infrastructure, cloud, and network architectures.
Understanding of the enterprise's political climate and how to navigate stakeholders.

Skills

Must have the ability to think logically.
A high level of problem-solving skill is required.
Attention to detail.
Solution oriented mindset.
Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.
Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
Ability to analyze complex information, identify issues, and develop plans to address them.
Effective use of negotiation and facilitation skills.
Strong technology leadership skills required.
Outstanding presentation, communication, and facilitation skills.
Self-starter with proven ability to successfully kick-start new initiatives and to drive complex issues through analysis and resolution.
A strong ability to successfully collaborate with colleagues and customers to create prototypes and proofs of concept as a means of eliciting and defining requirements.
Maintaining an established work schedule.
Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
Excellent verbal communication skills in articulating the functional and technical aspects of product capabilities
Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
Ability to work in a cross-functional environment to help support and enhance business systems.

Technology Skills

Advanced skill and experience in one or more Open Group Framework architecture domain.
Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
Use architecture modeling software.

Required Work Experience

Five (5) years related work experience.

Preferred Work Experience

Seven (7) years working as a solutions or enterprise architect on business, application, data, and technology domain related solutions along with 5 or more years application development experience.
Ten (10) years of progressively responsible IT experience, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Additional work experience as a senior technologist showing expertise in a specific technology vertical may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Information Systems (IS), Computer Science or related field, or equivalent related IT experience.

Special Requirements

Reliable transportation for local Austin area travel.

Other Preferred Qualifications

TOGAF certification preferred.
ITIL Certification preferred.

Physical Requirements

Work is performed in a standard office environment.
Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

Promotes and adheres to College safety protocols.
Promptly identifies and reports safety hazards and incidents.
Contributes to a culture of safety and operational excellence.

Salary Range

$99,155 - $123,943

Number of Openings:
1

Job Posting Close Date:
October 25, 2025

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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