Cloud and System Integration Architect

Job Description
The Information Technology Department at the Wisconsin Historical Society manages the
technology and computer infrastructure that drives the Agency’s business systems and
automation requirements. The IT department maintains and implements systems and web
applications that support the business needs and mission of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Under the general supervision of the Chief Information Officer the Technical Architect will play a
critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable technical solutions
across various domains. This role requires expertise in cloud technologies, digital asset
management, and integration strategies. It will support close collaboration with cross-functional
teams to drive innovation and ensure seamless system performance.
This role is Responsible for defining and implementing short and long-term strategic goals for
managing and maintaining systems and software, and ensuring that all planned and in-place
system architectures are aligned with the Agency’s goals. While designing, creating and
monitoring the implementation of end-to-end integrated systems, this role must promote a
balanced and focused development of systems and their maintenance no matter if requirements
change. They review new and existing system designs and make recommendations for
improving or altering the systems. This role may be involved in negotiating and administering
vendor and consultant contracts.
The Technical Architect consults with department heads and end-users to further infrastructure
development. They develop and execute test plans to check technical performance of
infrastructure and report findings. Based on findings, they make recommendations for
improvement. They develop and recommend policies to leadership for standardizing systems.
This key role is a team lead that influences policy, strategy, staffing, and priorities for the team
and agency, they also aid the Chief Information Officer in managing developer and analyst
workloads and are a technical and functional resource when issues are escalated from various
channels across the IT team. This is not a supervisory position. This role provides expertise and
architectural assistance to other WHS IT, DOA Division of Enterprise Technology, and vendor
personnel including software teams, Analysts, and Engineers. The Technical Architect conducts
research on new technologies in the field of systems development and creates and develops
plans for investing in such systems that will increase cost effectiveness, mission effectiveness,
and flexibility.
Responsibilities:
System Architecture and Integrations:
• Architect and oversee integratons between various systems (e.g. e-commerce,
membership/CRM, email marketing, point of sales, DAMS, and other web platorms).
• Interface with users, project sponsors, and all other stakeholders in order to determine
their evolving needs
• Develop APIs, middleware, and data pipelines to enable seamless data flow.
• Ensure data consistency and integrity across integrated systems.
• Implement, support, and mature a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) and
related integrations to establish a single source of truth for digital assets and metadata.
• Creating architectural documentation ranging from a very high level conceptual design
to a more detailed specification. Includes conceptual and logical data models, mappings,
context diagrams, process architecture models and data flows.
• Maintain system architecture that integrates key systems including web CMS, DAM, and
collections management systems
• In partnership with internal and external design and development teams, implement
and maintain a state-of-the-art website, integrated with DAMS.
• Ensure relevant operational and collections-oriented data readily available to report on
via Tableau
• Identify and activate a Digital Preservation solution for Collections data and state
records.
• Implement a scalable storage architecture that can accommodate collections growth
and preservation.
• Plan, design, and request server infrastructure that aligns with project requirements and
future scalability.
• Partitioning large systems into successive layers of subsystems and components each of
which can be assigned to a single team member accountable for maintaining and
improving.
• Ensure system performance or reliability is not sacrificed by reductions in cost, shifting
timelines, or otherwise
Cloud Infrastructure:
• Design, implement, and optmize cloud-based solutons (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
to meet business needs.
• Ensure high availability, security, and scalability of cloud services.
• Foster team culture that encourages utlizaton of automaton and streamlined
development practces like CI/CD, DevOps practces. Collaborate with developers and
engineers to automate deployment and monitoring processes.
Identity and Single Sign-On (SSO):
• Define and implement identty management and SSO strategies for internal (Entra ID)
and external (Okta) users.
• Work closely with security teams to ensure secure authentcaton and authorizaton
meetng enterprise standards as well as WHS business requirements.
• Integrate SSO solutons with existng applicatons.
E-commerce and Point of Sale (POS):
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand e-commerce and brick and mortar
retail requirements.
• Design and optmize commerce platorms, including payment gateways, analytcs,
financial reportng, and inventory management.
• Architect POS solutons for retail or online sales channels.
Technical Leadership:
• Organize and lead soſtware development projects; Exert oversight over multiple
concurrent development initiatives;
• Provide guidance to development teams on architectural decisions; Provide technical
direction to developers and hold them accountable for best practices
• Scrutnize change requests to determine the magnitude of work done and estmatng the
level of effort
• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practces.
• Serve as a lead worker and mentor for developers and engineers.
• Advise on methods to implement and enforce best practces for system security, access
control, and data protecton, including backups, patch management, and encrypton.
• Set standards to create and maintain comprehensive documentaton of system
configuratons, procedures, and policies.
• Designing and implement short and long-term strategic goals for managing and
maintaining systems and soſtware
• Collaborate with Project manager(s) on major initatves with cross-agency impact
• Performing cost-benefit analyses to determine whether requirements are best met by
manual, soſtware, or hardware functons; making maximum use of commercial off the
shelf or already developed components
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
1. Proven experience as a Technical Architect or similar role.
2. Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated services.
3. Familiarity with DAM systems, integration patterns, and SSO protocols.
4. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
5. Experience as a Windows System Administrator in an enterprise environment.
6. Strong knowledge of Windows Server operating systems and Active Directory.
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7. Experience with M365 products, including SharePoint, Teams, and Power Platform.
8. Strong understanding of network and security principles, including firewall
configurations and access controls.
9. Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
10. Ability to work independently and lead a team, with outstanding communication and
collaboration skills.
11. Strong organizational and project management skills.
12. Knowledge of Project management methodologies with effective results focus within an
information systems environment
13. Expertise in C#, .NET Core, and the .NET ecosystem as a whole
14. Knowledge of object oriented design principles such as SOLID or GRASP
15. Familiarity with multiple types of software architecture (Clean architecture, DDD, TDD,
Vertical slice architecture)
16. Comfortable working in legacy codebases
17. Comfortable with version control and automated testing and deployment frameworks
(CI/CD)
18. Knowledge of industry best practices and a commitment to implementing them.
19. Knowledge of Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
20. Scripting and automation skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python).
21. Familiarity with security principles, including encryption, authentication, and
authorization.
22. Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required.
23. Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
24. Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
25. Ability to quickly master new technologies as needed.
26. Experience providing guidance and leadership to novice systems engineers
27. Excellent written and oral communication skills
28. Strong analytical and creative problem-solving abilities
This is a hybrid position, so on-site work is required some days base
Requirements Top skills and years of experience: 5+ years of experience in the following:
- Experience with multiple Cloud infrastructure in AWS & Azure
- Experience providing technical direction/leadership to a team of developers and engineers
- Complex web, data, and middleware software architecture and development
Nice to have skills:
- Experience implementing multiple SSO technologies (Entra ID, Okta) with SaaS and on-prem systems
- Experience with Digital Asset Management Systems
- Strategic planning

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