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This position aligns IT and enterprise strategy, maintains business capability models to reflect new or improved processes or IT systems, creates common standards to ensure integrity of the models, and influences enterprise strategy.\nDuties, Functions and Responsibilities:\nEssential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.\nPromotes digital business initiatives and identifies potential impact on the City’s critical financial metrics and economic architectures.\nSupports business and technology innovation that drives the City’s objectives.\nEngages key business stakeholders and product managers to facilitate both strategy and innovation planning.\nCollaborates with stakeholders involved in digital strategy and digital innovation to develop an IT investment roadmap.\nCreates deliverables that illustrate how to strategically move the business forward.\nWorks with enterprise architects and key organizational stakeholders to define a strategic plan for leveraging integrated architecture as part of the enterprise architecture.\nParticipates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.\nProvides strategic consultation to product managers in defining or designing business capabilities, processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing, selling and enabling technologies based on business and end-user requirements.\nParticipates in enterprise architecture development, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio and technical architecture, and champions the balance of flexibility and risk.\nFacilitates agreement on organizational work models and processes to meet business requirements.\nSeeks ways to apply new technology to, and reuse existing technology for, business processes.\nResearches and provides information on technical trends and competitors' practices relevant to assigned products and value streams.\nResponsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:\nMay provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities:\nMust possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.\nKnowledge of business architecture tools and techniques, including strategy on a page, strategic planning, business model canvas, disruptions and trends, balance scorecard, economical modeling, risks and interdependencies, process models, business capability modeling, ecosystems modeling, customer and user profiling, journey maps, and human-centric design.\nKnowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid).\nKnowledge of existing, new and emerging technologies and being able to practically incorporate them into new business designs and business models.\nKnowledge of architecture methodologies (e.g., SABSA, Zachman, TOGAF) and modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate).\nKnowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing business processes, functions and organizational structures.\nKnowledge of facilitation and organization change management.\nSkill in analytical and conceptual skills and proven ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.\nKnowledge of finance, accounting, valuation and metrics development.\nSkill in statistical and information analysis.\nSkill in financial analysis, architecture evaluation, solutions delivery orchestration, project management, road mapping, risk management, interdependency management, agile methodologies, information security, cloud computing infrastructure, data architecture skills.\nAbility to be organizationally savvy, understanding of the political climate of the City and how to navigate obstacles and politics.\nAbility to apply multiple technical solutions to enable future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted business outcomes.\nAbility to communicate, influence and persuade - both business and IT leaders as well as peers.\nAbility to adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.\nAbility to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.\nAbility to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams, with the proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.\nAbility to leverage intellectual curiosity to inform solutions and innovate.\nAbility to take responsibility for personal growth and acquire strategies for gaining new knowledge, behaviors and skills.\nAbility to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.\nAbility to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nGraduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of experience in a related field.\nExperience may substitute for education for up to four (4) years.\nGraduation with a Master's degree from an accredited college or university in a related field may substitute for two (2) years of experience.\nLicenses and Certifications Required:\nNone.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with implementing and architect enterprise Maximo application upgrades and/or feature packs.\nExperience providing complex solutions for enterprise Maximo using available tools and updating architecture diagrams to reflect changes.\nExperience supporting and maintaining enterprise Maximo versions 7.6.1.3 and higher.\nExperience developing and supporting complex interfaces and architectural diagrams between enterprise applications.\nExperience utilizing Maximo’s Application Designer and Automation Scripting to apply complex configurations for business units.\nExperience configuring Maximo Start Centers, KPIs, domains and/or templates.\nExperience managing Maximo security groups and user licenses.\nExperience providing support on applications that direct data to Maximo.\nNotes to Candidate:\nAustin Energy’s Technology and Data - Applications Division has an exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Solutions Architect for the Work/Asset/Financial Management team. The ideal candidate’s work history shall reflect an ability to provide complex solutions and support an enterprise Maximo system. We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated ability to maintain and enhance our existing enterprise application environments to improve usability, performance, reliability and scalability. \nThe position’s key responsibilities include modifying Maximo applications using Maximo’s Application Designer tool, creating complex Maximo workflows, developing and maintaining architectural diagrams, supporting Maximo interfaces between enterprise applications, utilizing Automation Scripting, managing upgrades/feature packs, configuring new modules, managing security groups and user licenses.\nWork Location:\nAustin Energy Headquarters, 4815 Mueller Blvd., Austin, Texas 78723\nDays and Hours:\nMonday through Friday. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.\n40 Hour Work Week - Telework up to 95%\nAdditional work hours may be required to support the 24-hour Utility operations, which may include evenings, weekends, holidays, inclement weather, and emergency closures.\nWork Schedule:\nThis has been designated as a Critical Employee position. Critical Employees are considered necessary and vital and support activities that impact City or department operations. This work can be done while at a designated work site or while working at an alternate work location. Critical employees who are able to work at an alternative work location are required to do so. Schedules may be modified and employees may be reassigned to another area during extraordinary situations or emergency conditions to provide essential services.\nSalary:\n$89,880.00 - $115,100 annually, depending on qualifications and experience.\nEmployment Application:\nThe City of Austin employment application is an official document; incomplete applications will not be considered. Please be sure to detail on the application all current and previous employment that you wish to be considered as part of your qualifications.\nThe Employment Record should be completed with job titles, employment dates, job duties, functions, and responsibilities for each position held. Starting salary will be based on overall relevant experience from your application.\nRésumés will not be accepted and statements such as “see résumé” will not be accepted. You may use “N/A” for fields that are not applicable.\nPlease note that Austin Energy may close the job posting at any time after 7 days from the date of the initial advertisement. Once the job posting has closed, applications cannot be changed.\nAssessments:\nYour skill level in some of the competency areas for this job may be assessed through skills testing.\nIf you are selected as a top candidate:\nVerification of your education (which may include high school graduation or GED, undergraduate and/or graduate degrees) will be required. You must provide proof of education from an accredited organization/institution.\nIf you are identified as a top candidate and are in the military or a veteran, you will need to provide a copy of your DD-214 prior to confirming a start date.\nThis position requires a criminal background investigation.\nGood Standing Employees:\nEmployees, in Good Standing, who are candidates within the department/division that the position resides and who meet the minimum and all of the preferred qualifications (if any) of the position will be included in the initial interview. Department/division employees must remain in Good Standing through the Top Candidate Selection phase at which time the Good Standing status will be re-verified.\nFair Labor Standards Act:\nThis position is classified as EXEMPT (Salaried). Exempt employees are not eligible for overtime compensation.\nTravel:\nIf you are selected for this position and meet the Driver Safety Standards in the City of Austin Driver Safety Program, you may drive when necessary to multiple locations as part of your regular job duties. Otherwise, you are responsible for getting to and from these locations.\nImportant Note to Applicants:\nPlease be aware that the Job Posting Close Date reflects the final day to apply, but the posting will close at 11:59 PM the day before the date listed. All application steps, including attachments and submission, must be fully completed before that time.\nWe also recommend that you save or print a copy of the job posting for your records. Once a posting has closed, it will no longer be viewable in the system.\n“A valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. is required for this position.”\nJOIN THE CITY OF AUSTIN TEAM\nAt the City of Austin, we are more than just an employer-we are a vibrant community dedicated to shaping one of the nation's most dynamic and innovative cities. As we strive to fulfill our commitment as public servants, it is important that we ground our efforts in a set of guiding principles - Empathy, Ethics, Excellence, Engagement, and Equity - that anchor our delivery of services that significantly impact the lives of Austinites. 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