Technical Architect IV

Technical Architect 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.

This is a hybrid position, so on-site work is required some days based on project and operational demands, but WHS is a great place to work right in the heart of downtown Madison and the UW-Madison Campus. Remote work is allowed and encouraged when possible. Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI prior to