There are TWO (2) positions 

DPS are seeking two consultants to  help I.T. automate and implement new technology to assist with keeping the desktop environment current and running optimally.    The consultants should be SME's at SCCM, building packages, architecting SCCM solutions, using SCCM to manage the help desk, creating packages ,  using SCCM to deploy.  The consultants should have Powershell 3 to do scripting.  DPS runs on Windows servers.   The consultants will be writing scripts in Powershell to automate process with Active Directory.   DPS is discontinuing using Ghost for imaging and will be using SCCM.   

There are two large projects the consultants will be utilized on;  Office 365 and Service Now  

The Technical Architecture Specialist is the technical expert centered on a technology, technologies or a portfolio of applications. The Technical Architecture Specialist is the technologist who coordinates with other parties in setting the technical approach and direction and implementation for work. The Technical Architecture Specialist provides technical design expertise, defines what technical requirements are needed to support defined business requirements, participates in detailed design and code reviews, reviews system performance issues, reviews test plans, and provides technical guidance to the Application Team and Test Team members. The Technical Architecture Specialist is responsible for collaborating with the Team Lead(s) to coordinate project schedules, budgets, request management, and work authorization. The expert level Technical Architecture Specialist will interface with Executive Sponsors, Group Leads, and Lead Functional Architects to convey infrastructure requirements, plan, and schedule deployment of tasks, and resolve any issues that impact the deployment of the Application Delivery systems.

TAS3

Years of Relevant Experience:

5 plus years,  and 1 to 2 years project management experience

Preferred Education:

4 year college degree or equivalent technical study

Role Description:

All roles specified in TAS2 plus the following:

•Communicate effectively with IT staff, client organization and software / hardware suppliers.

•Lead efforts in designing technical strategy, direction and approach, technical architecture, data architecture, development architecture, performance tuning, performance and capacity analysis, technical standards, technical reliability and flexibility.

•Design and define overall system technical architecture - including software and hardware within the framework and constraints of technical architecture.

•Evaluate alternative designs.

•Maintain control of specific tools and assets. 

•Own the technical architecture for a portfolio of applications, including the interpretation and application of the technical architecture.

•Plan, design development and/or execution of architectures.  Participate in the plan and design of technical architecture.

•Assist with the preparation of estimates for new technology applications and maintenance of existing applications as part of Service Management.

•Provide experience in utilizing the project architecture. Acknowledged as highly competent in one or more technologies.

•Communicate accurate and useful status reports and other management on a timely basis.

•Coordinate and conduct project architecture, infrastructure review meetings, and portfolio review meetings with Group Lead, Lead Functional Architects, and Team Leads.  Integrate issues and identify impacts.

•Communicate and resolve application interface issues. 

•Communicate to team members the relations between their work assignments and the organizational and/ or program strategy, objectives, business and technology needs of the application / system.

•Share knowledge across teams with both similar and non-similar applications, specifically focusing on Technical Architecture

•Interpret and communicate technical architecture to the Technology Application Architecture Team (s).