Solutions Architect (Platform & Cloud)

About the role

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the nation's oldest and largest public housing authority with more than 152,000 apartments and over 370,000 residents. NYCHA's mission is to provide quality housing for New Yorkers that is sustainable, inclusive, and safe, while fostering opportunities for economic mobility. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 leased housing program that serves over 200,000 tenants. Since the 2019 Agreement between NYCHA, the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (SDNY), NYCHA has been working under a Federal Monitor structure. The HUD Agreement sets the requirement to create a new Transformational Plan in collaboration with the Federal Monitor and sets forth various compliance related targets for NYCHA across major operational areas. The Office of the Chief Information Officer seeks a motivated, talented, and highly skilled candidate to serve as a Solution Architect (Platform & Cloud) within the Business & Enterprise Architecture team. This individual should have a solid understanding of enterprise platform services, hybrid cloud environments, and modern integration patterns, and be comfortable designing the foundational technology layer on which the Authority's business applications run. NYCHA operates a broad portfolio of on-premises and cloud-based enterprise applications supporting both internal operations and resident-facing services. The platform and cloud footprint continues to grow in size and complexity as NYCHA introduces new applications, migrates existing workloads to the cloud, and modernizes the services it delivers. The Solution Architect (Platform & Cloud) will contribute to the development and execution of NYCHA's enterprise platform and cloud strategy, ensuring that the Authority's technology foundation remains secure, scalable, sustainable, and resilient in support of business operations. Under direction of the Director of Business & Enterprise Architecture, with latitude for independent judgement, specific responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following: - Analyze, design, document, and review platform and cloud solutions across compute, storage, network, identity, and platform services to maximize performance, capacity, and security. - Develop and maintain up-to-date reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for NYCHA's hybrid environment, including Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and on-premises data centers. - Define and maintain the methodology, principles, roadmap, standards, and guidelines for platform and cloud architecture, including security, reuse, interoperability, and integration. - Help teams adopt architecture standards and guidelines throughout the solution delivery lifecycle; partner with delivery teams on architecture reviews of proposed solutions and vendor designs. - Co-develop reference patterns and standards in close partnership with IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Solutions Management, and Cybersecurity; establish secure and industry-compliant specifications for new platform and cloud solutions. - Contribute platform and cloud expertise to cross-functional design efforts, including landing zones, identity and access management, network connectivity, disaster recovery, and modern platform operating models. - Provide expert advice to project teams on use of cloud services, platform technology, and integration best practices; review detailed technical specifications and designs. - Research and recommend opportunities to adopt new technologies; analyze the impact, cost, and operational implications of implementing new technologies. - Assist in the development and review of technical specifications for the procurement of IT systems and services, including the evaluation of vendor submissions solicited via bids, requests for information, and proposals. Liaise with IT vendors, as necessary. - Support capacity planning, resilience, disaster recovery, and technology currency initiatives across data centers and cloud tenants. - Execute special projects and initiatives, as assigned. NOTE: Due to the existence of a civil service list, candidates must have permanent civil service status in the title of Certified IT Administrator (LAN/WAN) to be considered. NOTE: This position is open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate in your cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position under the 55-a Program. For detailed information regarding the 55-a Program, please click on the link below: https://bit.ly/55aProgram Additional Information 1. INTERAGENCY TRANSFERS INTO NYCHA OF THOSE PERMANENT IN TITLE ARE NOT PERMITTED IN THE FACE OF AN ACTIVE AND VIABLE NYCHA PROMOTION LIST OR PREFERRED LIST FOR THE SAME TITLE. 2. NYCHA employees applying for transfer, promotional, title or level change opportunities must have served a period of one year at curr