IT Architect

Located in North Carolina's third largest city, UNC Greensboro is among the most diverse, learner-centered public research universities in the state, with nearly 18,000 students in eight colleges and schools pursuing more than 150 areas of undergraduate and over 200 areas of graduate study. UNCG continues to be recognized nationally for academic excellence, access, and affordability. UNCG is ranked No. 1 most affordable institution in North Carolina for net cost by the N.Y. Times and No. 1 in North Carolina for social mobility by The Wall Street Journal - helping first-generation and lower-income students find paths to prosperity. Designated an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, UNCG is a community-engaged research institution with a portfolio of more than $67M in research and creative activity. The University's 1,100 faculty and 1,700 staff help create an annual economic impact for the Piedmont Triad region in excess of $1B.

Plan, design, implement and support stable and secure enterprise central and client IT systems infrastructure. ITS Enterprise Systems supports more than 21,000 students, faculty, and staff by administering and/or supporting the campus enterprise server infrastructure, enterprise databases, and client computing infrastructure. All the core technology services offered by the University rely on the successful design, development, implementation, growth, maintenance, and monitoring of the campus systems infrastructure.

The primary purpose of this position is to serve as an IT architect and senior engineer who specializes in designing and maintaining large and complex on-prem, hybrid, and cloud-based data systems. This position plays a key role in developing the strategic direction for the Systems Center platform, Active Directory, and related systems to support enterprise-class services. This position is responsible for analyzing the university's business, data, and application strategy to develop a cohesive architectural model, and will be required to work on multiple projects that include complex integration efforts and the transitioning of applications to new technologies. This position is responsible for working with administrators from other areas of ITS and the University, including networking, identity, licensing, security, and compliance to provide technical roadmap discussions, architectural solutions, and management of critical enterprise systems infrastructure, particularly, within Windows, MacOS, and iOS framework, and will require existing and/or learned expertise with services such as Microsoft Intune, Azure Active Directory Join, Jamf Pro, Jamf Pro Connect, Apple School Manager, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Anti-Malware. This position examines external and internal technology, long-term trends, and implications of alternative approaches, and articulates those concepts to other internal staff. This position will utilize in-depth knowledge of software engineering, cloud technologies, and data engineering to define target architectures, patterns, and processes. This position will lead and/or support tool and technology selection and drive standardization and reuse of industry-leading technology across the organization. This position will lead and/or support the evaluation and selection process for application packages to satisfy solution requests and related university needs. This position collaborates with ITS management in setting guidelines and standards to ensure systems are consistent with ITS' and UNCG's long-term strategies. This position provides technical direction to project teams to understand and can explain the interrelationship of multiple concepts and can translate these concepts, ideas, and situations into clear, understandable, and simple terms.