With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose — for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver.

What We Offer 

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The salary range for this position is between $103,977.00 – $171,562.00 depending on years of experience, education and internal equity. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service.
• 457B Retirement Plan.
• 140 hours of PTO earned within first year + 11 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday and 1 volunteer day per year.
• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date.

Location

The City and County of Denver supports a hybrid workplace model. Employees work where needed, at a job site several days a week and off-site as needed. Employees must work within the state of Colorado on their off-site days.

In this position you can expect to work on site at least 1 day per week at the Denver International Airport.

What You’ll Do 

The Denver International Airport is looking for a Senior IT Solution Architect to join our Business Technologies team. This architect will support the Airport’s Enterprise platforms including Data integration, Analytics, asset management platforms and finance systems.  The solutions architect coordinates the design of solutions, and develop implementation plans including applications, platforms, hardware, cloud services and integrations.

Job responsibilities include:

• Solutions architect will research and evaluate capabilities and gaps in a portfolio of systems.
• Ensure systems, meet business goals and requirements, anticipate DEN’s future information system needs, creates process improvements and controls, reviews and is aware of alternatives that could improve systems and processes as well as improves ROI of portfolio.
• Partner with customers and colleagues to identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve business processes, promote the strategic use of information, enable seamless access to information and design and builds prototypes of solutions to meet business requirements.
• Supports clients to understand business processes, requirements, goals, and design solutions aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Researches and evaluates new technological advances in the external technology marketplace to assess current practices for compliance with the city’s information systems requirements as well as anticipate the city’s future information system needs.  Develops solutions to address current and future information system needs and to create process improvements and controls.
• Broad background implementing enterprise applications and solutions.  Ability to design solutions that meet business requirements and guide the implementation.
• Strong knowledge with application, security, and infrastructure resources to develop a roadmap for a portfolio of systems.
• Current with technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies.  Understands common principles in IT service management and security controls (NIST, SIEM, MDM, DLP).
• Experience identifying the organizational and financial impact of the solutions architecture (for example, on skills, processes, structures, or culture).
• Able to deliver solutions within project management and agile frameworks as well as delivering technology solutions on-premises, with Cloud and SaaS.   Knowledgeable with integrating systems using REST and SOAP API’s.  Coordinates with end users to capture business requirements.
• Collaborates with technical experts to design solutions to meet business and security requirements.  Supports project office and application teams to deliver projects and enhancements.  Works with applications teams to manage platform and data integrations.
• Designs and builds prototypes and working models of complex and/or new elements of an information system then directs colleagues with the development, execution, and review of test plans and results. Trains colleagues on new information system technologies and requirements related to administration and operations.
• Performs and documents system back-up and recovery or directs others to do so.  Writes or modifies software programs including analysis, writing specifications and code, program installation and documentation for use with multi-application, multi-user database systems.
• Coordinates and monitors the maintenance as well as troubleshooting of information systems on daily basis. Coordinates with vendors the documentation and application of solutions to information system problems.  Track errors and data movements, configuring software and hardware, maintaining optimum system capacity levels, developing dependency models to be used in risk management, and maintaining consistent system standards agency/citywide.   Coordinates disaster recovery plans which include designing, testing, and maintaining systems protocols
• Works within ITIL framework for a problem reporting communication. Assists in the resolution of critical information system problems and complaints.

What You’ll Bring 

Denver International Airport (DEN) is the third-busiest airport in the United States and one of the top ten busiest airports in the world, connecting our community globally through flight and business. DEN is the primary economic engine for the state of Colorado, generating more than $36.4 billion for the region annually and employing nearly 37,000 people. At DEN, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. We celebrate individuality and uplift all races, ethnicities, gender identities, national origins, ages, abilities, religion, and LGBTQIA+ communities. We know that our diversity makes us stronger, and we strive to keep Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility (EDIA) at the center of all that we do.

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• Excellent professional attitude with strong interpersonal communications and presentation skills.
• This is a customer facing position and requires that the resource approach all work tasks and business relationships with the internal project team, external vendors and other support resources in a highly professional manner.
• Microsoft 365 (Azure AD, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power BI)
• Cloud Infrastructure Azure, AWS.
• ServiceNow (GRC, ITSM, ADM, CMDB).

Required Minimum Qualifications 

We realize your time is valuable so please do not apply if you do not have at least the following required minimum qualifications:

• Education:   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Administration, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience:   Three (3) years of professional information technology experience installing, maintaining, and/or modifying operating system and/or network operating system software and associated hardware. Two of these years must include experience in designing and implementing enterprise level systems and scalable solutions.
• Equivalency:   One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post high school education. Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements.

Application Deadline 

These positions are expected to stay open until June 26th, 2024. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than June 26th, 2024, end of business to ensure consideration.

FBI Background Check: FBI criminal background check is required for all positions at Denver International Airport (DEN). Employees are also required to report any felony convictions and/or moving violations to maintain this clearance and be eligible for continued employment. By position, a pre-employment physical/drug test may be required.

Snow / Emergency Duties: Denver International Airport is a 24/7/365 team operation. If weather conditions warrant or an emergency crisis occurs, all DEN employees may be required to work extended hours and/or shifts.