JOB DESCRIPTION:
Role: Enterprise Architect – Avolution Abacus & EA Modeling
Location: New York, NY, United States
Duration: Min 25 hours per week / Max 37.5 hours per week
Supervisor: Deputy Chief, Enterprise Architecture, Data and AI
About Us: The MTA Strategy and Enterprise Architecture department's mission is to deliver innovative and responsive solutions that enable safe, effective, and efficient transportation operations which strategically align with the overarching corporate MTA goals. IT will partner with all MTA business units to understand the overall information needs of the transportation agencies and the communities they serve to optimize the adoption and use of information technology.
Job Description: We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Architect with hands-on experience in Avolution Abacus and deep knowledge of enterprise architecture modeling frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate). The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing, modeling, and evolving enterprise architecture capabilities to drive strategic transformation, technology standardization, and data-informed decision-making.
Summary: MTA is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Enterprise Architect – Avolution Abacus & EA Modeling to join our team. This role will lead to the development of current and future-state architecture models across business, application, data, and technology domains. The ideal candidate will be skilled in using Abacus to deliver actionable insights, maintain architecture repositories, and support decision-making through visual dashboards and governance frameworks like TOGAF and ArchiMate.
Responsibilities:
- Enterprise Architecture Design & Modeling
- Develop, manage, and maintain enterprise architecture models using Avolution Abacus.
- Capture current (as-is) and future (to-be) state architectures, including business, application, data, and technology layers.
- Facilitate architecture modeling workshops with stakeholders across business and IT.
- Define and document architecture viewpoints, principles, and patterns.
- Meta-Modeling & Framework Customization
- Define and extend meta-models: Understanding how to customize the ABACUS meta-model (attributes, relationships, element types).
- Model governance frameworks: TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN
- Multi-layer architecture modeling: Business, Application, Data, Technology, Security, and Physical layers.
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