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IT Enterprise Solutions Architect - Innovation & Technology Services

City of Savannah

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Jul 2026

💰 $97,260/yr($77,808/yr – $97,260/yr)

About the role

Posting number: 2603275

Department: Innovation + Technology Services

Job classification: Enterprise Solutions Architect

Posting type: Open

Categories: IT and Computers

Summary

Shape the Future of Enterprise Technology at the City of Savannah

The City of Savannah’s Innovation & Technology Services (ITS) Department is seeking a highly experienced, strategic, and innovative Enterprise Solutions Architect to serve as the City’s highest-level technical authority for the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for designing, guiding, and evolving the City’s enterprise Microsoft 365 environment—ensuring it is secure, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with long-term organizational strategy. As the Enterprise Solutions Architect, you will lead the transformation of how City departments leverage Microsoft technologies to streamline operations, reduce complexity, improve collaboration, and maximize return on technology investments.

As the new Enterprise Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for the architecture, strategic design, and evolution of the M365 environment across all city departments. You will focuses on platform-level decisions, solution design, and technology consolidation across the Enterprise. This includes guiding the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of internal applications and automation solutions built on Power Platform tools such as Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. By leveraging these capabilities, the Enterprise Solutions Architect will ensure that business processes are streamlined, secure, and scalable, while maximizing the value of the City's Microsoft 365 investment. The new Enterprise Solutions Architect will partner with department leaders to identify opportunities to replace or reduce dependence on third-party vendors by maximizing the value of existing Microsoft investments. You will also provide technical leadership on emerging M365 capabilities and drives adoption through targeted training and enablement. The new Enterprise Solutions Architect also provides technical recommendations and advisory services to ITS Leadership regarding the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as well as the full technology portfolio of the City and opportunities to streamline business processes to drive efficiencies Citywide.

This role is ideal for a forward-thinking architect who thrives at the intersection of enterprise architecture, digital transformation, automation, and business process optimization.

We offer great pay, excellent benefits to include medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance,employee/spouse/childsupplemental life insurance, short-term disability, tuition reimbursement,wellness programs, deferred compensationplan (457 B), pension plan, flexible spending account,home purchase assistance and 12 paid holidays!

Women, Minorities, and Veterans Are Encouraged to Apply

Examples of duties

Designs and maintains the enterprise architecture of the City's Microsoft 365 environment, including tenant configuration, identity management, security baselines, and platform governance.
Evaluates and recommends adoption of emerging M365 capabilities including Copilot, Power Platform, Purview, Syntex, and Viva.
Conducts department-level consultations to assess current technology usage and design solutions that leverage M365 to reduce or eliminate dependence on redundant third-party tools.
Develops and maintains the City's M365 roadmap in alignment with ITS strategic goals and the GPS framework.
Identifies technology consolidation opportunities and quantifies cost savings resulting from vendor reduction and technology consolidation.
Designs data architecture standards, and information management policies for the M365 environment.
Delivers training and enablement sessions to ITS staff and City departments on emerging platform capabilities.
Collaborates with the ITS PMO, cybersecurity, and network teams to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with organizational priorities.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or Business Administration plus five years of increasingly responsible experience in Information Technology.

Demonstrated expert-level experience architecting and administering enterprise Microsoft 365 environments.
Microsoft 365 Administrator Certification
Experience conducting technology assessments and producing architectural recommendations.
Experience using PowerShell scripting for M365 administration, automation,