IT Solutions Architect

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

An IT Solutions Architect position is available with the City of Fort Worth IT Solutions’ Public Safety division. This Architect position will have strategic, architectural, and cross departmental decision authority, serving as the technical gatekeeper for public safety systems. This ensures that the complex, expanding, and mission critical environment of Fort Worth’s emergency services is supported by sound, forward thinking technology decisions.

Specifically, this position serves as the technical architect for Fort Worth’s public safety systems, providing strategic direction and designing enterprise-wide solutions for CAD, RMS, EMS integrations, and related mission-critical technologies. It establishes and governs architecture standards, ensures system interoperability and resilience, and leads cross-departmental coordination to align technology with operational needs. The role also evaluates emerging technologies, manages vendor integrations, and acts as the technical gatekeeper to support modernization and continuity across all public safety platforms.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in computer science, management information systems, business or a related field
• Five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience in an applicable field
• Valid Driver’s License
• Candidate selected for hire must pass a CJIS background check (see below for details)

 Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience architecting and administering public-safety technologies in a large multi-agency environment. Preferably has experience administering CentralSquare CAD at a highly technical level
• Demonstrated experience configuring and managing APIs to integrate third-party or add-on software solutions with Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD)
• Experience collaborating with Fire, Police, IT Solutions, and Emergency Medical Services to ensure CAD/RMS and EMS workflows align with operational needs

The IT Solutions Architect’s job responsibilities include:

• Define, plan, and design enterprise-wide technical solutions: Develop innovative architecture for complex public-safety technologies—including CAD, RMS, EMS integrations, and 911 systems
• Establish and govern architecture standards: Lead efforts to define, document, and enforce technology architecture standards across all public safety systems, ensuring consistency, scalability, and compliance with best practices
• Provide cross discipline technical direction and mentorship by offering expert guidance across multiple technical domains, actively training and developing staff on complex public safety architecture, and translating specialized CAD/RMS/EMS knowledge into repeatable practices that strengthen team capability, reduce single points of failure, and increase overall operational effectiveness
• Research emerging technologies and recommend improvements
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert in project planning: Participate in planning efforts to ensure new CAD, RMS, EMS, and 911 solutions
• Manage third‑party applications and integrations: Oversee vendor‑provided platforms affecting CAD, RMS, EMS, and 911 environments
• Ensure compliance with City policies and standards

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Background Check

Applicants for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility.  Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position:  Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A Misdemeanor Conviction, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions in the last 10 years, Class A Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication in the last 10 years, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and ALL Family Violence Convictions regardless of class.

Apply Now! Come be part of something special in Fort Worth. 🌟

Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.