About the job
PermitSF spearheads the City’s initiative to modernize and integrate San Francisco’s permitting system, enhancing speed, predictability, and customer-centricity. Our team is committed to streamlining processes, boosting accountability, and replacing over 30 outdated systems with a cohesive citywide permitting platform set to launch in 2026.
The Department of Technology is on the lookout for a PermitSF Solutions Architect, a senior technical leader who will direct the City’s technical strategy, integration architecture, and system interoperability for the new unified permitting platform utilizing the OpenGov Permitting & Licensing solution.
This pivotal role is centered on guaranteeing consistent data flow across all permitting systems, establishing an integration architecture that enables OpenGov to function seamlessly with essential City systems, including Accela, Oracle Forms, and Clariti. The Architect will set enterprise standards, lead architectural decisions, and collaborate closely with PermitSF, DataSF, Digital Services, the Mayor’s Office of Innovation (MOI), and DT to achieve citywide alignment on data governance, API standards, and modernization roadmaps.
Additionally, the Architect will formulate a long-term strategy for phasing out legacy permitting systems and guide technical decisions to ensure scalability, resilience, and sustainability for the City’s new permitting ecosystem.
Key responsibilities encompass:
- Delivering strategic leadership for PermitSF’s integration and system architecture, ensuring consistent data exchange and interoperability among departments.
- Overseeing architectural decision-making for connecting OpenGov with City systems, including legacy platforms (Accela, Oracle Forms, Clariti) and City infrastructure (API gateway, cloud, and data platforms).
- Establishing and upholding enterprise architecture standards pertaining to integrations, data exchange, GIS/addressing, identity, document management, and API design.
- Defining the integration layer that decouples City systems and user interfaces from OpenGov logic, ensuring long-term adaptability.
- Ensuring alignment with citywide strategies for cloud, cybersecurity, privacy, and digital transformation.
- Architecting the system landscape for PermitSF, including data synchronization, workflow coordination, data pipelines, GIS services, document management, and API/event-driven integrations.
- Occasionally executing light technical prototyping, configuration, or proof-of-concept work to validate integration strategies or architectural assumptions.
- Guiding implementation partners and vendors to ensure adherence to architecture and long-term sustainability.
- Providing advice on configuration trade-offs to minimize customizations and technical debt.
- Developing a roadmap for transitioning from legacy systems...

