Enterprise Architect

Location: Fairfax area, VA. Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.

About the role

The client's office supports an air-gapped standalone network that provides enterprise application functions to approximately 3000 users. The client requires enterprise architecture and engineering expertise to assist the Chief Architect in modernization efforts relating to the program's entire IT stack to include secure phone, network, internet facing systems and platform architecture. The contractor will need strong engineering experience with a deep understanding of client environments to independently develop decision-quality architecture products. Additionally, the client requires support for a ServiceNow platform deployed across an enterprise domain.

Responsibilities

• Perform a review of client's secure and unsecure phone system, network and platform hardware, software, network environments and identify individual application and enterprise systems and services that can be modernized or optimized, taking into account the interactions between the application systems and services, and their relationships to client core business processes
• Assist the client to assess lifecycle status, obsolescence, duplication, interoperability, standards alignment, investment dependencies, and modernization opportunities
• Identify cross-domain dependencies, gaps, redundancies, constraints, risks, and considerations across infrastructure, applications, data, security, identity, cloud, and network
• Evaluate relevant technologies and trends; identify mission-aligned use cases; frame expected value, risk, dependencies, and adoption considerations
• Provide technology recommendations to advise and develop the client’s Enterprise technology roadmap, used to predict end of life equipment and tech
• Work in partnership with the Chief Architect on further iterations of this roadmap
• Provide actionable adoption, sustainment, migration, consolidation, and retirement recommendations for hardware and software
• Help prepare decision packages for internal client review boards or client IT leadership that clearly document outcomes, alternatives, assumptions, dependencies, tradeoffs, costs, risks, technical-debt implications, standards impact, and recommendations
• Coordinate technical proposals and recommendations with client engineering teams who will partner to develop and deploy the architecture solutions
• Deliver concise executive briefings and clearly communicate the overall cost associated (OCA) with proposed architecture and value to client including value proposition, available services, decisions influenced, risks reduced, and modernization progress
• Develop and maintain enterprise reference architectures, conformance criteria, and exception guidance; develop and maintain current-state, target-state, and transition-state architecture products such as engineering designs
• Assess OCA maturity, stakeholder demand, current architecture activities, and capability gaps
• Develop and maintain a prioritized list of proposed architecture initiatives with associated costs, intake process, work plan, methods, templates, repository structure, and performance measures
• Coordinate products with Client IT departments, and other program stakeholders, to ensure they are authoritative, reusable, implementable, and operationally supportable

Requirements

• Demonstrates experience with enterprise architecture leadership in a complex, federated, regulated, or mission-oriented IT enterprise.
• Demonstrates experience establishing or maturing an EA practice, preferably from a low-maturity or start-up condition.
• Demonstrates experience with business architecture skills, including capability modeling, value streams, operating models, stakeholder outcomes, and investment framing.
• Demonstrates experience with technology strategy, portfolio management