Sr. Enterprise Architect

Title: Sr. Enterprise Architect

Location: Washington DC - 100% remote work

Term: Full Time- Permanent

Client: USDA - Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)

Trigent Solutions provides support to the Chief Architect at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). Our project team works closely with stakeholders from all divisions of the OCFO organization and across USDA to analyze and implement solutions that meet customer needs. Our team's services span Enterprise Architecture (EA), Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), customer engagement, business analysis, requirements gathering, process improvement, solution formulation, organizational change management, Section 508 compliance, and risk management.

The Enterprise Architect Business Analyst will be engaged in all aspects of a maturing EA program, including helping to plan and implement EA program capabilities, developing EA artifact, performing assessments related to all architecture domains for compliance and consistency with Agency-level EA, review and analyze related governance processes for harmonization with EA program capabilities, collaborate with operational / technical SMEs and Standards personnel to identify architecture gaps, overlaps and inefficiencies, and develop recommendations for changes to improve enterprise architecture across all EA domains. Responsibilities include gathering detailed business requirements, creating strategic project plans and cost estimates, and working with stakeholders across the agency to implement solutions that meet customer needs.

Basic Qualifications (Required)

• 8+ years experience in federal government consulting
• Flexible to support a range of special EA, IT, and business projects and ad hoc tasks from client leadership
• Intense curiosity for emerging IT trends and a passion for problem-solving
• Ability to learn new systems or processes quickly to communicate stakeholder needs and drive towards solution development
• Comfortable working with senior executive leadership and managing stakeholder engagement for high-visibility projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Active Public Trust (or ability to obtain Public Trust), U.S. Citizenship required

General Responsibilities

• Proactively engage with clients to identify challenges, recommend solutions, and manage expectations across different stakeholder groups
• Liaison between project teams, client leadership, teaming partners, and customer stakeholders to promote integration, collaboration, and innovative thinking
• Identify and solve the core business need, turning vague or aspirational business requirements into clear and concise functional and non-functional requirements
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously and translate stakeholder inputs into a comprehensive strategy and plan for each project
• Drive discovery and implementation efforts for maturing customer requirements and aligning proposed IT and EA solutions to organizational objectives
• Demonstrate thought leadership and business savvy with the ability to make recommendations and tailor solutions for a diverse group of stakeholders

Demonstrated Experience and Understanding

The Enterprise Architect Business Analyst shall have demonstrated experience and understanding of each of the following:

• Knowledge of Federal IT mandates including FITARA and FISMA policies
• The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF); including scope, direction, and governance practices.
• General Accountability Office (GAO) EA Maturity Management Framework (EAMMF) model, how it is scored and how to advance against the scorecard, and other EA management maturity models, such as those of TOGAF and IT Scoring models.
• Experience with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
• EA Best-practice experience from other Federal agencies.
• Working knowledge of Industry EA Best Practices.
• Working knowledge of capital planning and investment control (CPIC) procedures and practices and its interaction with EA.
• Development of EA program standard procedures, artifact specifications, and artifact content creation.
• EA Governance oversight/leadership, governance procedures, governance body creation and establishment, and governance implementation across the EA Program.
• EA Policy development, vetting, establishment, and monitoring.
• Experience building working relationships with program and project managers to understand their role in evolving the EA.
• Experience in the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), or similar development implementation frameworks, especially those that implement integrated program and project governance across an enterprise.
• Experience with EA program specification, research, implementation, and management.
• EA Repository and tool analysis, evaluation, implementation, configuration, support, integration, support, administration, training, and content creation.
• Section 508 laws, regulations, and policies.
• Section 508 implementation through roles, responsibilities, and procedures, duties, expectations, outcomes, and compliance throughout various levels of the enterprise.
• Section 508 compliance evaluation.