Solution Architect

Solutions Architect

US Department of Transportation (USDOT)

Position Location: New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC

ship Required

Position Summary:

This position is in the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Office of Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) and reports to the Associate CIO for Infrastructure and Operations. The Office of Infrastructure and Operations integrates innovative IT services into comprehensive solutions to enable secure effective business operations for the DOT and provide direct services to DOT customers. The office is responsible for the IT strategic planning; business and mission services, computer services, IT security, program and project management, business process re-engineering; service desk, configuration management, server engineering, network engineering, incorporating new and maintaining existing information technology capabilities for the COE.

Essential Functions:

• As a leader or principal analyst, leads and coordinates the efforts of other IT Specialists and contractors in solving complex and far-reaching technical architecture issues and problems for a wide range of systems, applications, and customers.
• The Solution Architects fortify COE (Centers of Excellence) functional areas, and the responsibility of this position is to bring technical industry best practices to bare in the COE environment.
• We are seeking an expert who has in-depth knowledge and experience with real enterprise level networking, servers/hosting, Cloud, datacenter, telephony, enterprise IT monitoring, with experience planning and road mapping technologies.
• Technologies include, but not limited to, CISCO, Palo Alto, MS Windows, Linux, SolarWinds, SCCM, ServiceNow, Apple, AT&T MTIPS, TIC 3.0, NetBond, AWS, Checkpoint, Cormant, Dell EMC, Oracle, Plixer, PolyComm, Quest, Ribbon, T-Metrics, Varonis, Entrust, Infoblox, Keysight, Micro Focus, NetApp, Netrounds, Verizon, M365, Kiteworks, and Whatsup Gold.
• Responsible for developing short and long-term roadmaps for single technologies and entire technology stacks from end to end.
• Develop, implement, and ensure compliance with plans, policies, standards, infrastructures, and architectures that establish the framework for the management of all IT programs.
• Analyze, plan, design, document, assess and manage the IT enterprise structural framework to align enterprise systems with the mission, goals and processes of the user organizations.
• Formulate, plan, implement, manage, track and evaluate large scale and extremely complex IT enterprise solution architecture projects and their associated requirements and risks
• Responsible for communicating complex and non-complex IT issues clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Experience

• Senior level experience in customer facing technical roles that assess customer requirements and define solutions based on those requirements
• Mid-level experience in technical design and specification creation for a large-scale enterprise environment
• Senior level experience in managing technical delivery with demonstrated experience in cross team solution design and implementation
• Strong leadership skills, critical thinking skills, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration with an ability to build strong partnership with others
• Proven, demonstratable experience designing and implementing scaled production software solutions

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