Software Architect

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Software Architect to work in Fairfax, VA.

ECS is seeking a Software Architect to lead the day-to-day activities and design and implement secure, scalable, and robust data analytics and application solutions for the Army National Guard (ARNG) portfolio; develop and maintain business, systems, and information processes to support enterprise mission needs; and develop IT rules and requirements that describe baseline and target architectures.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establishing and maintaining a comprehensive software engineering program that rapidly delivers secure and working products and software solutions, as well as providing a software engineering program that applies to all relevant fields of engineering to include physical systems, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and management of software systems across the ARNG Enterprise portfolio.
• Establishing software development lifecycle and engineering processes and organize for development and operations based on the Agile methodology.
• Establishing a Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) pipeline that builds in security and maximizes the concept of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) that automates build, integration, and testing processes.
• Developing a Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) plan and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) plan that describes the end-to-end and detailed management approach.
• Establishing an organizational structure and cross-functional teams to support all efforts.
• Establishing domain expertise in ARNG Enterprise functional areas to understand the needs of stakeholders and develop an adaptive stance to manage change; in particular, the full range of operations across the Army Force Management Model which includes Total Army Analysis (TAA) and Programming, Planning, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE), application of Global Force Management Data Initiative (GFM DI) in the Army, Global Force Management (Joint Publication 1-02), and the concepts of Dynamic Force Structure (DFS), Dynamic Force Employment (DFE), and Deploy to Redeploy (D2R).
• Establishing an enterprise design to identify and implement the "as-is," "transitory," and "to-be" states to realize requirements.
• Facilitating the transition of products from the "as-is" state to the "to-be" end state in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• For products without a defined "to-be" state, establishing a collaborative working relationship with the Government and functional proponents to develop and implement an appropriate end state for the entire portfolio.
• As part of the portfolio's "to-be" state, delivering an enterprise force management capability to support follow-on requirements in support of the ARNG G6.
• Managing the evolution of underlying, disparate, and distributed ARNG Enterprise infrastructure solutions to an enterprise solution IAW DoD guidance for cloud and application migration and consolidation.
• Managing the data layer of supported systems by executing and nesting with efforts such as data cleansing. Examples of data efforts include supporting the Army Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Unified Data initiative, implementation of the GFM DI standard (see Department of Defense Manual (DoDM) 8260.03 Volume 1 and Volume 2), and compliance with the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC).
• Establishing a measurement method to enable the ARNG Enterprise to qualitatively and quantitatively understand and make informed decisions on quality, cost, schedule, and performance.
• Delivering and managing a set of artifacts and data to enable full auditability.
• Utilizing commercial items and processes

Required Skills

• Eight or more years of progressive experience in software development, with a minimum of three or more years in a software or data architect role.
• Hands-on experience with data analytics technologies, including data warehousing, extract, transform, load (ETL) tools, and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop).
• Possess an ITIL 4 certification with the Managing Professional Framework or higher.
• Possess the appropriate certifications to achieve DoDM 8140.03 qualification requirements for the DCWF work role 651 (Enterprise Architect).
• Possess a TS clearance with eligibility for SCI.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or Software Engineering.

Desired Skills

• Experience managing service operations as a service manager against SLAs on a DoD contract.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, and experience with command-line tools for automation and data manipulation.
• Experience with Continuity of Operations (COOP)/Continuity of Government (COG) planning.
• Expertise in designing and implementing solutions using cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or Google Cloud.

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ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3300+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.