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Enterprise Architect
Location : Washington, DC/Alexandria, VA/Carrollton, MD (Hybrid)
Duration : 12 Months Contract
Interview Types: In Person
Job Description
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Align broader strategic vision around business needs, resulting in technology roadmaps.
- Conduct business capabilities mapping and cataloging business processes.
- Confer with business units and application development staff to understand both the business and technical requirements and to define architectural constraints.
- Define and maintain the architectural frameworks/patterns, processes, standards, and guidelines related to all aspects of the Digital Ecosystem. Create and maintain diagrams of as-is and to-be architectures.
- Provide technical and architectural subject matter expertise to various project teams, including development of technology decision-making frameworks and supporting technology decisions throughout the technology lifecycle.
- Establish governance best-practices and standards to streamline the technology implementation lifecycle for both off-the-shelf and homegrown solutions including on premises and cloud (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) architectures.
- Support the agency s data governance program including development of policies & standards, roles & responsibilities needed to ensure data is managed as an enterprise asset.
- Facilitate technology change management programs and support enterprise technology initiatives.
- Create and assess performance metrics to determine the effectiveness of architecture and governance initiatives.
- Maintain an eye toward continuous improvement of all architecture and governance systems, practices, policies, and artifacts.
- Produce complete and accurate documentation for work based on best practices & client standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the authority.
Skills/Experience Required:
- Bachelor s degree in computer engineering, computer science, information systems management, or related field and experience commensurate with the requested level; if no degree, equivalent experience in database administration, IT systems management, or software/cloud/data engineering
- Seven (7) years of professional experience working with technology systems engineering, management, or architecture.
- Two (2) years of professional experience related to enterprise architecture, IT governance, or data governance.
- Two (2) years of professional experience working within large technology enterprises.
- Two (2) years of experience with a recognized enterprise architecture framework (TOGAF, FEAF, Zachman International, etc.).
- Two (2) years of engineering or architecture experience with cloud services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or Azure.
- Two (2) years of experience with data management technologies & solutions.
- Familiarity with modern software/cloud technologies including containers, data pipelines, data lakes, CI/CD, integration platforms, DevSecOps, zero trust.
- Familiarity enterprise application platforms including PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion, Adobe Experience Platform, ServiceNow, Power Platform.
Additional Skills:
- Proficient in MS Office suite, MS Visio, or other technology visualization software
- Strong visual communication skills: technical schematics and architecture diagrams, slide decks, data visualization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including experience developing as-is and to-be documentation of enterprise technology environments, developing policy and procedure documents, and project charters.
- Ability to alternate focus from big-picture, enterprise, strategic viewpoints to tactical, detailed perspectives.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess business requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to determine work requirements and perform work without supervision.
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks within restrictive timeframes.
- Detail-oriented, able to work independently, self-motivated, proactive team player.
Required/Desired Skills:
Skill | Required /Desired | Amount of Experience | Candidate Experience |
professional experience working with technology systems engineering, management, or architecture | Required | 7 Years |
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professional experience related to enterprise architecture, IT governance, or data governance. | Required | 2 Years |
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professional experience working within large technology enterprises. | Required | 2 Years |
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experience with a recognized enterprise architecture framework (TOGAF, FEAF, Zachman International, etc.). | Required | 2 Years |
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engineering or architecture experience with cloud services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or Azure. | Required | 2 Years |
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experience with data management technologies & solutions. | Required | 2 Years |
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familiar with modern software/cloud technologies including containers, data pipelines, data lakes, CI/CD, integration platforms, DevSecOps, zero trust | Required | 1 Year |
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Familiarity enterprise application platforms including PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion, Adobe Experience Platform, ServiceNow, Power Platform | Required | 1 Year |
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BS degree in comp engineering, comp science, info systems management, or related field or equivalent professional experience (4 years beyond minimum) | Required | 0 |