Application Architect

barrowwise; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is seeking an Application Architect for its WMATA project. The candidate will develop current and future state architectures, lead architecture decisions, and apply TOGAF and other frameworks to guide enterprise baselines across business, information, and infrastructure domains.

Strong communication with stakeholders and experience in governance improvements are essential. Prior transit-operations experience and mentoring abilities are highly valued for collaboration

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required as part of security/compliance.
• 10 years’ experience as an enterprise architect using a standard framework.
• Enterprise Architecture certification (CEA, TOGAF).
• Experience with enterprise architecture repositories and tools (Abacus).
• Experience interviewing and documenting stakeholder inputs to enterprise projects.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Experience in the transit industry and ability to mentor peers.

Responsibilities

• Develop current and future state application architectures, including business transformation and risk/opportunity analysis.
• Lead and manage architecture design, documenting decisions and rationale.
• Apply industry frameworks (FEAF, TOGAF, Zachman) to guide enterprise baselines.
• Review and align technology paradigms with enterprise data center architecture.
• Translate user behavior into enterprise information system elements and workflows.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

TOGAF

Governance

Stakeholder interviews

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Abacus

Job description

Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is seeking an Application Architect for its WMATA project.

Responsibilities

The Application Architect will support Barrow Wise's WMATA project and perform the following duties:

• Develop current and future state application architectures, including business transformation, identifying potential risks and opportunities, capturing the rationale for architecture design decisions, negotiating conflicting requirements, improving architectural documentation quality, and facilitating clear articulation of architectural artifacts (Business, Information, Application, Infrastructure, Integration, Security, etc.) recommendations to ensure value‑driven sustainable architectural perspectives.
• Apply experience in leading, managing, architecting, designing, installing, configuring and administering the Enterprise Architecture tools and technology platform.
• Apply industry standard architectural frameworks (such as FEAF, TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) to the WMATA enterprise to guide and update the architectural baselines within the enterprise.
• Follow industry standards and best practices to enable an effective review process for a multitude of technology paradigms within the transit industry and alignment with proposed enterprise data center technology and framework.
• Apply design principles based on Software‑defined Networks/Application aware network.
• Participate in strategic discussions and associated architecture building block review processes.
• Analyze and review business capability architecture and translate it into an effective information architecture, features, functionalities, etc.
• Translate user behavior into structured elements, attributes, process workflows, user scenarios, storyboards, etc. for Enterprise information systems – PeopleSoft, Maximo, Kronos, Hyperion, Hastus, Trapeze, etc.
• Ensure business, functional, technical and information processes are reviewed and validated to meet the enterprise expectations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Ideal Candidate

• US Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 10 years’ experience as an enterprise architect using a standard architectural framework.
• Enterprise Architecture certification (CEA, TOGAF).
• Experience developing business capability, information, and data architecture.
• Experience with enterprise architecture repositories and tools (Abacus).
• Experience interviewing and documenting stakeholder inputs to enterprise architecture projects.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel to perform basic financial analysis of business processes.
• Great with MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Visio.
• Proven ability to implement IT governance process improvements.
• Perform high‑caliber qualitative and quantitative analyses.
• Ability to meet the requirements of the deliverables listed above.
• Experience in the transit industry.
• Ability to mentor, collaborate and coordinate with peers, customers, and stakeholders.

Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is an equal‑opportunity, drug‑free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LBGT.