Senior Enterprise Architect - Digital Transformation MVP

BCC-NIH

Oregon

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) seeks an Experienced Enterprise Software and Solution Architect to provide cross-functional technical leadership for NIH programs. The role focuses on agile delivery, digital transformation, and platform modernization across NLM/NCBI divisions, aligning IT strategy with research and operational goals.

Responsibilities include leading EA practices, documenting current state, building roadmaps, and mentoring a team of architects.

Qualifications

Experience as an Enterprise, Software, and/or Solution Architect.
Generalist, technical skills across the stack. Expert in at least one programming language. Solid Linux skills.
Experience with cloud technologies.
Deep understanding of architectural building blocks such as web application firewalls, load balancers, gateways, proxies, caching, queuing, messaging, data streaming systems, SQL and no-SQL data stores, file systems.

Responsibilities

Lead, promote, and inspire crosscutting adoption of Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices and principles.
Capture and document the current state of the software solutions, technology stacks, and system processes into a comprehensive catalog of existing resources.
Identify gaps in the current EA and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
Work collaboratively with the key stakeholders and engage cross-functional groups to develop consensus and credibility around the EA process.
Own the EA process, from input capture to implementation, allowing for organic growth and dynamic expansion while focusing on the high-priority projects and strategic initiatives.
Be a creative and flexible consensus-builder, provide deep subject matter expertise, advice, and coaching.
Learn new technologies and keep up with both traditional and emerging best practices.
Be practical and hands-on: lead development of prototypes, contribute and participate in the MVP efforts, optimize for speed of product delivery rather than perfection of the solution.
Ensure that solution architectures and designs are appropriately robust and address business, application, information and infrastructure architectural requirements.
Partner with CTO, other architects, TPMs, product owners and managers, tech leads, DevOps, and software engineers to build solutions aligned with EA standards and cybersecurity requirements.
Learn understand and champion organizational priorities.
Establish the EA community of practice as an inclusive environment of collaboration with a diverse team to get the best outcomes.
As a Team Lead: Lead a team of Enterprise Software and Solution Architects.
Define success metrics and KPI's for the overall team and the individual contributors, measure outcomes, and continuously assess effectiveness.
Ensure team members understand their duties and responsibilities.
Provide coaching and mentoring for the team, lead by example, and empower individual team members to meet and exceed expectations.