Senior Enterprise Architect - Secret Clearance Required

Ignite IT; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Enterprise Architect, where you'll collaborate with innovative professionals to modernize enterprise systems. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in enterprise and data architecture to drive strategic planning and technology migration. Your contributions will enhance the safety and security of the nation while working in an Agile environment. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence architectural designs and processes, ensuring alignment with future state initiatives. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise architecture experience required.
• Proficiency in modeling tools like ARIS and Visio is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic planning and enterprise architecture guidance.
• Drive adoption of reference architectures and optimize processes.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Data Architecture

Agile Management

Collaboration Skills

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Software Engineering

Information Management Systems

Tools

ARIS

Visio

System Architect

Job description

Senior Enterprise Architect - Secret Clearance Required

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation's safety, security, and prosperity. As an Enterprise Architect, you will leverage your expertise in enterprise architecture and data architecture capabilities in collaboration with the customer.

Your Role:

• Provide strategic planning, enterprise architecture, and experience with emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with end user facing teams to define technology migration strategies and approaches.
• Drive adoption and adherence of reference architectures and initiatives to replace tactical solutions with strategic solutions.
• Provide guidance to end user facing teams on enterprise activities, architecture issues, and resolution definition.
• Perform architecture reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state.
• Advocate effective architectural designs and optimize current architecture and processes.
• Identify risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns.
• Actively support scalability, skill transfer and organizational change management by promoting visibility and real-life architecture representation.
• Ensure that appropriate resources are brought to bear on complex production issues affecting enterprise applications.
• Analyze project-related problems and create innovative solutions involving schedule, technologies, methodologies, tools, and solution components.
• Ensure product quality and timeliness of efforts.

What's Required:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen, with at least an Interim DoD Secret or higher.
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline. Experience acceptable in lieu of degree.
• At least seven (7) years of direct enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience in the current version of the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Enterprise Architecture conceptual modeling.
• Solid proficiency with modeling and documentation tools such as ARIS, Visio, System Architect.
• Experience in enterprise application design patterns.
• Experience in the agile management framework.
• Understanding of key business drivers.
• Experience with resolving problems and roadblocks as they occur, consistently following through on details while driving innovation as well as issue resolution.
• Excellent collaboration with Developers, Program Managers, Testers, and Production Support Engineers to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery.
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong written and verbal communication skills and work ethic; self-starter.
• Ability to integrate and work with Data Architects and Network Engineers.

Nice to have's:

• Technical Certifications such as Open Certified Architect, Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect, or other related technical certifications.
• Experience using enterprise modeling tools such as ARIS, Pro Vision, Cameo MagicDraw, System Architect.
• Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
• Experience working on unusually complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative and ingenious, exhibiting creativity, and resourcefulness.
• Understanding of DISA STIG.
• Experience working in the DoD IT environment.
• Full understanding of cloud technologies and architecture.
• Experience working with ECMA or JWCC on the migration of systems and applications to the cloud.
• Experience supporting EA efforts on a DoD, Army, or ARNG project.
• Understanding of WAN and ICAN architecture and technologies.
• Knowledge and/or experience with the use of APMS.
• Knowledge and/or experience with the use of eMASS.
• Knowledge and understanding of the reference architecture for the Zero Trust Architecture.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Army Unified Network Plan and ORGNET convergence initiatives.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Seniority level:

Mid-Senior level

Employment type:

Full-time

Job function:

Information Technology

Industries:

IT Services and IT Consulting