Enterprise Architect-Expert

Strategic ACI is seeking an Expert-level Enterprise Architect to provide strategic oversight and planning of the Corporate Enterprise Architecture (CEA) and to develop technical, strategic guidance for senior/mid- level architects in the creation and implementation approach of Enterprise architecture artifacts IAW DoDAF and IC PAG.

Responsibilities:

• Assist Government in directing architects in the development, maintenance, and documentation of the CEA, ensuring alignment to Customer's Strategy and CONOPs.
• Provide technical leadership enabling the customer to make informed, data-driven decisions and trade-offs between competing demands.
• Oversee and coordinate the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level Enterprise Architect contractors.
• Derivation, definition, and documentation of the right Resource, Functional, and Operational Capabilities and associated activities and services about Corporate, along with systems analysis necessary to define, document, and baseline the current CEA.
• Plan, design, and systems engineering work necessary to build and portray the future state of the CEA.
• Development of conceptual, logical, and physical architecture and technical roadmaps defining the time-phased schedule for the path of transition or transformation of systems and services from the baselined current state to the future state CEA; and program, segment, and project-based solution level architectures consistent with the enterprise-level architecture.

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Current and Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Expert-level experience, 18+ years
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or equivalent Expert-level work experience as an Enterprise Architect.
• Expert working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), or Intelligence Community’s (IC) Program Architecture Guidance (PAG).
• Demonstrated experience with the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture, Joint Capability Areas, the Unified Joint Task List, the IC’s Joint Reference Architecture Model, and the IC Core Reference Architecture.
• Demonstrated experience with the WhiteHouse, OMB, or GSA’s Shared Services initiative called Federal Integrated Business Framework to include the DoD and the IC’s End-to-End Business Processes such as Hire-to-Retire, Procure-to-Pay, Acquire-to-Retire, and Budget-to-Report.
• Demonstrated experience with the Defense Acquisition, the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development, and the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution processes.
• Demonstrated experience with leadership, orchestration, communication, engagement, and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting the DoD standard for Capability-Based Assessment employing strong critical and analytical skills.

Desired: 

• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools, and languages.
• Possesses Federated Enterprise Architect Certifications: Certified Enterprise Architect.
• Possesses National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace, Enterprise Architecture Certification.
• Experience architecting solutions using Cloud Based Technology such as: Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling, Rapid elasticity, Measured Service, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Experience architecting solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
• Experience architecting solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.