Solutions Architect (Experienced)

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Salary Range

$99,700 - $196,100

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like

This position will be a key resource to the entire leadership team in Enterprise Information Management, leading a variety of IT architecture, integration, and technology roadmapping roles as well as supporting scaled agile process deployment and portfolio rationalization for the group.
The selected candidate will have to solve new and complex problems involving the selection and integration of a wide variety of on-prem and cloud-based technologies in support of business and IT drivers with little oversight and strong self-direction and leadership.
On any given day, you may be called upon to:

• Lead and communicate decision support and logic to senior staff and leadership around integration decisions, product/vendor/application technology selection, and other IT systems engineering needs
• Maintain technical stack and architecture cohesion among a large portfolio of applications and tools by teaming with IT project managers and solutions architects within information engineering
• Immediately engage on new group or center initiatives to understand impacts and implications to the existing EIM portfolio and envision solutions for piloting or future implementation of those initiatives
• Support functional customers and corresponding IT teams in understanding scope or challenges that could occur outside of the specific functional implementation
• Engage in agile process activities including structuring cohesive value streams, guiding release train structures and corresponding team and business structures, and serving in agile roles that may include those of a release train engineer, system architect, or product manager.

This position is eligible for telecommuting and the selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

Qualifications We Require

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management/Business Information Systems, or equivalent field, plus ten (10) years' experience; or a Master's degree in a related field plus six (6) years' experience
• Experience with complete lifecycle of development and deployment of complex software systems
• Experience with data architecture and data governance for operational systems
• Experience with agile development practices, including Scrum and SAFe
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance

Qualifications We Desire

• High level knowledge and expertise in:
  • Sandia's data governance, security models, and workflows
  • Data architecture, data ingest, and delivery
  • Modern database technologies (on-prem and cloud)
  • Structured and unstructured data
  • Data governance
  • Operations and maintenance, or deployment of Enterprise level production IT solutions
  • Leading software or COTS implementation projects
  • Architecting IT solutions to address customer requests and meeting requirements for complexity, scalability, and availability of solutions
  • Maintaining and development of site security plans, data protection, and the types of controls associated with them. Including knowledge of FedRAMP moderate and HIPAA
  • SNL infrastructure and integrations with technologies such as Enterprise Person and other HR applications, including SaaS
• Working knowledge of Sandia's Solutions Delivery Lifecycle (SDL)
• Experience with project planning, cost estimation, and managing scope, risk, and schedule
• Understanding of Systems Engineering disciplines particularly Requirements Management and Configuration Management
• Familiarity with the Sandia IT enterprise and architectures
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, Control-M scheduling, enterprise reporting, data virtualization and replication
• Experience with a computer programming language such as SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, SQL PowerShell, Shell scripting technologies

About Our Team

The 9730 group consists of multiple teams who collectively strive to provide a frictionless twenty-first century information environment where knowledge on Information Services, Systems and Storage & Retrieval is at your fingertips. We deliver contemporary, innovative, and awesome information solutions that meet our customers' and users' needs and expectations, and we have fun doing it! Our teams include professional web designers and developers, software engineers, solutions architects, computer scientists, business systems analysts, information management professionals, database experts, and project managers

About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov
*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.