Job Details
Job Description:
Essential Function:
- Architecture and Strategy Development: Leads preparation of infrastructure architecture viewpoints and models depicting current, target, and interim states.
- Use current state viewpoints to identify and analyze pain points and opportunities (PPOs).
- Lead advanced modeling and analysis to meet the strategic needs of the organization with respect to system, information, functional/non-functional needs, performance and security/regulatory requirements.
- Create and utilize architecture patterns and ensure alignment with IT strategies and reference architectures.
- Ensure target state alignment and integration across architecture domains.
- Ensure upstream alignment / traceability to business needs via business architecture and downstream alignment / traceability with solution building blocks.
- Leads the extension / enhancement of infrastructure architecture strategies, standards, and guidelines.
- Architecture Consulting: Serve as consultative resource to Infrastructure, Operations & Security (IO&S) leadership and Client technical teams, business units, and external partners that are creating/developing/maintaining system designs in areas such as infrastructure, security, operations, integration, disaster recovery, and network management spanning multiple heterogeneous platforms.
- Advises Infrastructure leadership on transitioning to hybrid cloud architecture and impact on existing capabilities, process and skillsets.
- Architecture Management and Planning: Leads design, engineering and implementation of assets for internal use in solutions to improve solution quality; collaborate through implementation phase.
- Leads peer reviews and represents the infrastructure architecture domain in briefings to the Architecture Review Board.
- Oversees publishing and maintenance of viewpoints / work products in the architecture repository, ensuring they are organized, accurate, and accessible.
- Dispositions stakeholder comments / feedback received via project and non-project channels.
- Ensures that regulatory and compliance issues are addressed in solutions.
- Leads infrastructure assessments for most complex new / proposed projects for architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture.
- Provide input to project, product, and enterprise technology roadmaps.
- Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to infrastructure architecture.
- Solution / Vendor Selection: Represent the infrastructure architecture domain in the drafting of RFIs/RFPs and the evaluation / scoring of vendor proposals.
- Leads collaboration with other teams (business and technical), key stakeholders, and partners to understand needs to maximize architecture impact and address technical limitations.
- Leads the evaluation/selection of a solution design that aligns with IT strategies, standards, and guidelines.
- Infrastructure Operations Support: Provide technical leadership and direction on infrastructure and system integration matters, diagnosis / prevention of production problems, and assistance with communication of incident impacts to business and customers.
- Serve as primary representative / expert on core technologies for Disaster Recovery integration with the changing technical landscape.
- Develop and implement Operating and Service Level Agreements as well as implementation of ITIL processes, procedures and disciplines.
- Practice Improvement: Leads the development / enhancement of infrastructure architecture methods and tools.
- Ensures the alignment / integration of infrastructure architecture processes / deliverables with those of other architecture domains and SDLC disciplines. Leads development of infrastructure related communications / education materiel for use with stakeholders and architecture / SDLC partners.
- Emerging Technology and Innovation: Leads research emerging domain trends to determine their relevancy and fit for the organization.
Qualifications:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education Level:
- Bachelor's Degree.
Education Details:
- Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Experience:
- 10 years Experience in Architecture Domain.
- In Lieu of Education:
- In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
- Experience developing integrated roadmaps aligned with business, product, and architecture strategies.
- Experience elaborating architecture strategies to develop comprehensive action plans for adoption.
- Experience developing future state vision, strategies, roadmaps, patterns and standards.
- Experience development of domain strategies and roadmaps (i.e., application, infrastructure, security, or similar).
- Experience collaborating with procurement, legal and audit on vendor/technology selection.
- Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, and Visio.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):
- Ability to motivate and influence others so that project objectives are met in a timely manner. , Expert
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high quality solutions. , Expert
- Ability to coach, delegate, and develop architects and engineers., Expert
- Ability to managing cross-domain architecture solutions and issues., Expert
- Expertise with domain related architecture frameworks, methods and tools., Expert
- Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal) and collaboration., Expert
- Experience using architecture modeling tools (i.e., Orbus Infinity or similar).
- The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
- Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
- Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
- Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Licenses/Certifications:
- Certified System Architect Upon Hire Pref.
- Professional certification(s) relevant to infrastructure architecture (i.e., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.Professional, AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty, ITIL 4 Specialist, ITIL 4 Strategist, or similar).