Enterprise Architect

Swift • Tysons, VA

11d • Onsite

About The Position

The Swift Group is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused
services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities
include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement,
Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and
Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.

Swift is looking for an Enterprise Architect responsible for delivery of
customer-focused software and IT projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
This position works closely with the Customer to help set the technical
direction for the department. The ideal architect will advise on a scalable,
hybrid cloud integration for the program and support ongoing innovation to the
data environment. The role requires collaboration with software engineers, data
scientists, analysts, project managers, and other engineering groups. These
groups provide support in the areas of data extraction, transformation, and load
(ETL), data mapping, analytics, operations, databases, and maintenance of data
and associated systems. This position is open in either Tysons Corner, VA or
Warrenton, VA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 10+ years’ or work experience in information systems engineering and/or administration building and evolving a heterogeneous Windows and Linux networked environment.
• Experience should include implementation to maximize IT capabilities for data processing, systems, and user workflows.
• Expertise in building cloud-compatible, service-oriented, highly-scalable, and web-enabled enterprise application independent of platform, language, framework
• Experience operating and delivering in an Enterprise IT lifecycle, including System Security and Auditing, Data Processing and Analytics, Software development and methodologies, Technologies Transition
• Experience building and managing IT solutions in the IC
• Experience developing and managing IT solutions integrating cloud technologies
• Creating new and evolving existing large-scale data warehouses using COTS, GOTS, and open-source technologies that meet compliance, availability, and recovery requirements
• US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience transitioning legacy IT solutions in part or whole to cloud environment, engineering the solutions to take full advantage of the cloud platform
• Prior experience engineering integrated technical solutions to process and improve the exploitation of disparately collected high volume (a subset includes streaming) data types to meet near real-time operational requirements
• Familiarity with the technologies and processes to perform digital data and media forensics
• Demonstrated experience transitioning new/modern technologies into existing systems to advance capabilities and more effectively meet user functional and/or strategic requirements.
• Demonstrated experience delivering solutions using the technologies that comprise the Customer’s enterprise
• Prior experience working with the Customer on similar programs, missions, or in the IC.

Responsibilities

• Primarily strategic role with selective hands-on involvement to maintain and validate architectural integrity.
• While largely strategic, ensure architectural integrity through implementation, including review and oversight during delivery phases.
• Lead development of long-term plans for scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud, on-prem, networking, storage, and compute domains.
• Translate business objectives into actionable architectural initiatives understood across the organization.
• Provide technical direction and oversight to infrastructure architects, engineers, and cross-functional project teams.
• Promote innovation and continuous improvement in infrastructure design and operations.
• Ensure seamless interoperability between legacy systems, cloud platforms, and application ecosystems.
• Work closely with cybersecurity team to mitigate risks and enforce policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees