CO - P4535 - Enterprise Architecture and Security Operations Manager

DEQ•Richmond, VA

About The Position

DEQ’s Office of Information Services seeks a senior technical leader to own the agency’s enterprise architecture and lead day-to-day security operations and infrastructure delivery. This role manages the Security Operations Analyst and the Enterprise Infrastructure Team, who are responsible for managing, maintaining, and administering all enterprise cloud and on-premises virtual machine (VM) environments. The position ensures our technology landscape aligns with VITA architecture requirements, COV SEC530 information security standards, modern security operations, and industry best practices. The role is accountable for creating and maintaining the Agency Technical Architecture Plan (TAP), which—together with OIS operational roadmaps and the IT project portfolio—forms a major component of the Agency’s IT Strategic Plan. Incumbent will establish and maintain architecture standards, develop and refine IT change management practices, and ensure OIS delivers against short-term priorities and long-term IT strategic plans and operational roadmaps—including future planning, migrations, and coordination with VITA/service towers—to achieve a secure, resilient, and modernized IT ecosystem that accelerates DEQ’s mission

Requirements

Progressive experience in enterprise/solution architecture, Information Security, IT governance, or senior engineering.
Expereince managing technical teams (e.g., infrastructure/operations and/or security operations).
Proven leadership of architecture standards and process improvement in mid-to-large organizations.
Demonstrated alignment with VITA EA expectations and COV SEC530 compliance.
Experience establishing/operating Change and Release management practices in an ITIL-aligned environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent technical experience.
Certifications: TOGAF (or equivalent), ITIL v4, CISSP/CCSP (or comparable security), Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305); SAFe/Scrum and PMP/PMI-ACP are a plus.