Master Enterprise Architect

Accenture Federal Services•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

At Accenture Federal Services, our purpose is to make the US federal government stronger and safer, and to improve lives. We are a technology company within Accenture, with over 13,000 employees dedicated to leveraging technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. We are recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, offering a collaborative and supportive community that empowers growth through hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training. We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to support a federal customer in defining, managing, and updating an enterprise technology roadmap. This role involves creating engineering guidance for implementing roadmap technologies to meet evolving mission requirements and security policies. Responsibilities include designing and documenting new architectures, performing technical analysis, developing prototypes, and recommending implementation best practices. The ideal candidate has experience designing on-premises services for large enterprises, reviewing and implementing technical designs, and supporting migration to government public clouds. Key skills include translating business requirements and policy into actionable architecture, communicating effectively with C-suite executives, and creating detailed technical implementation guidance for engineering teams.

Requirements

10 years of experience translating business requirements into an actionable technology roadmap using a standard documenting framework such as DODAF or TOGAF.
5 years of experience with the creation of technical implementation guidance that provides the architecture and configuration framework for engineering implementation and integration.
5 years of experience with Service Design (requirements identification, identification of Courses of Action (CoAs), market evaluation and assessment of technologies and products through a quantitative process, and design and integration into the production environment) at a large enterprise (500+ users) and across multiple data centers.
5 years of experience designing and operating a highly available workload hosting and data architectures across multiple data centers in support of an organization’s DR and COOP requirements.
5 years of experience creating technical specifications and defining enterprise standards to ensure compatibility between services, applications, and tools.
Experience supporting the Microsoft suite of Enterprise services (AD, Exchange, SharePoint, file shares).
Experience designing and supporting VMware based virtual hosting environments.
Experience with frameworks for managing data center assets and power budgets.
5 years of experience monitoring vendor roadmaps, evaluating products through unbiased quantitative analysis based assessments, and defining an enterprise roadmap using best of breed that considers a multi-vendor approach.
3 years of experience with enterprise change control and Federal Risk Management Framework (RMF) where you have led the change from design creation to ATO.
An active Top Secret federal security clearance is required.

Nice To Haves

Excellent written and verbal communication: Effective verbal and non-verbal communication with peers and C-Suite level customer leadership.
Experience in project and task management using the Agile framework.
Experience with strategies for migrating to and operating services in a public government cloud (i.e. AWS, Azure, Google), while retaining on-premises capabilities (Hybrid Cloud).
Zero Trust implementation for federal at target or advanced level.
Experience implementing automated identity governance and/or implementing a Federal Enterprise ICAM capability.
Experience with implementing RBAC or ABAC policies and access controls to enterprise resources.
Experience with data engineer to include data discovery, cataloging, labeling, and access control requirements to address organizational data policies.
Experience with CI/CD DevSecOps, from building pipeline tools to production deployment.

Responsibilities

Define, manage, and update an enterprise technology roadmap.
Create engineering guidance for the implementation of roadmap technologies.
Design and document new architectures.
Perform technical analysis.
Develop working prototypes.
Recommend implementation best practices through detailed engineering guidance.
Translate business requirements, policy, and investigative insights into actionable architectural solutions.
Communicate effectively through executive briefings to C-Suite.
Create detailed standards-based technical implementation guidance for engineering teams.
Support the Microsoft suite of Enterprise services (AD, Exchange, SharePoint, file shares).
Design and support of VMware based virtual hosting environments.
Develop frameworks for managing data center assets and power budgets.
Monitor vendor roadmaps, evaluate products through unbiased quantitative analysis, and define an enterprise roadmap using a best-of-breed, multi-vendor approach.
Manage enterprise change control and Federal Risk Management Framework (RMF), leading changes from design creation to ATO.
Engage with users professionally and present technical concepts plainly to semi-technical customers.
Implement Zero Trust at a target or advanced level for federal environments.
Implement automated identity governance and/or a Federal Enterprise ICAM capability.
Implement RBAC or ABAC policies and access controls to enterprise resources.
Engage in data engineering, including data discovery, cataloging, labeling, and access control requirements.
Implement CI/CD DevSecOps, from building pipeline tools to production deployment.