Senior Enterprise Architect

Astrion•Bedford, MA

1d•$130,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

Senior Enterprise Architect LOCATION: Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA Salary Range: $130,000-$150,000 annually depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications JOB STATUS: Full-time CLEARANCE: Secret TRAVEL: As Needed Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Enterprise Architect located at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, MA providing support to the Aerospace Management Division (ESA). The Aerospace Management Systems Division programs develops delivers, and sustains air traffic management and landing systems, CNS/ATM avionics expertise, and weather sensing/forecast capabilities enabling military and civil customers to achieve their mission.

Requirements

Education: Master’s or Doctorate Degree in a related field and ten years of experience, five years of which must be in the DoD
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 12 years of experience, five of which must be in the DoD
15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, eight of which must be in the DoD
Clearance: Must have an ACTIVE Secret Clearance

Responsibilities

Develops reference models of the enterprise and maintaining the information in the IT repository
Determines the gaps between the current and the target architecture and recommending plans for transitioning to target architecture
Recommending the policies and principles to guide technology decisions for the enterprise architecture
Identifies opportunities to improve enterprise-level systems to support business processes and utilize emerging technologies
Promotes and educates customers and stakeholders on the use and value of the enterprise architecture
Provides enterprise architecture guidance, support, and coordination to customers and IT project teams
Documents the enterprise architecture infrastructure, including the business units and key processes, using modeling techniques
Ensures technical integration is achieved across the enterprise by participating in test planning, validation, and reviews
Evaluates the impact of enterprise architecture products and services on IT investments, business operations, stakeholder satisfaction, and other outcomes
Coordinates and conducts governance and portfolio management activities associated with ensuring compliance with the enterprise architecture; and/or ensuring the rigorous application of information security/ cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to all components of the enterprise architecture
Supports implementation and execution of agile software execution in concert with Government and Prime contractors
Supports and advises on development of service oriented architectures for software development
Provides support for software architecture and design, development and evaluation of standards and services required to promote the requirements defined by and developed through user centered design
Advises software architecture, enterprise activities and working groups, which include but are not limited to; Meta-Data Management Team, DCGS Enterprise Technical Working Group, DCGS Operation Technical Working Group, DCGS Knowledge Management Team, Operational Users Focus Team and Test and Evaluation Focus Team
Supports documentation development and review, briefings, training material development, implementation, integration and fielding of products and support to technical interchanges via teleconference or in person
Provides recommendations in making software design choices
Engages in the design of the architecture of the platform/hardware environment where software will be deployed
Provides solutions and assistant to the Common Data Fabric effort in support of Government personnel
Interfaces with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders in order to determine their (evolving) needs
Performs cost–benefit analyses, as requested, to determine whether requirements are best met by manual, software, or hardware functions; making maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf or already developed components
Performs an interfacing function, on behalf of the Government engineers, with the design and implementation engineers and architects, so that any problems arising during design or implementation can be resolved IAW the fundamental design concepts, and user needs and constraints
Ensures that a maximally robust design is development
Assists in generating a set of acceptance test requirements, together with the designers, test engineers, and the user, which determine that all of the high-level requirements have been met, especially for the computer-human-interface
Assists in ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete
Provides systems engineering and support technical evaluations and analysis and document development and review
Provides recommendations regarding the establishment and composition of services and capabilities
Provides recommendations to align the enterprise architecture product(s) development with industry and Government technology best practices, standards and specifications
Provides engineering support to continually assess impacts of new standards on enterprise software design and implementation
Conducts technical exchange sessions supporting enterprise architecture and design including technical exchanges with enterprise community stakeholders
Conducts user site visits, telecons, and other direct and indirect support for tasks as directed
Ensures that architecture and standards development activities support implementable products and functionality
Translates emerging and accepted architecture standards into backlog use case descriptions and support understanding of new requirements as part of the agile development process including but not limited to test driven development, continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline
Experience working directly with modern software applications, products, and intel tools
Problem solve and troubleshoot various situations to develop successful outcomes within established program/project guidelines