Senior Enterprise Architect

SAIC•Flexwork, VA

About The Position

SAIC is currently seeking creative, dedicated, motivated, career and customer-oriented professionals for the role of a Senior Enterprise Architect, to fulfill their career goals and objectives while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance with our large Enterprise Application Support Program. The selected candidate will provide overall support for architecting and building solutions for Mainframe Modernization including Migration and Transformation of Legacy Applications to modern Infrastructure/Architecture including the Cloud. The selected candidate will be a Trusted Technical Advisor to the SAIC Program Manager (PM) and the supported team to be a thought leader with expertise in technical areas, specializing in Enterprise Architecture with specialization in Open Database technologies, Cloud and associated platforms and tools.

Requirements

Specializing in Enterprise Architecture
Specialization in Open Database technologies
Expertise in Cloud and associated platforms and tools
Experience with Mainframe Modernization
Experience with Migration to Cloud
Knowledge of Agile/SDLC engineering and architecture artifacts and standards
Experience with IT Infrastructure and Applications Architecture
Experience with database structures and models
Experience developing data pipelines
Experience with ETL processes
Experience integrating data from different sources
Experience developing data APIs and automation scripts
Experience monitoring and optimizing database and data processing system performance
Experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting data issues

Nice To Haves

Mentoring and Training Support to Junior or Mid-level Application Developers and Database Engineers

Responsibilities

Serves as a trusted technical advisor to the Program Manager and the supported team.
Provide technical guidance and advice regarding IT systems in general.
Implement governance and control as well as standards across the portfolio.
Tracking, monitoring, and updating status on technology (e.g., cloud, AI/ML) services and architecture.
Provide Technical guidance and Expert advice in areas of Mainframe Modernization, including Migration to Cloud, etc.
Provide Advisory support on IT applications architecture with the latest technologies (e.g., Cloud, AI/ML, GenAI, LLM, etc.), validity, applicability, and relevance.
Engage in defining, developing, and keeping current Agile/SDLC engineering and architecture artifacts and standards.
Provide oversight of Agile/SDLC reviews, including change management to ensure compliance with standards and required guidance.
Recommend solutions for unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions, which are highly innovative and ingenious relating to both IT Infrastructure and Applications Architecture.
Maintain a library of PMO documents and build a repository of project templates for both technical and management to support the project managers.
Supporting portfolio, program, project-level business process analysis, mapping, improvements, reporting, market research, and internal outreach and communications.
Translate business processes into workflows and dashboards, where needed.
Design and implement effective database structures and models to store, retrieve, and analyze data.
Develop, construct, test, and maintain scalable data pipelines to collect, process, and integrate data from various sources.
Implement ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to ensure data consistency and quality.
Integrate data from different sources, ensuring consistency, reliability, and accuracy.
Develop data APIs and automation scripts to streamline data integration and workflows.
Monitor and optimize database and data processing system performance.
Conduct performance tuning and troubleshoot data issues.
Provide Mentoring and Training Support to Junior or Mid-level Application Developers and Database Engineers, as needed.