Program Chief Architect

• Analyze and recommend improvements to existing infrastructure and service offerings, including guidance and support in modernizing and securing networks and refactoring applications and migrating remaining data center applications to cloud 

• Work in partnership with customers to understand and participate in the development of new mission support IT strategies assessing current and future skills and technologies to support emerging mission needs 

• Making recommendations to customers in the shaping of the future of enterprise architecture and roadmaps for the commands 

• Assesses DoD frameworks and help to ensure implemented use cases adhere to that framework. 

• Develop architecture and solutions focusing on scalability and extensibility. 

• Interface with government engineers/architects regarding architecture standards/guidelines/policies based on needs and anticipated technology advances. 

• Shape end-to-end architecture and design and work with the organization to implement solutions 

• Define templates and set best standards and practices that operational teams can utilize 

• Coordinate with platform vendors for issues and support requests. 

• Formulate the top-level architecture of the enterprise solution, including the hardware and software, topology and interconnects, so that the networks and services works as an integrated, cost-effective unit to satisfy each command requirements. 

• Constructs system hardware and software design criteria and identifies commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) or reused hardware/software that will fit the intended need 

• Perform tradeoffs between the candidate systems on performance, cost, schedule, risk, reliability, etc., using a structured decision analysis methodology to select the best candidate solution for further definition 

• Plan and execute analyses and simulations to estimate system performance, availability, reliability, etc., over the full range of operational scenarios, compares these to the requirements, and identify possible risk areas and performance trade-offs 

• Review current technology to evaluate capabilities and features 

• Develop a technology roadmap and a demonstration plan for higher technical risk components or subsystems (i.e., non-COTS components or components that require development that are near state-of-the-art levels) 

• Supports definition of technical performance measures (TPMs) and develops a plan for TPM goals versus requirements, and ways of calculating or measuring TPM values 

• Supports planning for verification of all requirements and interfaces through planning activities for analysis, simulation, or test 

• Participates in formal and informal reviews 

• Participates in internal program reviews 

• Identify the need for appropriate technical analyses, simulation, design, and verification/test tools and techniques 
  Reviews verification and test procedures 

• Acts as the technical gatekeeper of the program, so that cost and schedule pressures do not jeopardize solution quality and performance 

DESIRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Self-motivated and focused on delivering outcomes; ability to work independently and collaborate with remote teams 

• Strong communication skills (writing, speaking, and listening); ability to articulate solutions and rationale for design decisions. 

• Strong technical writing experience and experience presenting solutions to both business and technical stakeholders, to include leading technical section approaches 

• Navigate between different levels of technical detail across a breadth of technologies and capabilities to best understand what we currently have and appreciate the implications of recommendations of what is to be done 

• Experience in effectively managing cross-functional teams and/or servant leadership, managing conflict, and cultivating strong relationships. 

• Exhibits excellent listening skills and employs effective staffing retention and engagement strategies. Demonstrated ability to promote teamwork, compassion for people, and cultural and thought diversity. 

• Experience in designing and deploying enterprise systems architectures   

• Experience with DevSecOps in a hybrid multi-cloud environment (Google, AWS, Azure) including maturing existing CI/CD pipeline  

• Experienced with securing at least one of the following cloud service provider types: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) 

• Experience with Security Authorization & Accreditation (A&A) and obtaining Authorization To Operate (ATO) for new systems 

• Experience with Enterprise Agile/SAFE disciplines. 

• Experience with UIPath 

• Experience with Cloud Service Providers (Azure, AWS, Google) 

• Experience with databases, specifically Oracle 

• Experience with API Gateways such as MuleSoft, Azure Gateway Service 

• Knowledge of Container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes