Description
SAIC’s Information Technology Office (ITO) is
seeking a highly effective people, process, technology and an Enterprise
Architect Applications part of the Enterprise Architecture & Cloud
Strategies (EA&CS) team to architect the enterprise for public, private and
hybrid cloud delivery. This person is will be instrumental in SAIC’s overall
application strategy for cloud services. This position is a key contributor
role and will report directly to the Director of Enterprise Architecture &
Cloud Strategies. As part of the EA&CS team, you will be leading working
with other architects in the Future State Architecture (FSA) definition and
implementation across our business technology portfolios. Enterprise Architect
Applications drives EA&CS core mission enabling our business processes with
new and innovative ways, achieving SAIC’s Information Technology Office
strategic objectives including Modernizing Technology, Business, Data,
Application and Technology architecture and delivery services / value to our
business through translating business requirements into specific systems,
application or process designs for complex IT solutions. This person should be
a respected leader who works well with others, has enough charisma to influence
and guide other in challenging situation and is motivated by long-term results
while addressing short-term needs.
This position will be part of the Cloud Center of
Excellence (CCoE). This person must have strong EA and system engineering with
Cloud services in provisioning, automation DevOps, AWS, Azure technologies and
best practices. This position will be responsible of leading the organization
of subject matter experts in their functional are and defining SAIC / ITO
future directions, standards and best practices in Cloud Services within the
CCoE.
This individual works closely with individuals to address
Enterprise IT modernization, Data Center operations, Cloud and Digital
Transformation and Cloud Services Adoption. The Application Enterprise
Architect also work closely with other ITO teams and Engineers to understand
and implement organizational constructs that support efficient enterprise
program execution
Job
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with key individuals that includes
product managers, architects and senior engineering management, across Product
Development and Cloud Operations organizations for coming up with a modern
Infrastructure and Application architecture.
- Lead the architecture definition for taking SAIC / ITO applications to a true SaaS model, by revamping existing architecture significantly, and adding new elements to the architecture.
- Responsible for defining/creating
Enterprise Technology Roadmaps and communicating architecture vision/roadmap to
the customer and stakeholders.
- Drive collaboration across teams to
ensure activities align with Enterprise IT vision.
- Collaborate with teams to conduct
trade studies that support architecture concepts for software and hardware,
including capacity planning and for designing, developing, and analyzing
software-based products and systems.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies,
tools, and process to ensure successful delivery of highest quality products
and innovative solutions that are scalable.
- Develop and/or maintain guiding
documents, such as mission service transition plans and EA artifacts.
- Provide technical guidance and
leadership to program team members while encourage innovated solutions to
complex system problems.
- Collaborate with government
stakeholders and internal team to ensure product meets customer requirements
and expectations.
- Support all aspects of the current
and planned future state of the Core user capabilities: analytics,
collaboration, enabling services, and search and discovery.
- Establish customized processes that
align to program goals and objectives, also actively promote and engage in
process improvement initiatives.
Additional Duties:
- The individual will provide enterprise architecture expertise to translate and enterprise strategy into future enterprise architecture and transition plan (i.e. roadmap) to achieve the future state.
- They will provide strategic and technical knowledge for enterprise cloud architecture to address the challenges of providing innovative and transformative public and hybrid cloud solutions supporting SAIC’s work for the DoD and Federal government.
- Provides enterprise architecture expertise to translate an enterprises strategy into a future enterprise architecture and a transition plan (i.e. roadmap) to achieve that future state.
- Uses multi-disciplinary techniques, for example business process decomposition and redesign, information engineering, organizational redesign, change management, IT strategy and architecture, and performance measurement, to assist in enterprise business transformation and EA implementation.
- Interacts at a variety of points within the enterprises governance process to assist in implementation of the transition plan, to include organizational strategy development, capital planning and investment control, portfolio and project management, systems development, and operations.
- Conducts EA reviews and analyses of architectures to ensure compliance with EA policy.
- Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes and procedures to ensure EA policy compliance or to improve the EA.
- Coordinates and collaborates with subject matter expert and other architects to reflect reengineered business processes into the EA.
- Defines, develops, and provides expertise and guidance on EA processes, policies, roles and responsibilities.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor
Degree (14) years or more experience or
Master’s and (12) years or more of related experience. Working knowledge of
Systems Engineering.
- ToGAF or DoDAF Certified and Enterprise Architect.
- Deep understanding of Azure, AWS and Hybrid cloud architecture.
- Knowledge of 0365, Dynamics CRM and Oracle HCM SaaS product tools.
- Automation, scalability, high availability, optimal costs, ability to easily operate and support, are all first-class citizens of the architecture.
- Architecture need to factor secure multi-tenancy design, performance metrics, operational logging, self-healing and observability.
- Understanding of visual / system modeling and
design tool based on the Object Management Group (OMG), UML, SySML.
- Understanding of application development life
cycle from requirements management through to design, construction, testing
phases.
- Service-Printed Modeling Frameworks (SOMF).
- Understanding of Data modeling, project and
change management and Integration with other tools and cloud services.
- Proven ability to write architectural design
documents and review design documents provided by others.
- Experience in at least medium-sized and/or large-sized Cloud Application Development and
Migration projects involving designing, building, and /or enhancing Cloud
solutions based on Cloud platforms such as
Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS…etc.
- Private Cloud and On and off Premise experience.
- Attention to detail, ability to meet multiple deadlines
and adapt (or flex) to changing priorities.
- Agile software development lifecycle
experience (e.g, SAFe).
- Hands-on experience with cloud architectures,
public cloud deployment and operations, technical and security architecture,
virtualization, software design, software development, Agile development,
application lifecycle management, workload assessments, technical solution
architecture, SOA, Amazon AWS and Windows Azure; all in the DoD and Federal
government space or supporting work for delivery to that space
Desired Qualifications