Overview
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is a premium provider for life sciences, project and program management. We are searching for an Architect/Technical Manager to support our work with a renowned federal agency where you will help drive modernization in one of the world’s largest data repositories. We are looking for full-time candidates currently residing in the United States. This position is available for remote work.
Position Description
As the Architect/Technical Manager you will play a crucial role in the IT/Product Modernization initiative for one of the largest public repositories of high throughput data sequencing. In this role, you will work to drive solutions across the initiative for architectures and technical baselines for differentiating capabilities. You will use your expertise in road mapping and modernization to create and maintain business solutions.
If you are interested in being a part of an organization that operates within the intersection of technology and health, please apply today!
Roles & Responsibilities
- Use your experience in high-value projects to evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies for the IT/Product Modernization initiative
- Conduct gap analyses and provide recommendations to leadership focusing on new solutions and prioritized solution features
- Act as the senior subject matter expert in the creation of engineering products, processes and solutions for existing, emerging and future customers
- Ensure technology choices align with business goals and organization technology roadmap
- Support the development of the initiative roadmap from a technical perspective
- Ensure technical feasibility of the planned phases
- Collaborate with team leads to coordinate release dependencies
- Provide estimates, Identify and mitigate technical risks
- Plan the technical implementation strategies
- Ensure the technical delivery meets the established standards
Education and Experience
- 10+ years experience in software and system architecture
- 7+ years experience with Jira, agile, and waterfall methodology
- Proven track record of participating in the implementation of multiple cloud applications, preferably for highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise software deployments
- Experience leading and developing KPIs, executive reporting, and stakeholder management
- Familiarity with Digital Engineering and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Familiarity with Agile Development and DevSecOps (DSO)
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field; advanced degree desired
Benefits
We provide our team members with a premium benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, PTO, and tuition reimbursement.
Top Skills
What We Do
Official account of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. NCBI serves as an international resource for the scientific research community - providing access to public databases and software tools for analyzing biological data, as well as performing research in computational biology.
The NCBI was established in 1988 by an act of the United States Congress as division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, with a mission to find new approaches to deal with the increasing volume and complexity of biological data in order to facilitate the understanding of genes and their role in health and disease.
The NCBI is made up of multidisciplinary research and development teams composed of molecular biologists, biochemists, structural biologists, clinicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists who:
Archive: Gather scientific and medical research data from around the globe
• Serve as the largest repository of the world’s primary biological research data
• Produce curated datasets to enhance the value and usability of the primary data
Access: Develop systems for discovering and integrating scientific and medical data
• Create search tools and data cross-referencing mechanisms
• Display and enable download of information from the world's largest collection of biological data
Advance: Promote understanding of processes that effect health and disease
• Perform cutting-edge research in computational biology
• Design and build algorithms, programs and systems for analysis of biological data
• Provide support and training through a varied and vigorous outreach program
