Lead Enterprise Architect / Solutions Architect

SimIS, Inc.

Lead Enterprise Architect

{Washington, D.C. – Full-Time, Onsite, Potential for some Remote}

Who We Are: Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

{SimIS is currently recruiting for the below listed position and is contingent upon award. It will be determined upon award if the position can be remote, and or if there are any positions required "on-site".}

Job Title: Enterprise / Solutions Architect
Job Location: Washington, D.C.

Security Clearance: None Required / SECRET preferred

Location: Washington, DC

Job Description:

The ideal candidate ensures the integration of IT programs and services; developing solutions to integration/interoperability issues; and designing, developing, and managing IT security systems that meet current and future business requirements. Also, the candidate is responsible for applying or extending, enhancing, or optimizing the existing architecture; managing assigned projects; communicating complex technical requirements to non-technical personnel; and preparing and presenting briefings to senior management officials on complex/controversial issues. Additional work assignments include leading IT systems development projects from design to support; evaluating the effectiveness of installed systems and services; and providing advice on and devising solutions to a wide range of IT issues.

The candidate performs the following specific assignments:

• Analyzes across multiple data domains, defines strategies to reduce data redundancy, improve data availability, and accessibility by partnering with the technical teams, and delivers a maintainable and reusable data architecture.
• Analyzes data attributes from multiple systems and develops Common Information Models. Governs data decisions related to data model design, data access patterns, and data services. Develops standards for naming, describing, governing, managing, modeling, storing, cleansing, transforming, accessing and delivering data to internal and external systems and users.
• Designs and develops Databases, Data Warehouse and Multidimensional Databases/Data Stores. Maintains the end-to-end vision of the data flow diagram and develops logical data models into one or more physical Databases/Data Stores.
• Maintains data models and develops strategies for data acquisition, archival, recovery, and implementation of Database/Data Stores. Acts as a liaison between technical development teams and the administrators of Data Stores and provides guidance on decisions that could affect future direction, such as where or how to implement particular capabilities, data stores, and data structures.

Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems.
• Must be capable of taking the enterprise vision and combining it with the enterprise architecture needed to achieve organizational objectives.
• At least seven (7) years of post-college full-time experience developing enterprise architectures and various sub-components thereof.
• At least three (3) years of experience working on Federal Government enterprise architecture development and maintenance efforts.
• Experience developing IT strategies, business architectures, technology architectures, conducting portfolio rationalization analyses and using EA tools.
• Possess deep subject matter expertise in the cyber security and must be capable of taking a ZT architecture and engineering a solution that fits into an evolving Enterprise Architecture
• Must have previous experience in creating and maintaining a Technical Reference Model (TRM) to support segment and solution-level architecture development, analysis and review of new work requirements.
• Possess solution architecture skills in diverse areas such as application migration to the cloud, cloud storage design, mobile application design and implementation and designing disaster recovery for futuristic scenarios are also required.
• Subject matter expertise in IT infrastructure, supported by certifications like CCIE, CCNP and CCSP, but also have enterprise architecture expertise.
• Experience Desired:
• Department of Treasury or other Federal Agencies, experience a plus.
• Experience applying object-oriented programming and design approaches and patterns-based design and development
• Program Management Professional (PMP) accredited by PMBOK/PMI, etc
• Local to DC a plus

Special Skills/Knowledge/Training Required/Desired:

• An Enterprise Architecture certification, such as Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) is required complimented by specific certifications is preferred.
• A CISSP certification, such as ISSAP, ISSMP, ISSEP.
• Possess Ssbject matter expertise in IT infrastructure, supported by certifications like CCIE, CCNP and CCSP, but also have enterprise architecture expertise.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Short Term Disability (SimIS provides Short-Term Disability benefits at no cost to you)

• Life Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Holidays each year

• SimIS, Inc. is an AA / EOE / M / F / Disability / VET / Drug Free Employer