The Role
Define and maintain enterprise technology roadmaps, design architectures, conduct technical analyses, develop prototypes, and create implementation standards for federal environments. The role guides engineering teams, supports Microsoft enterprise services, VMware hosting, multi-data-center resiliency, change control, RMF and ATO processes, and hybrid government-cloud migration. It also requires executive communication, technology evaluation, enterprise standards development, and consideration of Zero Trust, identity governance, access control, data engineering, and DevSecOps practices.
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At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.
Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.
Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!
Accenture Federal Services is seeking an Enterprise Architect who will utilize their knowledge and experience to support a federal customer in defining, managing, and updating an enterprise technology roadmap and creating engineering guidance for the implementation of roadmap technologies to address evolving mission requirements and security policy. This will include design and documentation of new architectures, perform technical analysis, develop working prototypes, and recommend implementation best practice through detailed engineering guidance. The ideal candidate brings historical experience designing on-premises services for a large enterprise, current ability to review and implement technical designs, and experience supporting adoption and migration to a government public cloud. The ability to translate business requirements, policy, and their own investigative insights into actionable architectural, the ability to clearly communicate through executive briefings to C-Suite, and the ability to create detailed standards based technical implementation guidance to engineering teams is key to the candidates success in this role.
Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience translating business requirements into an actionable technology roadmap using a standard documenting framework such as DODAF or TOGAF.
- 5 years of experience with the creation of technical implementation guidance that provides the architecture and configuration framework for engineering implementation and integration.
- 5 years of experience with the following at a large enterprise (500+ users) and across multiple data centers:
- Service Design to include requirements identification, identification of Courses of Action (CoAs), market evaluation and assessment of technologies and products through a quantitative process, and design and integration into the production environment.
- Designing and operating a highly available workload hosting and data architectures across multiple data centers in support of an organization’s DR and COOP requirements.
- Creating technical specifications and defining enterprise standards to ensure compatibility between services, applications, and tools.
- Support of the Microsoft suite of Enterprise services (AD, Exchange, SharePoint, file shares).
- Design and support of VMware based virtual hosting environments.
- Frameworks for managing data center assets and power budgets.
- 5 years of experience with monitoring vendor roadmaps, evaluating products through a unbiased quantitative analysis based assessments, and defining an enterprise roadmap using best of breed that considers a multi-vendor approach.
- 3 years of experience with enterprise change control and Federal Risk Management Framework (RMF) where you have led the change from design creation to ATO.
Bonus points if you have:
- Excellent written and verbal communication:
- Effective verbal and non-verbal communication with peers and C-Suite level customer leadership.
- Experience in project and task management using the Agile framework.
- Able to engage with users in a professional manner and present technical concepts plainly to semi-technical customers.
- Experience with strategies for migrating to and operating services in a public government cloud (i.e. AWS, Azure, Google), while retaining on-premises capabilities (Hybrid Cloud).
- Zero Trust implementation for federal at target or advanced level.
- Experience implementing automated identity governance and/or implementing a Federal Enterprise ICAM capability.
- Experience with implementing RBAC or ABAC policies and access controls to enterprise resources.
- Experience with data engineer to include data discovery, cataloging, labeling, and access control requirements to address organizational data policies.
- Experience with CI/CD DevSecOps, from building pipeline tools to production deployment.
Clearance:
- An active Top Secret federal security clearance is required
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:
$200,400—$223,500 USD
What We Believe
As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. We have an unwavering commitment to creating a culture in which all our people are respected, feel a sense of belonging, and have equal opportunity. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included. This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.
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Accenture Federal Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Additionally, as an Affirmative Action Employer for Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, Accenture Federal Services is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.
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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
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Skills Required
- 10 years of experience translating business requirements into actionable technology roadmaps using DODAF, TOGAF, or a comparable documentation framework.
- 5 years of experience creating technical implementation guidance for architecture, configuration, engineering implementation, and integration.
- 5 years of large-enterprise experience with service design, requirements identification, courses of action, quantitative technology evaluation, and production integration.
- 5 years of experience designing and operating highly available workload-hosting and data architectures across multiple data centers for disaster recovery and continuity of operations.
- 5 years of experience creating technical specifications and enterprise standards for compatibility among services, applications, and tools.
- 5 years of experience supporting Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, and file-share enterprise services.
- 5 years of experience designing and supporting VMware-based virtual hosting environments.
- 5 years of experience using data-center asset and power-budget management frameworks.
- 5 years of experience monitoring vendor roadmaps, quantitatively evaluating products, and defining multi-vendor enterprise technology roadmaps.
- 3 years of experience with enterprise change control and Federal Risk Management Framework processes, leading designs through Authority to Operate.
- Active Top Secret federal security clearance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communication with C-suite customer leadership.
- Experience with Agile project and task management.
- Experience migrating to and operating public government cloud services while retaining on-premises capabilities.
- Experience implementing Zero Trust at federal target or advanced maturity levels.
- Experience implementing automated identity governance or Federal Enterprise ICAM capabilities.
- Experience implementing RBAC or ABAC policies and enterprise access controls.
- Experience with data discovery, cataloging, labeling, and access-control requirements.
- Experience with CI/CD DevSecOps pipelines from tool development through production deployment.
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The Company
What We Do
Accenture Federal Services is a leading US federal services company and subsidiary of Accenture LLP. It empowers US federal agencies to reinvent their operations and deliver missions faster using technology and AI. By leveraging mission expertise and commercial innovation, the company provides solutions in cloud, data, and cybersecurity to help the government make the nation stronger, safer, and more resilient.
