Technical Architect
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Duration: 6+ Months, long term potential
Role Summary
This role is responsible for the development and implementation of technology architecture for complex applications and solutions in a challenging business domain. Works directly with product and engineering teams in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities Include:
• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to best fit architectural strategy recommendations for very large projects and applications.
• Drives adoption of enterprise standards and best practices. Promotes changes in process, standards, or technologies when necessary.
• Develops, communicates, and oversees implementation of architecture and technology standards. Works directly with engineering and product teams. Participates in management and executive product and architectural discussions.
• Anticipates applicability of major industry trends in the large project or business unit level and implements plans. Develops or executes Proof of Concepts (POC’s) to assess technical and business benefits.
• Participates in critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting as necessary.
• Effectively addresses functional and quality goals of systems during design activities. Applies appropriate approaches to assessing tradeoffs among architectural goals.
Specific Knowledge/Skills/Experience:
• Proficiency in multiple enterprise technologies, architectural styles, and techniques. Ability to quickly acquire skills. Experience with Java, .NET, varied service interaction styles, messaging, and enterprise databases.
• Knowledge and mastery of multiple architectural skills within enterprise standards, including frameworks, blueprints, and architecture patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to manage conceptual and abstract problem domains.
• Use of modeling techniques – such as use case, scenario modeling, prototyping, benchmarking, and performance modeling – to describe the problem space, to size the solution and to validate that the proposed architecture addresses the business requirements.
• Expertise in applying architecture assessment methodologies.
• Industry and technology trend analysis.
• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• 10+ years experience in designing, implementing and delivering large complex systems
• Financial Industry experience a plus.
• Experience designing systems involving services, messaging, integration, and event-driven capabilities required.
• Knowledge of Java Middle-Tier frameworks and platforms preferred.
• Database knowledge – Oracle preferred.
• Functional programming and related platform experience is a plus.
• Distributed caches and in-memory data grids a plus.
• Hadoop, Spark, or other “Big Data” experience a plus.
Additional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 10+ years experience designing, implementing and delivering large complex systems
- Proficiency with Java
- Proficiency with .NET
- Experience designing systems involving services, messaging, integration, and event-driven capabilities
- Knowledge and mastery of multiple architectural skills within enterprise standards (frameworks, blueprints, architecture patterns)
- Use of modeling techniques (use case, scenario modeling, prototyping, benchmarking, performance modeling)
- Expertise in applying architecture assessment methodologies
- Experience working directly with product and engineering teams in an Agile environment
- Financial industry experience
- Knowledge of Java middle-tier frameworks and platforms
- Database knowledge - Oracle
- Functional programming and related platform experience
- Distributed caches and in-memory data grids
- Hadoop, Spark, or other Big Data experience
What We Do
Business Integra Technology Solutions, Inc. (“BI”), is an award-winning IT government contracting company headquartered in Bethesda, MD with offices worldwide. It ranks on the Inc. 500 list and was recognized by Washington Technology as one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the area. BI is a certified woman-owned business and a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) ranked as CMMI Level 5 for Services and CMMI Level 5 for Development. Our portfolio of certifications also includes AS9100D for the development of aerospace hardware; ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management Systems); ISO 20000:2011 (IT Service Management Systems); and ISO 27001:2013 (Information Security Management Systems). Expertise: Our core IT competency areas include program and project management, Agile software development, cybersecurity, ICAM, cloud computing, and IT operations and maintenance. We have a special scientific and aeronautic engineering division that supports NASA – including the Hubble Telescope and the International Space Station – and a special mission support division that services many clients including the Department of State and NATO. Our cybersecurity team is on the cutting edge of threat intelligence, tailored threat hunting, penetration testing, and perimeter protection. BI has full competency in integrated security (physical, logical, and cyber) and serves many American facilities OCONUS. Clients: We have supported numerous federal civilian agencies including the Department of State (DOS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Labor (DOL), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Our military clients include the Army, the Navy, and the Marines. We also perform work for commercial clients, non-profits, and academic institutions such as M.I.T. We don’t just land contracts: we win re-competes because of the high quality of our work. We’re known by the company we keep.
