Enterprise Architect

, , United States

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2022 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

Responsibilities

The Program Management Office task, supporting the Digital Innovation for General Services Administration (GSA) Infrastructure Technologies (DIGIT) task order, is relied upon to provide overarching guidance and management support for infrastructure engineering projects to assist with the design, documentation, and implementation work. All solution engineering shall follow the GSA framework and methodology.  Such projects may consist of building and deploying new networks and infrastructure components (including security features) as well as removing existing network features and infrastructure components.

As the Enterprise Architect, your day-to-day activities will be performed in conjunction with DIGIT and Government leaders. One of the principal functions of the Enterprise Architect is to ensure the GSA Enterprise Network Architecture is documented and used as the foundation upon which technical solutions are developed and implemented.  To accomplish this, the Enterprise Architect will support a wide range of program activities and business rhythms.  This day-to-day support may include supporting projects, tasks, and activities throughout projects’ life-cycles; providing status updates and resolving problems, issues, or conflicts, as required; and ensuring that program schedule, costs, performance, and deliverables are met.

The Enterprise Architect will combine expert-level engineering experience and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes, with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges. This position is accountable for developing solutions that ensure the availability and reliability of critical platform services, application and development of new solutions, ensuring they meet the requirements of internal users, external users and security. This role is expected to collaborate with business leaders in building and running sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in a government environment.  This role is also responsible for supporting new technologies and initiatives designed to add business value.

Responsibilities:

The Enterprise Architect shall perform the following (to include but not limited to) activities:

Development of a multi-layer GSA Enterprise Network Architecture that captures the network and the applications used to support it

Oversee the development of infrastructure management processes & procedures along with relevant documentation including architecture diagrams, System Implementation Plans, Standard Operating Procedures, Operational Level Agreements.

Leads the overall technology assessment and selections across product portfolios to create a homogenous architecture with simplicity, automation, and innovation.

Provide Strategic Leadership related to engineering innovations and provide alignment with organizational strategic direction and timelines.

Assist in the development of a multi-year strategic plan driving implementation and innovation to achieve full automation ambition.

Ensures the digital transformation strategy aligns with organizational strategic direction and architectural requirements.

Provide Architectural support where possible to ensure the enterprise has the appropriate infrastructure to support all business-related capabilities and support.

Advise cross functional teams to sufficiently achieve technical and procedural goals.

Regularly review technical detail from delegate teams and produce executive-level reports and analyses.

Communicate with both technical team members as well as executive/management level individuals.

Support in-production go-live activities such as coordination of infrastructure, engineering support, and architectural reviews  as well as engagement with security.

Provide guidance to management and executives regarding planning future direction for existing infrastructure including but not limited to public/private cloud migrations.

Supporting environment with over 15,000 machines, physical virtual Servers and Workstations.

Supporting Multi-mix environment composed of Windows, Unix, Linux

Ability to assess problems and identify quick workarounds while working towards long-term strategic solutions.

Assist in creating, managing, and updating continuous integration (CI) / continuous delivery (CD) pipelines using tools such as Gradle, Docker, GitHub, Chef, Nexus, Jenkins, JUnit, Tomcat, SonarQube, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.

Assist in designing, developing, and operationalizing new processes such as on-demand environment provisioning

Identify opportunities for refinement, tools consolidation, and continuous improvement

Work as a communicator, and collaborator in a multi-project, multi-contractor environment

Assist in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and remediation

Build maintenance and support automated processes

Provide guidance as a subject matter expert on product design, development, troubleshooting, and documentation

Management frameworks, such as NIST, SSAE, ISO/IEC 27001, CMMC and FedRamp, as well as regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, PCI/DSS.

Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring practical experience and training to determine how to accomplish tasks.

Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.

Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.

Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Public Trust Clearance by start date, preference given to those with prior clearance.

10 - 15 years experience

Bachelor's Degree

ITILv4 Foundation Training and ITILv4 Foundation Certification, may be obtained within 120 days after hire.

Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge across key tasks, concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on multiple complex work assignments.

Expert knowledge of and experience keeping up with changes to common information security

Advisory experience related to project oversight, directing, and overseeing the mission-critical work, activities, taking initiatives, leading teams, and managing risk.

Experience supporting industry standard software products.

Experience as a remote worker demonstrating time management and self discipline.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience with the following technologies:

ServiceNow

Hypervisor Technologies - VMWare

Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Experience of Office 365, Google Suite

Integration of APIs

Codecommit//CodeDeploy, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, AWS Codebuild, Powershell, Terraform

SQL Server, PostGres

OS: Linux and Windows

Json, YAML, Python, Ansible, Javascript, Cucumber, Selenium

Active Directory (AD), ADFS, LDAP

DevSecOps

Shall possess the ability to communicate in both oral and written forms, demonstrating an ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff as well as clients.

Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.

Ability to contribute to planning and reporting and serve as lead on high visibility technology assignments.

Ability to evaluate engineering performance results and present recommendations affecting short-term project growth and success.

Familiarity with the following technologies: Google Suite and Service NOW.

Master's Degree

AWS, GCP, or Azure Certifications.

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Agile Experience.

Possess the ability to communicate in both oral and written forms, demonstrating an ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff as well as clients.

Demonstrated ability to apply comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to do the following:

As a remote position, personnel are expected to maintain their home workspace in a safe manner, free from safety hazards.

Personnel are expected to ensure the protection of proprietary company and customer information accessible from their home office consistent with the company’s expectations of information security.

Communicate verbally and respond to verbal communications in person, over the phone or by video chat.

Communicate clearly and succinctly in writing, primarily utilizing a keyboard

Sitting for long periods.

Viewing computer screens for long periods of time.

Travel is not required.

About Empower AI

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.