Systems Architect

Description

• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project
• Provides technical direction to project managers, engineers and designated boards for integrating new technology in applications design and development
• Provides architectural guidance and recommendation on AWS, DevOps tools, development languages, application services, databases, COTS/GOTS products, Linux and Windows operating systems
• Prepares and presents briefings on various technologies to developers, project managers, customer governance boards, customer senior management and the IC
• Provides technical expertise in systems architecture to influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results; assess feasibility of system plans; establish priorities; and develop and implement plans that adhere to established strategic business and system objectives
• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, and network connectivity, other systems interfaces, internal and external checks and controls and outputs
• Lead development of system prototypes to demonstrate application of design principles and to demonstrate proposed products and services will meet the requirements
• Mapping of software projects to strategic roadmaps
• Serve as the subject matter expert within technical domain area to various boards such as the architecture review board, engineering review board, and other working groups
• Identify enterprise services that should be used within the component and also develop strategies for making projects into enterprise services
• Provide complete assessments of the technical characteristics of proposals and alternatives considered in applications design
• Recommends and develops new technical solutions, products, and/or standards in support of functions strategy and operations
• Review and assess technical proposals requesting changes or upgrades to existing applications
• Develops solutions that are highly innovative, and achieved through research and integration of best practices
• Participate in the Technical Review Board
• Monitor industry trends and directions; develop and present substantive technical recommendations to senior management
• Apply Working Capital Fund processes and procedures to execution of technical, engineering and development of projects

• Requires a bachelor degree with 12+ years of prior relevant experience OR Masters and 10 + years of experience
• Must have a TS/SCI with poly to be considered
• Experience with architecture of applications in C2S environment, as well as AWS security and cost modeling; AWS: CloudFormation Templates, Load Balancer, Autoscaling, Security Groups, S3 and KMS
• Experience creating the various artifacts for C2S approvals (To-Be Architecture, Roadmap, Cost, Lambda etc.)
• Familiarity with No-Relational Databases: MongoDB
• Familiarity with relational Databases: Oracle RDS, MySQL and AWS RDS
• Experience with services: REST Web Services
• Programming experience demonstrating progressively more complex assignments
• Experience with front-end and back-end development
• Experience with Web technologies (cascading style sheets, JavaScript, jQuery, NodeJS, Angular etc.)
• Understanding of X.509 certificates
• Understanding of Java web servers (i.e. Tomcat)
• Considerable recent knowledge of the Java language, supporting libraries, and commonly used frameworks like (but not limited to) Spring, Hibernate, and ibatis (myBatis)
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks like EXT-JS
• Experience explaining technical capabilities to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience integrating COTS/GOTS products

• ELK stack experience
• Experience with Microsoft Azure
• Experience with the ASAM (Applied Systems Architecture Model) or equivalent
• Experience with Sponsor's Ruby on Rails platform
• Experience with SharePoint development
• Experience using the agile development framework (Schedule and Security Triage)
• Experience working with SOLR - Elasticsearch
• Experience with Mongo
• Experience with Node.js