*Senior Enterprise Architect Lead

Description

Job Description

DSFederal,Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect Lead to support a federal health agency’s IT services program. The Senior Enterprise Architect Lead will serve as a subject matter expert, possessing in-depth knowledge of enterprise architecture. This role involves providing technical knowledge and analysis of highly specialized applications and operational environments, high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, and implementation advice on exceptionally complex problems. The Senior Enterprise Architect Lead will facilitate and participate in business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive, and consultative manner, driving digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy:

· Assist in the planning, development, and execution of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy, consistent with EA guidance supplied by the customer (e.g., FISMA, OMB, NIST) and the latest industry standards.

· Cover the four sub-architecture domains: Strategy, Business, Data, Applications, Technology, and Security.

· Collaborate with various stakeholders to create and maintain a strategic plan in alignment with organizational policies and business strategy.

· Establish and maintain a line of sight from strategic goals to infrastructure solutions.

Technology and Innovation:

· Analyze business and operating models, market trends, and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, direction, and architecture.

· Construct technology-enabled business and operating models and provide viable options and visibility into execution issues.

· Run technology experiments to create new products and services and integrate the best of these into steady-state operations for the organization.

Security Architecture:

· Validate IT infrastructure and other reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risks.

· Create and maintain security architectures/designs and develop comprehensive security solutions to safeguard the digital infrastructure, data, and assets.

· Analyze existing security measures, identify vulnerabilities, and create strategies to mitigate risks.

Business Architecture:

· Ensure that proposed architectures adhere to the Business Architecture and align with the IT vision of the customer.

· Work with Solution, Technology, and Data Architects to align Solution, Technology, and Data architectures to the target business architecture.

· Provide business case development by analyzing proposed projects or initiatives to determine if they should be approved/implemented.

· Provide business process transformation by creating collaborative teams to identify stakeholders, understand their needs, and redesign business processes using new technologies.

Data/Information Architecture:

· Ensure proposed Data Architecture provides data analytics, dashboarding, and reporting as needed for decision support.

· Recommend data storage technologies and repository architectures, including the creation and maintenance of an enterprise data lake.

· Collaborate with Information Assurance (IA) stakeholders to define the formal IA function and determine the organizational design.

Technology Portfolio Management:

· Create and maintain a Technology Portfolio that can view technology risks in a timeline, relate business applications to application services, and associate application services to hardware and software models.

· Conduct assessments and document as-is organization architectures to determine alignment with Enterprise Architecture policies and procedures.

· Create a target state EA consisting of Business, Application, Infrastructure, and Data architecture viewpoints and provide a 1-3-5-year plan to reach the target architecture.

Communication and Reporting:

· Support the senior leadership team on executive-level, strategic messaging, and presentations.

· Maintain data in various repositories, propose and implement changes to improve operations and use of data repositories to enhance insight and advance executive-level decision-making.

· Provide support/strategy on building and executing engaging, purpose-driven hybrid meeting designs for sponsored meetings.

Inter-agency Support:

· Assist in the creation and maintenance of a strategic plan by providing the Data/Information Architecture perspective