Chief Digital Architect

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Engineering (General)

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Digital Technology, IT Architecture, Software Code Quality, Software Security

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Chief Digital Architect

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work with the largest government agency in the nation. Make an impact by advancing the Department of Defense’s mission to keep our country safe and secure.

Mission

USSTRATCOM is a Combatant Command responsible for strategic deterrence, nuclear operations, and enterprise IT services essential to national security. It oversees Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (JEMSO), Global Strike, and Missile Threat Assessments, working closely with other Combatant Commands, Services, and defense agencies. SCITLS will be a key component that will ensure mission success and the safety.

Job Description

• Analyzes and recommends improvements to existing infrastructure and service offerings, including guidance and support in modernizing and securing networks and refactoring applications and migrating remaining data center applications to cloud.
• Work in partnership with customers to understand and participate in the development of new mission support IT strategies assessing current and future skills and technologies to support emerging mission needs.
• Makes recommendations to the customer in the shaping of the future of enterprise architecture and roadmaps for the command. Assesses DoD frameworks (DoDAF, UAF, TOGAF) and helps to ensure implemented use cases adhere to that framework.
• Develops “as is” and “to be” architecture and solutions focusing on scalability and extensibility.
• Assists in executing and maintaining enterprise Agile/SAFe activities.
• Leads model development and curation for the enterprise architecture utilizing MBSE methods according to UAF standards.
• Defines digital platform architecture frameworks, including design methodology and best practices to be used as a reference for the Architecture team. 
• Implements the platform under the control of an automated configuration management framework.
• Provides in-depth knowledge of information security.
• Holds responsibility for the architecture of the data framework that is required by the operations to collect and make available program performance metrics.

Required skills/duties:

• Must be capable of performing analysis of system operations
• Must be capable of system decomposition via OMG frameworks (UML, DoDAF 2.0/UPDM, SysML, UAF)
• Must be able to model systems via different perspectives (e.g. capability, operational, system, functional) and at various levels of abstraction
• Must be familiar with UML modeling tools (Cameo Enterprise Architect preferred)
• Must be able to meet with stakeholders in a variety of system domains and analyze requirement, process, system, and/or capability
• Must be capable of extending UML-based models to other tools or modeling environments via existing frameworks/API’s
• Must be familiar with executable models (fUML specification preferred)
• Must have the ability to generate/produce data and reports
• Interact and professionally exhibit customer service skills and be able to present a positive approach with customers and peers 

Desired skills:

• Certification in modeling, e.g. OCSMP (OMG Certified Systems Modeling Professional)
• Experience modeling complex systems for Department of Defense or other government organizations
• Experience publishing models to web-based or document-based formats
• Experience developing applications using object-oriented programming languages (Java preferred)
• Experience in a rapid paced, time sensitive, high quality environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills along with strong customer service
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize commitments, and manage time effectively including attention to detail