Senior Solution Architect

TechFlow, Inc. is hiring a Senior Enterprise Architect who will support our Federal customer in leveraging architecture capabilities to create defined outputs and/or facilitate defined target architecture processes. The Senior Enterprise Architect will lead multiple customer solution design projects in parallel and present proposals to senior government officials.

Key Responsibilities

• Meet with management and team members frequently to propose initiatives and help establish priorities.
• Identify current business and technical capabilities, performance gaps, and projected target needs.
• Create and maintain a common vision and implementation roadmap for various target states and initiatives.
• Help to assure mission requirements and target architectures drive technology investment.
• Provide hands-on support for HQ and enterprise-wide business and technical artifacts, guidance, data, visualizations, reports, and studies
• Facilitate and lead cross-functional activities to increase stakeholder participation and satisfaction to include providing enterprise architecture support, program engagement and coordination, working groups, councils, and Integrated Product Teams (IPT), as needed
• Capture and build-out target architecture artifacts in a centralized repository while working with other agency EA entities and Components to harmonize EA data and processes
• Ensure consistency of business processes, standardization of data and information flow, and interoperable technologies through the integration of business and IT management across the agency
• Support the agency’s ability to develop EA artifacts and deliver against its IT strategy
• Conduct business and technical discovery with customers and stakeholders
• Problem-solve novel solutions, architectures and use cases to help customers and stakeholders meet their objectives
• Provide robust recommendations for engagements while also identifying critical dependencies & gaps
• Continuously improve the team’s knowledge, methodologies and inventory of solution design blueprints for key customer segments and classes of use cases
• Independently apply a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures
• Responsible for, or assist in, the designing of interface standards, quality assurance standards, performance standards, and cost-benefit analysis of modem state-of-the art information system
• Analyze available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an IT discipline
• 7+ years in experience in design, analysis, and implementation of information systems architecture
• Knowledge of the DHS EA/FEAF documentation requirements

• Enterprise and Target Architecture development and documentation experience

• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage team resource allocation in the face of competing demands

• Demonstrated experience implementing successful Program Management techniques

• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
• Balance of business and technology acumen, including ability to articulate high-level technical solutions to business problems and to tie your solutions to program success criteria
• Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a top-tier technical consulting or software development
• Strong drive to solve customer problems and drive projects end to end from ideation to deployment
• FEAF/CEA certification

About TechFlow

Founded in 1995 at the start of the dot-com revolution, TechFlow helped large commercial clients such as Dreamworks, Toshiba, MGM, and others modernize their business systems. Today, with deep operational roots in the bi-coastal innovation hubs of California and Washington DC, TechFlow continues as a leader in applying innovative engineering, technology, integration solutions, and support services to the Federal Government’s most demanding mission and business challenges.

Our culture thrives on out-of-the-box thinking and the unique powerful entrepreneurial expressions of our employee-owners. As a 100% employee-owned company, we have a shared expectation of commitment, accountability, and responsibility driven by a culture that embraces innovation and new ideas. Our goal is not to do what has been done, but to do it better.

TechFlow has four principal lines of business: Digital Services, Platform Services, Energy and Mobility Solutions and Base Operations. Our company has a strong trac