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Lead Architect

Job Title
Lead Architect
Job ID
27489939
Location
Reston,  VA 20191
Other Location
Description

Are you looking for the next exciting project opportunity with a great company? Our professional recruiting staff at CC Pace is here to support you in every step of the process!  We have been in business for nearly four decades and have deep roots in the Washington DC metro area.  Our direct client relationships with companies in a variety of industries and sizes help us to find the right opportunity for our candidates.

We offer competitive rates, healthcare & dental, 401k, FSA, LTD, lots of voluntary benefits, and tons of discount perks.  Our team is standing by, ready to help you get started today!

•           Must be authorized to work in the US. 
•           Employer not providing work sponsorship currently

Lead Architect Enterprise (9-12) Years’ Experience, 6-8 Years Leading (Enterprise Standards Development, Rationalization of Microservices/Webservices, Enterprise Integration Strategies)

Role:
• Develop and maintain future state vision, reference architecture, architecture roadmaps, and transition roadmaps that meet the enterprise needs.
• Lead architectural discussions with internal customers and technical teams to understand business and technical requirements in order to maintain alignment of the enterprise architecture and domains (e.g. business, application, data, security, infrastructure.) with the business/technology strategy, goals, and objectives.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop blueprints and roadmap for our core systems, technology infrastructure appropriately aligned to the future state vision.
• Establish technical rationale and business case for architectures and implementations.
• Lead innovation and technology adoption efforts to drive results for new capabilities.
• Manage planning and implementation of new enterprise-wide technologies.
• Develop conceptual level solution architectures for complex, highly visible business initiatives.
• Collaborate with architects across all domains on the development of new Solution Architectures, bringing an enterprise perspective and leveraging reference architectures, roadmaps, standards, etc.
• Manage the definition of architectural patterns and standards. Work with development teams to ensure proper usage.
• Maintain an ongoing awareness of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform enterprise technology strategy and direction.
• Maintain an ongoing partnership with the business to apply in-depth knowledge of the business operations, strategies, priorities, and information requirements to establish the technical direction and an enterprise view.

Requirements:
• Expert in collaborating with internal stakeholders to develop integrated roadmaps aligned with product and architecture strategies.
• Expert in elaborating domain architecture strategies to develop comprehensive action plans for the adoption of enterprise strategies to meet strategic goals.
• Expert in developing future state vision, strategies, roadmaps, patterns, and standards.
• Expert in leading development of domain-level strategies and roadmaps (data, application, infrastructure, security,..)
• Experience in leading and establishing EA Governance.
• Experience collaborating with procurement, legal, and audit on vendor/technology selection.
• Experience with business and systems analysis and design methodologies and tools, and experience with large and complex systems.
• Experience with multi-system/platform program integration.

Required Skills:
• Proficient in the following Software & Tools: Orbus, MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook Excel, Visio
• Excellent analytical, planning, and communication skills.
• Excellent written and spoken language skills, strong presentation skills
• Strong capability/process modeling skills, particularly in TOGAF.
• Strong ability to explain and demonstrate the value of enterprise architecture.
• Demonstrates awareness of new systems technologies and how they could be leveraged to benefit the company, customers, and providers, new business strategies, and corporate initiatives.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking, business acumen, and experience, to align project architectures with stated EA roadmaps and standards.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking and leadership abilities to interface across several channels, acting as a visionary, to assist, proactively in developing project direction.

Preferred Education and Experience:
• This position requires a BA/BS in computer science or a related field.
• Served as an enterprise architect in a health insurance payer organization.
• Active participant in enterprise architecture organizations.
• Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or other EA Framework certification preferred

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.  EEO IS THE LAW CCPace invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan.  This plan is available for inspection upon request. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us.

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