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Lead Architect

Job Title
Lead Architect
Job ID
27567785
Location
Washington,  DC 20024
Other Location
Reston, VA
Description
Our direct client in Healthcare is seeking a LEAD ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Architecture Development: Develop, review, approve and maintain enterprise architecture blueprints and roadmaps. Analyze pain points and opportunities that transcend business areas and propose enterprise strategies or solutions. Ensure the quality of reusable architecture patterns and reference models. Ensure alignment across architecture and business domains and traceability to business and IT strategy.
• Architecture Consulting: Provide guidance to enterprise, domain, and solution architects to ensure that solution architectures align with IT strategies and enterprise blueprints, standards, and guidelines. Research and analyze enterprise architectures (including business, enterprise information environment, intelligence processes, and IT) to identify mission capability gaps, overlaps, and shortfalls.
• Strategy Development: Provide thought leadership in the development and execution of enterprise and domain-specific IT strategies, standards, and guidelines. Engage in business strategy development to identify new business capability and technology-driven opportunities and ensure alignment and prioritization of IT strategy. Define business and operating models to exploit new opportunities and realize strategic goals and objectives.
• Architecture Governance: Represent Enterprise Architecture and provide thought leadership in solution architecture peer reviews and architecture governance forums. Ensure that IT portfolio decisions provide business value and optimize the total cost of ownership.
• Architecture Practice Development: Support the development, tailoring, and enhancement of enterprise architecture frameworks, methods, and tools. Ensure the alignment and integration of enterprise architecture processes and deliverables with those of other architecture and SDLC disciplines. Lead the development of enterprise architecture communications and education material for use with business and technical stakeholders or partners.
• Solution Assessment: Represent Enterprise Architecture in the identification and evaluation of solution alternatives, including the drafting and/or review of strategic RFIs/RFPs and the evaluation of vendor proposals.
• Planning and Operations: Assess projects for architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture. Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to enterprise architecture.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
• Ability to motivate and influence others so that project objectives are met in a timely manner. 
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop high-quality solutions. 
• Ability to coach peers and team members. 
• Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal), and collaboration. 
• Expertise with architecture frameworks, methods, and tools. 

OTHER REQUIREMENTS
• 8-10 years of experience in enterprise architecture or related discipline.
• TOGAF certification (or similar) [Preferred, not required].
• Experience using architecture modeling tools (Orbus iServer or similar) [Preferred, not required].

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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