Enterprise Architecture - Architecture - Lead Associate (Reston, VA)

Cedent Consulting Inc • Reston, VA, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 3m ago

Title: Enterprise Architecture - Architecture - Lead Associate @ Reston, VA
Terms of Hire: Full Time.
Salary: $ Open / yr + Benefits.

Job Description
As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide expert advice, solve business/technical problems through solution architecture. In this role, you will be creating solutions with a process-driven view and maintaining and/or updating existing structures.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Enterprise Architecture - Architecture - Lead Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:
Define current and target state architectures, transition architectures and roadmaps for business portfolios and for individual applications.
May serve as architecture lead or technical expert to define and maintain the architectural frameworks/patterns, processes, standards, and guidelines related to portfolio, systems, business, or data architecture.
Provide technical and architectural subject matter expertise to the stakeholders including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various development technologies and decisions.
Conduct studies of new technologies to provide more efficient and cost-effective architecture solutions.
Confer with business units and application development staff to understand both the business and technical requirements and to define architectural constraints.
Create performance metrics and traceability maps to determine the effectiveness of architecture solutions and facilitate governance.
May review work of other team members and mentor junior architects.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences: 6 Years

Desired Experiences:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Prefer 10 years in defining current and target state architectures, transition architectures and roadmaps.
Experience with developing solution architecture across multiple architecture domains such as business, data, integration, resiliency, and application.
A minimum of 3 years hands on application solution design experience in AWS using AWS native services.
A minimum of 2 years Data Analytics solutioning experience in AWS cloud using AWS native services (EMR, Redshift, Athena etc.), Apache Spark framework and using Python, or R.
A minimum of 2 years’ experience on selecting, architecture reviewing, integration architecture with SaaS/COTS solutions.
A minimum of 5 years providing solutions based on Enterprise Integration patterns, Event Driven Architecture, API, Web services, SOA and Micro Services.
A minimum of 5 years with Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF, DoDAF, FEA etc.
A minimum of 5 years with application servers and containers such as JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic, Oracle Application Server.
A minimum of 5 years with performance optimizations such as improving scalability, availability, throughput, failover, etc.

Skills:

Demonstrated experience of various Cloud Technologies, industry trends and solutioning experience in Public, Hybrid Cloud and PaaS will be essential.
AWS Solution Architect Associate or Professional certification.
Ability to work with both senior management level executives and development teams.
Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills.

Tools:

Skilled in AWS offerings, development, and networking platforms.
Skilled in HOPEX or ARIS or other EA tools.
Experience using APIs for developing or programming software.
Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Visio.
Skilled in XML, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Docker, VMWare.

What are the 3-4 non-negotiable requirements of this position?

Hands on AWS migration from OnPrem to AWS. Hands on development and programming skills - Java, APIs Application development and architecture experience is a must!

What are the nice-to-have skills?