Enterprise Architect – Contract Position

Contract Length: 6 months with the possibility of extending based on performance.
**Colonial Heights, VA candidates ONLY required.

Capitalizing on his/her knowledge about the client environment, the organization, customers, business lines, services, and resources, as well as his/her expertise in technology, the Enterprise Architect is expected to:
– Provide vision and insight into the development of the EA and Planning strategy.
– Demonstrate leadership and expertise for ITD initiatives.
– Foster trans-enterprise integration of business processes, technology solutions, data, customer experience, etc. to drive innovation, progress and new opportunities.

Primary responsibilities

Support and lead the area of application portfolio management using client’s architecture repository, including the transition to an enterprise level platform

Support and lead the creation of enterprise strategies and technology strategies aimed at management audiences

Demonstrates strong business acumen, understands of key business drivers for performance and growth, and the use of sound business practices.

Engage with other ITD peers and technical stakeholders on emerging technologies, proofs of concept, including MS Azure, MS365, integration and data technologies.

Support and lead the creation of platform and technical roadmaps aimed at technical audiences, the business and management stakeholders.

Support and lead the creation of organization specific frameworks and methodologies based on industry standards such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, and industry research such as Gartner, etc.??

Support and lead the creation of visual representations and summarization of complex information such as processes, data, metrics, and financials, etc.

Secondary responsibilities

Develop the overall?Enterprise?Architecture with respect to end-to-end business capabilities.

Define application architectures and implementation to ensure adherence to business requirements, technology standards, best practices, business strategies, and trends

Support product line architecture to ensure accurate planning for delivery, technical complexity, cost, dependencies, etc.

Define architecture principles, patterns and standards

Participate in the evaluation and selection of standard technologies and/or products

Manage the lifecycle and roadmap of enterprise applications and vetted software

Proactively analyze the current information technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement

Provide technical consultation, research, knowledge transfer, etc. for solution planning and delivery efforts as needed

Continuously monitor and research the emerging technology environments

Qualifications
– 10+ years of experience working with senior management level audiences
– 5+ years of experience working with executive level audiences
– Knowledge of enterprise frameworks such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, Zachman, etc. and practical experience with their adoption
– Ability to understand organizational dynamics between multiple different stakeholders and a strong ability to devise strategies for accomplishing goals under complex circumstances and dynamics
– Superior writing and documentations skills in various formats and tools with impeccable quality
– Strong ability to distill data and other complex information for story-telling to senior audiences
– PowerBI experience is a plus
– Deep technical understanding in at least two areas such as application development, solution architecture, security (at application or infrastructure level), infrastructure, integrations, cloud, and data etc., is a must

Required/Desired Skills