REQ#: RQ173307Public Trust: None Requisition Type: Regular Your Impact

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Job Description

GDIT has a position opening for a Technical Architect to provide technical leadership and support in the areas of IT planning, solution specification/design, and target architecture development.  The well qualified candidate will have a strong knowledge of information technology and commercial solutions; and significant experience architecting and developing technical solutions.  The preferred candidate will have excellent communications skills, a strong customer service orientation, and experience serving as an advisor to federal CIOs and senior IT managers.

Responsibilities include:

Participating as a member of the Enterprise Architecture Working Group (EAWG) and working with the GDIT enterprise architecture team to develop target architectures and evaluate IT investment requests.Working with the customer CIO and GDIT project staff to facilitate IT strategic planningResponding to technical questions and research requests from the customer CIO.Performing solution scans and designing and estimating the cost of technical solutions that satisfy the requirements of IT investment requests.Preparing solution packages documenting recommended technical solutions and estimated costs and benefits.Advising/driving an application modernization initiativeFacilitating  staff in conducting “Fit-Gap” evaluations of proposed COTS solutionsProviding advice and support for systems development and engineering projectsCoordinating “reachback” with technical subject matter experts (SME) within GDIT to obtain specific knowledge or expertise to address technical issuesPreparing deliverable reports and briefings

Qualifications:

Mandatory

BA/BS and 15 years of relevant experienceStrong knowledge of information technology, including all layers of the IT stackStrong knowledge of commercial products/solutions, especially COTS software application products (e.g., ServiceNow, CRM, ECM, BPM, etc.)Strong knowledge of infrastructure technologies and solutions including CloudSolution architecture experienceSuccessful systems development experience involving COTS integrationExperience developing lifecycle cost estimates for technical solutionsStrong communication, presentation and facilitation skillsCustomer service orientation

Desirable

MA/MS in Computer Science or EngineeringExperience architecting and/or leading application modernization initiativesExperience leading Cloud migration initiativesUnderstanding of federal enterprise architecture conceptsFederal IT capital planning knowledge and experienceBusiness analysis skills