Senior Domain Architect

Terms of Employment

• Contract-to-Hire, 9 months
• This position is hybrid.
• The office is located in Reston, VA.
• Candidates must reside in Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Florida, or Texas.

Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Domain Architect to drive enterprise optimization by introducing capabilities (inclusive of all functions) for their domain of responsibility utilizing in-depth knowledge and expert skills to advance domain strategies. The architect will translate these business needs into architectural solutions that meet or exceed performance, reliability, and security standards. Additionally, they will apply and adhere to enterprise roadmaps, principles, standards, and practices to guide domain strategies and their execution.

Responsibilities

• Primary for preparing domain architecture viewpoints and models depicting current, target, and interim states. 
• Use current state viewpoints to identify and analyze pain points and opportunities (PPOs). Perform advanced modeling and analysis to meet the strategic needs of the organization with respect to system, information, functional/non-functional needs, performance and security/regulatory requirements. 
• Create and utilize architecture patterns and ensure alignment with IT strategies and reference architectures. 
• Ensure target state alignment and integration across architecture domains. 
• Ensure upstream alignment / traceability to business needs via business architecture and downstream alignment / traceability with solution building blocks. 
• Lead the extension / enhancement of domain architecture strategies, standards, and guidelines. Identify and support development of reusable domain patterns.
• Collaborates on creation design, engineering and implementation of assets for internal use in solutions to improve solution quality; collaborate through implementation phase. 
• Support peer reviews and represent the architecture domain in briefings to the Architecture Review Board. 
• Collaborates publishing and maintenance of viewpoints / work products in the architecture repository, ensuring they are organized, accurate, and accessible. 
• Disposition stakeholder comments / feedback received via project and non-project channels. 
• Ensures that regulatory and compliance issues are addressed in solutions.
• Collaborate with other teams (business and technical), key stakeholders, and partners to understand needs to maximize architecture impact and address technical limitations. Evaluates/selects a solution / product design that aligns with IT / Domain strategies, standards, and guidelines.
• Researches emerging domain trends to determine their relevancy and fit for the organization.
• Participates in vendor evaluation and selection process broadly; facilitates vendor evaluation and selection for domain-specific tooling. 
• Represent the architecture domain in the drafting of RFIs/RFPs and the evaluation / scoring of vendor proposals.
• Performs development / enhancement of architecture domain methods and tools. Ensure the alignment / integration of domain architecture processes / deliverables with those of other architecture domains and SDLC disciplines. 
• Performs development of domain related communications / education material for use with stakeholders and architecture / SDLC partners.
• Leads domain assessment of new / proposed projects for architecture impacts in support of annual planning, resource estimation, and alignment with IT strategy and enterprise architecture. 
• Provide input to project, product, and enterprise technology roadmaps. Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to the architecture domain.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 8 years’ experience in Architecture Domain leading architecture initiatives.
• In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
• Strong understanding of SQL, data architecture designing and incorporating data model changes in Mainframes, DB2, Cloudera, Mongo DB and AWS Aurora Postgres / Redshift Technologies. 
• Ability to motivate and influence others so that project objectives are met in a timely manner. 
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and develop high quality solutions.
• Ability to coach, delegate, and develop team members.
• Proficient in managing cross-domain architecture solutions and impacts.
• Expertise with domain related architecture frameworks, methods and tools.
• Effective organizational, interpersonal/relationship management, analytical, communications (written and verbal) and collaboration.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Advanced degree
• Experience in 2-3 different architecture domains.
• Certified System Architect

nTech is an equal opportunity employer. All offers of employment are contingent upon pre-employment drug and background screenings. Only candidates who meet all of the above client requirements will be contacted by a recruiter.

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