Senior Architect
Alexandria, VA

Job Description

Job Description

Description

The Senior Architect provides enterprise architecture expertise to translate an enterprise's strategy into a future enterprise architecture and a transition plan (i.e. roadmap) to achieve that future state. Uses multi-disciplinary techniques, for example: business process decomposition and redesign, information engineering, organizational redesign, change management, IT strategy and architecture, and performance measurement, to assist in enterprise business transformation and EA implementation. Interacts at a variety of points within the enterprise's governance process to assist in implementation of the transition plan, to include organizational strategy development, capital planning and investment control, portfolio and project management, systems development, and operations. Designs, develops, and maintains current and future views and data describing the enterprise architecture. Researches and advises on the selection of technologies to include within the enterprise architecture. Provides analyses of potential changes to the EA. Conducts reviews and analyses of architectures to ensure compliance with EA policy. Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes and procedures to ensure EA policy compliance or to improve the EA. Coordinates and collaborates with subject matter expert and other architects to reflect reengineered business processes into the EA.

Roles and Responsibilities

* Analyzing the requirements of in-scope systems and breaking them down into agile sprints.


* Researching potential solutions to decide if they will be suitable, rather than building a completely new system.


* Discussing plans for the structure of the system with the client and recommendations for potential highly available (HA) configuration and fail-over capability.


* Performs discovery on current disaster recovery capability.


* Works with the Infrastructure and SW Systems Engineer Lead to plan and orchestrate changes to the architecture to ensure HA/BC/DR.


* Coordinates failover planning and testing of HA, BC and DR capabilities.



Qualifications

Required

* Bachelor's degree and twenty (20) years of experience; Masters and fifteen (15) years or more of experience.


* Experience with DR/BC/HA implementation.


* Experience with on-prem data centers and cloud based solutions.



Desired

* USPTO knowledge is desirable



Overview

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability