Solutions Architect (Infrastructure Operations)
Falls Church, VA

Job Description

Since 1975, MAXIMUS has operated under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People, enabling citizens around the globe to successfully engage with their governments at all levels and across a variety of health and human services programs. MAXIMUS delivers innovative business process management and technology solutions that contribute to improved outcomes for citizens and higher levels of productivity, accuracy, accountability and efficiency of government-sponsored programs. With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, MAXIMUS is a proud partner to government agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit https://www.maximus.com. Job Description SummaryMAXIMUS is looking for a Principal Architect - Software Solutions / Integration who is experienced in architecting, developing, integrating and implementing Enterprise applications utilizing Scaled Agile methodologies, DevSecOps tools and SalesForce / ServiceNow /AWS / Azure / GCP cloud native services. The candidate will have fluency and hands on experience in platforms /frameworks such as Mulesoft /Apache Spark, Kafka. The candidate is going to spearhead the development of Maximus's core competency around Enterprise Integration solution services. The role will include hands-on solutioning, reference architecture definition, engineering, development, resource management, and implementation support. Ideal candidate will have a wide range of experience architecting Microservices based solutions using, open source technology platforms such as Spring Boot, LightBend Akka. As a member of the Strategic Solutions group, the candidate must be able to operate independently and demonstrate experience leading/guiding a team to architect, develop and implement impactful next generation federal agency led mission systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Minimum Requirements:- Typically requires an advanced technical degree and a minimum of 12 years in progressively responsible positions.- Individual contributor who oversees large, technically complex projects.- Consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues.- Position is recognized as a subject matter expert within a particular discipline.- Some barriers to entry exist at this level (Sr Executive approval).- Knowledgeable of emerging trends and may contribute to and influence best practices within discipline.

Essential Job Duties:

* Evaluate technology, market trends and industry plus identify prospective impact on business.
* Participate to develop and manage ongoing enterprise architecture governance structure on basis of business plus IT strategies.
* Perform as sounding board as well as IT consultant and business leaders to develop IT infrastructure solutions.
* Promote organization architecture process and results to organization inclusive of business leaders and enterprise's IT.
* Lead and direct to prepare governing principles to guide decision making pertinent to infrastructure architecture.
* Develop implementation plan for infrastructure architecture on basis of IT strategies and business requirements.
* Ensure optimal governance structure and comply with activities related to infrastructure architecture adherence.
* Enforce infrastructure architecture execution as well as ongoing refinement tasks.
* Stimulate evaluation plus selection of entire infrastructure architecture standards commensurate with IT's business partners.
* Consult project teams to fit infrastructure architecture assignments and identify need to modify infrastructure architecture to attain project requirements.
* Identify need to change technical architecture to incorporate infrastructure needs.
* Consult with project teams of infrastructure development to fit entire architecture infrastructure.
* Identify enterprise requirements for structures, resources and cultural modifications required to support infrastructure architecture.
* Ensure documentation of entire architecture design and evaluation work.
* Develop and execute communication plus education plan for infrastructure architecture.

Project Specific Requirements:

* Experience with Storage / Network / Compute / Virtualization
* Data center operations
* Hybrid Cloud / Private / Public cloud based infrastructure
* Has customer facing skills
* Leadership skills and should be able to manage opportunities with subs / partners / capture / proposal /Ops teams
* Detail oriented
* Federal standards FISMA / FEDRAMP / NIST

EEO Statement: Active military service members, their spouses, and veteran candidates often embody the core competencies MAXIMUS deems essential, and bring a resiliency and dependability that greatly enhances our workforce. We recognize your unique skills and experiences, and want to provide you with a career path that allows you to continue making a difference for our country. We're proud of our connections to organizations dedicated to serving veterans and their families. If you are transitioning from military to civilian life, have prior service, are a retired veteran or a member of the National Guard or Reserves, or a spouse of an active military service member, we have challenging and rewarding career opportunities available for you. A committed and diverse workforce is our most important resource. MAXIMUS is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. MAXIMUS provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disabled status.