Chief Architect

$146,000 - $234,000/Yr

Peraton - Sterling, VA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Sterling, VA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

Peraton is seeking a Chief Architect to provide technical and architectural leadership for the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations Program. This role involves modernizing legacy networks, applications, and databases to support consular services globally, while driving mission success as a technical leader.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and architectural leadership on a program of 400+ team members supporting enterprise applications, systems, networks, databases, identity management, infrastructure, security, and cloud.
• Provide thought leadership on the design, development, implementation, and management of Consular Affairs mission essential and critical systems and services.
• Brief senior Government leadership on current and future state architectures that deliver capabilities to domestic Passport Agencies, overseas Posts, and Consular Affairs locations in the Washington, DC area.
• Lead the development and delivery of architectural diagrams (DoDAF or equivalent) for consumption by executives, program leads, and technical personnel.
• Provide technical leadership to CAEIO projects in the areas of enterprise architecture, information/data flow models, and data dictionaries/standards/structure.
• Develop and maintain the logical enterprise architecture that facilitates interoperability of more than 80 disparate CA applications and their underlying systems and services.
• Collaborate on priority initiatives with CAEIO teams and major stakeholders across CA.
• Leverage authorized tools for the development of Agile epics, features, and stories (in Jira) as well as architectural data and diagrams (in Confluence).
• Ensure architectural efforts consider requirements in areas including security, capacity, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Collaborate with Program leadership on the development of knowledge/training programs that enhance team members' knowledge of architectural concepts and best practices.
• Provide regular input of architectural activities to weekly activity reports, project status reviews, contract status report, and other deliverables.
• Support responses to Peraton corporate and Department of State data calls.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and an active SECRET Government Security Clearance.
• 5+ years' experience as Architect, Technical Lead, or Solution Developer.
• 10+ years' experience architecting and/or engineering mission critical/essential capabilities for the Federal Government.
• Experience briefing and working directly with senior government and corporate leadership.
• Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical architectures in complex, large-scale environments supporting internal and external (public) users.
• Experience developing and implementing IT architecture plans, enterprise information architecture standards and guidelines, software development methodologies and strategic plans.
• Experience developing data sharing standards and architecting scalable service-oriented solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Architectural experience with enterprise systems leveraging containerization, micro-services, and hybrid-cloud solutions.
• Advanced Degree and/or industry-relevant certifications in Architecture, Engineering, or Information Technology.
• Experience with Department of State and/or similar Federal customers.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $146,000 - $234,000 based on experience and other factors.