Technical Architect

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

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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 planning
• Responding 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 initiative
• Facilitating staff in conducting “Fit-Gap” evaluations of proposed COTS solutions
• Providing advice and support for systems development and engineering projects
• Coordinating “reachback” with technical subject matter experts (SME) within GDIT to obtain specific knowledge or expertise to address technical issues
• Preparing deliverable reports and briefings

Qualifications:

Mandatory

• BA/BS and 15 years of relevant experience
• Strong knowledge of information technology, including all layers of the IT stack
• Strong 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 Cloud
• Solution architecture experience
• Successful systems development experience involving COTS integration
• Experience developing lifecycle cost estimates for technical solutions
• Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Customer service orientation

Desirable

• MA/MS in Computer Science or Engineering
• Experience architecting and/or leading application modernization initiatives
• Experience leading Cloud migration initiatives
• Understanding of federal enterprise architecture concepts
• Federal IT capital planning knowledge and experience
• Business analysis skills

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

15 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required