Enterprise Software and Solutions Architect

Enterprise Software and Solutions Architect
Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for an Enterprise Software and Solution Architect to support our work at the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.
Experienced Enterprise Software and Solution Architect to provide crossfunctional technical leadership in aligning IT strategy with the research, development, and operational goals of the program with the focus on agile delivery of enabling and holistic IT solutions, digital transformation, and platform modernization in support of the mission. The Enterprise Software and Solution Architect will work across the NLM/NCBI divisions and branches to bring together the relevant stakeholders to define, develop, and promote enterprise architecture (EA), solution standards, and governance. The incumbent will ensure that solution architectures and designs are aligned with the infrastructure and operational requirements, conform to the architecture standards and cybersecurity compliance, and are flexible and scalable. We are looking for a subject matter expert with proven experience in digital transformation, enterprise architecture, and design of complex systems, and who is also practical and handson in providing thought leadership and support in the efforts to deliver MVPs and solution prototypes.
Capture and document the current state of the software solutions, technology stacks, and system processes into a comprehensive catalog of existing resources.
Identify gaps in the current EA and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. Own the EA process, from input capture to implementation, allowing for organic growth and dynamic expansion while focusing on the highpriority projects and strategic initiatives.
Be a creative and flexible consensusbuilder, provide deep subject matter expertise, advice, and coaching.
Ensure that solution architectures and designs are appropriately robust and address business, application, information and infrastructure architectural requirements.
Partner with CTO, other architects, Technical Program Managers (TPMs), product owners and managers, tech leads (TLs), DevOps, and software engineers to build solutions that are aligned with the EA standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and conform to the cybersecurity requirements.
build decisions, and earlyphase project estimates.
Establish the EA community of practice as an inclusive environment of collaboration with a diverse team to get the best outcomes, craft forwardthinking applications and solutions, evaluate emerging technologies, and propose adoption path.
Lead a team of Enterprise Software and Solution Architects.
Provide coaching and mentoring for the team, lead by example, and empower individual team members to meet and exceed expectations.
Administrative supervisory duties: attendance, feedback for performance reviews.
Management/Leadership/Coaching skills.
Excellent soft skills and demonstrated abilities dealing with customers, peers, and management.
Experience as an Enterprise, Software, and/or Solution Architect.
Expert in at least one programming language. Solid Linux skills.
Experience with cloud technologies.
Deep understanding of architectural building blocks such as web application firewalls, load balancers, gateways, proxies, caching, queuing, messaging, data streaming systems, SQL and NoSQL data stores, file systems.
Familiarity with Cloud Native technologies such as Kubernetes, containers, service mesh and related observability tooling.
Understanding of Agile process.
in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics).
OR equivalent industry experience in Software Development.
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