Enterprise Architect III

1 month ago


Frederick, United States Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Full time
Enterprise Architect III

Job ID: req4056
Employee Type: exempt full-time
Division: Enterprise Information Technology
Facility: Frederick: Ft Detrick
Location: PO Box B, Frederick, MD 21702 USA

The Frederick National Laboratory is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. The lab addresses some of the most urgent and intractable problems in the biomedical sciences in cancer and AIDS, drug development and first-in-human clinical trials, applications of nanotechnology in medicine, and rapid response to emerging threats of infectious diseases.

Accountability, Compassion, Collaboration, Dedication, Integrity and Versatility; it's the FNL way.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Enterprise IT directorate (EIT) provides IT solutions and infrastructure across the Frederick National Laboratory (FNL) and the National Cancer Institute Frederick (NCIF), supporting the scientific community's mission of innovation and cure. Our infrastructure teams manage the NCIF data centers and equipment required to support research workloads such as genome sequencing, CyroElectron microscopy, AI/ML modeling as well as computational and bioinformatic areas. Our enterprise solutions team provides comprehensive IT solutions that support operations and laboratory logistics capabilities across the FNL and NCIF. Our Information Security and Compliance team (ISCO) provides operational and solution support to ensure all facets of cyber security.

KEY ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES

The EIT Enterprise Architect will function as the technical lead for the strategy, development, maintenance, and application of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) for our program. Working with our solution architects, software technical lead, and SAFe RTE (Scaled Agile Framework Release Train Engineer), the EA will leverage a foundation of artifacts and plans to maintain and mature our goals to modernize and consolidate solutions. The EA will own the portfolio backlog, maintaining a Chief Operating Office (COO) IT Roadmap by assimilating input from EIT management and our customer base at various levels to include executive.

Note that our portfolio of capabilities includes Commerical, Off-the-Shelf (COTS) applications, SaaS solutions, custom-developed applications, low-code tools and state-of-the-art storage/compute/network/HPC platforms.

The EA will assure application of EA principals through executive briefings, advocating across the EIT functional teams and fulfilling the EA role during NCIF IT Governance activities. The following are the objectives for this position:
  • Maintain, update, mature the structure needed for developing the Enterprise Architecture (EA). This objective includes:
    • Determine the needs and business outcomes of the enterprise architecture program and the future-state vision.
    • Update and improve EA principles (what is most important to organization) and the minimum necessary architecture standards, policies, and procedures.
    • Parnter with the infrastructure team and collaborate with the scientific labs to (a) optimize workflows and tools, (b) recognize patterns and common capabilities, (c) document and champion the results as part of the EA.
    • Work with LBR and government leadership to enhance and execute governance structures, communications plans and EA charter.
    • Working with internal Communications to establish a communication method for promoting enterprise architecture awareness and artifacts.Maintain documentation of the current (As Is) portfolio of EIT systems, data, technical/network, and other enterprise architectures including:
  • Matrix of existing capabilities to be used for business need requests and modernization roadmap.
    • Matrix of existing capabilities to be used for business need requests and modernization roadmap.
    • Component diagram(s) of FNL business systems, interfaces and data flows.
    • Platform description listing to include preferred, supported and EoL.
    • Determining which technology is at risk, prioritizing a consolidation sequence, and identifying areas most needing IT support
  • Maintain the 3-5 year IT Roadmap to help achieve the business outcomes as determined and prioritized by the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). This objective includes:
    • Addressing strategic high-level direction for next 3-5 years.
    • Building out a high-level Business and Data Architectures taxonomy (large categories to organize data)
    • Gathering mandates, directives, guidance, and other forms of documentation and research industry best practices for modernization initiatives that could affect the direction of the company's interests.
    • Working with operational leadership, scientific leadership, and the EIT product owners, create notional high-level "To-Be" architectures staying consistent with the established future-state vision, strategic imperatives, and business outcomes.
    • Identifying the architecture gaps between the "As-Is" to the "To-Be" architecture and the steps to support creation of a short-, medium- and long-term architecture strategy. Identifying key "pain point" areas as the short-term focus.
  • Support modern, fundamentally sound and common solutions across EIT, including infrastructure, information security and applications:
    • Working with the Information Technology Operations Group (ITOG) director and associated teams of enterprise storage, compute, networking and HPC to assure common workflow pipeline solutions.
    • Fulfill key role in NCIF IT Governance meetings, biz need reviews and solution design sessions.
    • Lead or provide key contribution to Cloud migration and modernization strategies.
  • Regularly evaluate the capabilities matrix and data architecture with current trends and scientific needs to guide the future Enterprise Architectures (EA). This objective includes:
    • Expand knowledge of major program areas to improve EIT's support to the scientific and operational community.
    • Working with EIT's project management office (PMO) to schedule regular reviews of each portfolio and recommending changes to the portfolio's scope of projects and overall approach.
    • As part of the project lifecycle, reviewing a project's scope and approach against the future EA and recommending changes/approval as needed to the appropriate governance board.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:
  • Possession of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering from an accredited college/university according to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or four (4) years relevant experience in lieu of degree. Foreign degrees must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency.
  • In addition to the education requirement, a minimum five (5) years of SDLC experience designing, developing, and deploying and integrating systems in complex environments.
  • Professional experience with enterprise architecture development, including knowledge of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Tools, e.g. TOGAF.
  • Knowledge of cyber security, related compliance standards, and/or certifications e.g., NIST 800-53, CISSP
  • Experience with business process engineering/reengineering (BPM) of systems across multiple domains, and the management of requirements across full system life cycle.
  • Experience with agile processes, Cloud native/hybrid architecture, infrastructure components (storage, virtualization, HPC/GPU).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Ability to rapidly evaluate scientific research on new and emerging technologies
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:
  • Possession of a Master's Degree
  • Experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
  • Experience with data modelling and an integrations using SSIS/Azure
  • Experience with back-office solutions (GL, finance, HR, etc), asset management solutions and/or laboratory logistical solutions.
  • Experience with AI/ML, HPC clusters, enterprise storage platforms, GPU-enabled solutions
  • Experience with Deltek solutions, OnBase ECMS, Maximo or similar COTS solutions.


Commitment to Diversity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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