IT Principal Architect - Enterprise

Description & Requirements

The enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities.

Focus on development of the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Ensure that all of the resources and support for hardware and hardware modernization (as well as the addition of new capabilities) meet the client's requirements.

- Leverage technological advances to improve system capability, reliability, and extend system life.

- Provide a variety of technical support analysis and integration required.

- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to both Business and Technical Teams on the overall solution architecture.

- Perform gap analysis of current and targeted system operating environments.

- Provide a technology roadmap for maintaining and improving services provided to the external customers.

- Provide forward leading solution enhancements to the Business that support both cost and quality competitiveness.

- Work effectively and efficiently with other departments and Senior Leadership (Capture Management Team, IT Infrastructure, Information Security, and Application Development) to ensure all needs are included in the overall architecture.

- Assist in proposal writing and business development which includes; understanding overall client business needs, product/service strategic direction operations, federal policy requirements, and business development strategy.

- Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

• Leads analysis of the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.

• Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.

• Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.

• Provides practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.

• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.

• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product...