Enterprise Architect

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS214, T4, Band 7

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop and communicate the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and principles to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business goals and technology roadmaps.

- Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and other stakeholders to understand business needs, goals, and requirements, and translate them into architectural solutions.

- Analyze the current state architecture landscape, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, and develop a roadmap for transitioning to the target state architecture.

- Design and document enterprise-level architectures, including business, data, application, and technology architectures, ensuring coherence, integration, and scalability across systems and applications.

- Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and guidelines, ensuring consistency, reusability, and interoperability across projects and initiatives.

- Evaluate and recommend technology platforms, frameworks, and tools that align with the enterprise architecture strategy and support business objectives.

- Identify and mitigate architectural risks and challenges, making recommendations for risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans.

- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, architects, and other stakeholders, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and knowledge sharing among IT teams, architects, and business stakeholders to drive alignment and leverage synergies across projects and initiatives.

- Mentor and coach architects and other technical staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and technical excellence.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in the related field

- Active Secret clearance.

- Due to federal requirements, all candidates must be US Citizens without Dual Citizenship to another country.

- This is an on-site position at a government facility.

- Requires presence on-site five days per week in Colorado Springs, CO.

- Candidates must reside within a commutable distance.

- Participation in a rotational on-call schedule for emergency page-outs is required.

- Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or in a similar senior-level architectural role, with a track record of designing and implementing enterprise-level architectures.

- Strong knowledge of architectural frameworks, methodologies, and best practices, such as TOGAF, Zachman, and Microservices architecture.

- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- In-depth understanding of a broad range of technologies, including cloud computing, microservices, API management, data analytics, and emer...