DataStaff is in need of an Enterprise/Platform Architect for one of our direct clients in the Richmond, VA area for a long-term contract opportunity.
*This position is hybrid; 1 day per month will be onsite
Responsibilities:
- Work with key members to balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.
- Provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices.
- Provides direction, guidance, and definition of IT Platform architecture to effectively support the IT and business strategy.
- Supports all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives.
- Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
- Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
- Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
- Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
- Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
- Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.
- Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organization.
- Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
- Leads teams in developing technology plans.
- Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
- Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
- Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
- Preferred experience includes Esri's GIS tools and platform.
Required Skills:
- 10 Years - Experience in technical, substantive and methodological issues related to design architecture for new or emerging solutions and technologies.
- 4 Years - Experience in defining enterprise metadata standards and an enterprise taxonomy
- 10 Years - Experience with various aspects of enterprise architecture with knowledge of one or more formalized frameworks such as NASCIO, TOGAF, FEAF
- 10 Years - Experience applying application/software/systems development methodologies including agile approaches
- 10 Years - IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and o
- 10 Years - Experience in cloud application (Azure/AWS) /GIS architecture.
- 5 Years - experience in SaaS (Software as a Service) architecture
- 10 Years - Competency with XML constructs and schemas. experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST
- 7 Years - Partner with architects, other technical team members and to develop roadmaps and strategies to support agency KPIs?
- 10 Years - Create overall application and solution architectures, component designs, and systems integration and implementations for a particular business
Desired Skills:
- 3 Years - Experience with Esri's GIS tools and platforms
This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.
