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SimIS, Inc.

Enterprise Architect / Solutions Architect

{Washington, D.C. – Full-Time, Onsite, Potential for some Remote}

Who We Are: Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty, relationships, teamwork, loyalty, and importance of others.

Job Title: Enterprise / Solutions Architect
Job Location: Washington, D.C.
Security Clearance: None Required / SECRET

Job Description:

The ideal candidate ensures the integration of IT programs and services; developing solutions to integration/interoperability issues; and designing, developing, and managing IT security systems that meet current and future business requirements. Responsibilities include applying or extending, enhancing, or optimizing the existing architecture; managing assigned projects; communicating complex technical requirements to non-technical personnel; and preparing and presenting briefings to senior management officials on complex/controversial issues. Additional assignments include leading IT systems development projects from design to support; evaluating the effectiveness of installed systems and services; and providing advice on and devising solutions to a wide range of IT issues.

Specific Assignments:

• Analyzes across multiple data domains, defines strategies to reduce data redundancy, improve data availability, and accessibility by partnering with the technical teams, and delivers a maintainable and reusable data architecture.
• Analyzes data attributes from multiple systems and develops Common Information Models. Governs data decisions related to data model design, data access patterns, and data services.
• Designs and develops Databases, Data Warehouse and Multidimensional Databases/Data Stores.
• Maintains data models and develops strategies for data acquisition, archival, recovery, and implementation of Database/Data Stores.

Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems.
• At least seven (7) years of post-college full-time experience developing enterprise architectures and various sub-components thereof.
• At least three (3) years of experience working on Federal Government enterprise architecture development and maintenance efforts.
• Experience developing IT strategies, business architectures, technology architectures, conducting portfolio rationalization analyses and using EA tools.
• Possess deep subject matter expertise in cyber security and must be capable of taking a ZT architecture and engineering a solution that fits into an evolving Enterprise Architecture.
• Must have previous experience in creating and maintaining a Technical Reference Model (TRM) to support segment and solution-level architecture development.
• Possess solution architecture skills in diverse areas such as application migration to the cloud, cloud storage design, mobile application design and implementation, and designing disaster recovery for futuristic scenarios.
• Subject matter expertise in IT infrastructure, supported by certifications like CCIE, CCNP, and CCSP.

Experience Desired:

• Department of Treasury or other Federal Agencies experience a plus.
• Experience applying object-oriented programming and design approaches and patterns-based design and development.
• Program Management Professional (PMP) accredited by PMBOK/PMI.
• Local to DC a plus.

Special Skills/Knowledge/Training Required/Desired:

• An Enterprise Architecture certification, such as Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) is required.
• A CISSP certification, such as ISSAP, ISSMP, ISSEP.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Short Term (SimIS provides Short-Term benefits at no cost to you)
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Holidays each year

SimIS, Inc. is an AA / EOE / M / F / VET / Drug Free Employer.