Solutions Architect (FDIC)
Apply NowCompany: Sharp Solutions, Inc.
Location: Washington, DC 20011
Description:
SSi has principals that are an integral part of the organizations characteristic and are fundamentally essential to the shaping of everyday activities that connect to our broader mission and vision. As an organization SSi is committed to:
Foster a culture of innovative and out of the box thinking:
We fundamentally understand that each employee has something unique to offer to the organization. We foster a culture that nourishes innovation by empowering staff, leverages their passions, and encompasses a circle of trust where it's all about thinking of new ideas and getting good feedback.
Invest in our Resources
Employees are essential, their physical and mental well-being are pivotal to the growth of our organization. Our company culture, productivity, and overall employee happiness stem directly from how much training, responsibility, and empowerment they have within our organization. Our focus is on improving the growth of individual through education, allowing them to play central roles, so they can grow and add value to the company.
Provide solutions that are in the best interest of the customer and improve their strategic posture
We are in business to serve our customers and do what is in their best interest. Our philosophy is to offer services that are complete. We strive to provide services that do more to help the customer improve in all areas including areas that they may not have considered.
Give thoughtful considerations to our actions and their affects
We give thoughtful consideration to each other's differences and opinions. We must give our individual best to get the job done right. Everyone is accountable for their behaviors, exercising rational judgment, and giving thoughtful consideration to their professional activities and decisions.
Sharp Solutions, Inc. is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Solutions Architect to join our team in Washington, DC andprovide unparalleled support to our customer and to begin an exciting and rewarding career within SSI.
The Solutions Architect Lead provides leadership support to the Architecture and Design Section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) customer and SSi, with a focus on providing subject matter expertise to develop, architect, and direct the process of acquiring, building, modifying, and interfacing IT resources throughout the FDIC
enterprise. This position will also help to define the current target state and future state target architectures for FDIC. The Solutions Architect will also help to define strategy, conduct analysis, perform research, and provide governance to help the FDIC achieve the target state architecture.
Responsibilities:
1. Modernize and enhance enterprise architecture capabilities to provide an
improved user experience (UX).
2. Identify and address opportunities to improve the communication and adoption of
architecture insights and strategic direction to CIOO, and ensure ADS services are
clearly defined, communicated and structured.
3. Improve the performance and availability of architecture services through scalable
processes and procedures.
4. Improve the usability of architecture artifacts for increased stakeholder value.
5. Advocate for emerging trends in the market.
6. Establish architecture adoption measures and metrics that demonstrate value to
the organization, and collect/analyze the relevant metrics.
7. Assist in establishing and maintaining architecture practices, centers of excellence
and governance structures.8. Ensure a strategic technological direction for CIOO to be informed by the target
state architecture (TSA).
9. Provide expertise in strategic and tactical planning for business solutions and
application portfolio optimization strategies including the development of
efficient roadmaps for change.
10. Execute projects using appropriate analysis techniques to deliver quality business
recommendations/results in short timeframes (e.g., 3-6 weeks).
11. Analyze, model, and identify improvement opportunities in business processes or
applications with measurable baselines and benefits to justify change.
12. Support a range of discovery initiatives.
13. Provide expertise in the Requirements Management.
14. Conduct alternatives analyses, cost/benefit analyses, financial analyses, feasibility
studies, market research/analyses, portfolio/sub portfolio rationalization analyses,
software analyses, and similar types of analysis in support of a range of business
needs to recommend efficient, effective, and secure strategies and solutions.
15. Provide expertise in assessing feasibility of cloud or managed service solutions to
address business pain points, business capability needs and provide cost effective
alternatives to custom development.
16. Provide expertise in enterprise and solutions architecture and design that aligns
with the FDIC business strategy and IT capabilities ensuring the effectiveness of
our current technology portfolio and identify any future gaps.
17. Provide support for organizational change management (OCM) and OCM
communication related activities on projects or initiatives.
Position Requirements:
Security Clearance
Ability to obtain and maintain FDIC suitability.
SSi is an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, on-the-job injury, sexual orientation, political affiliation or belief. Employment decisions are made without consideration of these or any other factors that employers are prohibited by law from considering. Any discriminatory action can be a cause for disciplinary action. SSi also prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and will reasonably accommodate applicants with a disability, upon request, and will also ensure reasonable accommodation for employees with a disability. Veterans are encouraged to apply.
Foster a culture of innovative and out of the box thinking:
We fundamentally understand that each employee has something unique to offer to the organization. We foster a culture that nourishes innovation by empowering staff, leverages their passions, and encompasses a circle of trust where it's all about thinking of new ideas and getting good feedback.
Invest in our Resources
Employees are essential, their physical and mental well-being are pivotal to the growth of our organization. Our company culture, productivity, and overall employee happiness stem directly from how much training, responsibility, and empowerment they have within our organization. Our focus is on improving the growth of individual through education, allowing them to play central roles, so they can grow and add value to the company.
Provide solutions that are in the best interest of the customer and improve their strategic posture
We are in business to serve our customers and do what is in their best interest. Our philosophy is to offer services that are complete. We strive to provide services that do more to help the customer improve in all areas including areas that they may not have considered.
Give thoughtful considerations to our actions and their affects
We give thoughtful consideration to each other's differences and opinions. We must give our individual best to get the job done right. Everyone is accountable for their behaviors, exercising rational judgment, and giving thoughtful consideration to their professional activities and decisions.
Sharp Solutions, Inc. is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Solutions Architect to join our team in Washington, DC andprovide unparalleled support to our customer and to begin an exciting and rewarding career within SSI.
The Solutions Architect Lead provides leadership support to the Architecture and Design Section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) customer and SSi, with a focus on providing subject matter expertise to develop, architect, and direct the process of acquiring, building, modifying, and interfacing IT resources throughout the FDIC
enterprise. This position will also help to define the current target state and future state target architectures for FDIC. The Solutions Architect will also help to define strategy, conduct analysis, perform research, and provide governance to help the FDIC achieve the target state architecture.
Responsibilities:
1. Modernize and enhance enterprise architecture capabilities to provide an
improved user experience (UX).
2. Identify and address opportunities to improve the communication and adoption of
architecture insights and strategic direction to CIOO, and ensure ADS services are
clearly defined, communicated and structured.
3. Improve the performance and availability of architecture services through scalable
processes and procedures.
4. Improve the usability of architecture artifacts for increased stakeholder value.
5. Advocate for emerging trends in the market.
6. Establish architecture adoption measures and metrics that demonstrate value to
the organization, and collect/analyze the relevant metrics.
7. Assist in establishing and maintaining architecture practices, centers of excellence
and governance structures.8. Ensure a strategic technological direction for CIOO to be informed by the target
state architecture (TSA).
9. Provide expertise in strategic and tactical planning for business solutions and
application portfolio optimization strategies including the development of
efficient roadmaps for change.
10. Execute projects using appropriate analysis techniques to deliver quality business
recommendations/results in short timeframes (e.g., 3-6 weeks).
11. Analyze, model, and identify improvement opportunities in business processes or
applications with measurable baselines and benefits to justify change.
12. Support a range of discovery initiatives.
13. Provide expertise in the Requirements Management.
14. Conduct alternatives analyses, cost/benefit analyses, financial analyses, feasibility
studies, market research/analyses, portfolio/sub portfolio rationalization analyses,
software analyses, and similar types of analysis in support of a range of business
needs to recommend efficient, effective, and secure strategies and solutions.
15. Provide expertise in assessing feasibility of cloud or managed service solutions to
address business pain points, business capability needs and provide cost effective
alternatives to custom development.
16. Provide expertise in enterprise and solutions architecture and design that aligns
with the FDIC business strategy and IT capabilities ensuring the effectiveness of
our current technology portfolio and identify any future gaps.
17. Provide support for organizational change management (OCM) and OCM
communication related activities on projects or initiatives.
Position Requirements:
- A minimum of ten 10 years + performing the following activities:
- Experience with Event Driven Architecture, Service Oriented
Architecture, Containerization, Object Oriented Development, CI/CD
Automation, Cloud Architecture, Platform as a Service, Technical
Documentation - Developing enterprise architecture artifacts such as current and target state
business process models, data models, sequence diagrams, etc. - Experience with ins-pi and its components, e.g., YouDesign, UPM-x, and
Designer
- Experience with Event Driven Architecture, Service Oriented
- A Bachelor's degree preferred ISC2 CISSP is required Security + and/or related Cloud and Security Certifications is desired
- Experience developing solutions across a diverse and heterogeneous IT environment, including the following:
- Technical leadership in Enterprise Architecture (EA), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and IT Service Delivery to multiple U.S. Government Agencies.
- Experience in TOGAF, Federal Enterprise Architecture or similar Enterprise Architecture models.
- Experience in NIST RMF or CDM Framework Demonstrated experience in leading of team that design security solution using existing and emerging technologies to achieve enterprise solutions.
Security Clearance
Ability to obtain and maintain FDIC suitability.
SSi is an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, on-the-job injury, sexual orientation, political affiliation or belief. Employment decisions are made without consideration of these or any other factors that employers are prohibited by law from considering. Any discriminatory action can be a cause for disciplinary action. SSi also prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and will reasonably accommodate applicants with a disability, upon request, and will also ensure reasonable accommodation for employees with a disability. Veterans are encouraged to apply.