Senior Solutions Architect with Security Clearance

Company: Octo Consulting Group
Location: Alexandria
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

Company Information Octo Consulting Group (Octo) is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of digital services for the federal government. Octo specializes in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes. Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region's best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice! Job Description Octo Consulting Group seeks a Techno/Functional SME for a newly awarded Senior Solutions Architect role. The ideal candidate will be a strategic, key resource on a consulting team responsible for providing engineering support and implementation services for a leading Federal agency's IT modernization efforts. In this role, you'll be responsible for the overall technical approach and participate in implementation, as necessary. As a subject matter expert, you'll leverage relevant application architecture experience, keeping your skills sharp and support other team members in gaining knowledge and trust in a well-defined architectural road map. Responsibilities include, but not limited to: * Identification, development, and refinement of the target architecture, transition plans from existing, requirements, priorities and development plans for next generation initiatives. * Collaboration, coordination, review and analysis with all development, infrastructure and supporting teams. * Collaboration and integration with all USPTO efforts including Front Office initiatives, all offices under OCIO as well as all Business Units to ensure consistency with architecture and technology, support of enterprise efforts and integration with supporting services. * Maintain, and plan for, the long-term strategies and goals for the full scope of efforts including support for the architecture, requirements, integration and migration with current production systems, infrastructure, resolution of systemic issues, enterprise initiatives, priorities, resolution of issues and development plans. * Provide direction and guidance for emerging technologies. * Provide guidance for strategic and annual planning including alignment with the business architecture, identification of dependencies, overlaps and gaps and priorities of projects and provide solutions and mitigation strategies. * Review and provide recommendations, presentations, strategy and guidance to the USPTO team, steering committees and senior management; and support executive briefings. Create/generate related reports and other documentation. * Ensure all architecture efforts follow Enterprise Architecture, Standards, Guidelines and Policies including the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and that documentation is in accordance with Section 508 requirements. Skills & Requirements * Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 15+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and enterprise level architectural engineering. * Significant experience in solutioning, architecting, designing, migrating and operating an application environment. * Significant experience in providing system architecture and application architecture recommendations. * Experience with Cloud, Virtualized environments including both internal and external solutions, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS. * Experience with and/or in-depth knowledge of more than one Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.). * AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Professional strongly preferred). * Fluent in current and emerging software/hardware technologies in order to provide strategic recommendations. * A confident, self-directed, credible business and technology profile with drive and energy. * Excellent leadership, interpersonal, presentation and communication (written and oral) skills, and able to articulate ideas concisely. * Experience providing technical leadership and capabilities for proposal pursuits, white papers, presentations and other key initiatives. * Experience building effective working relationships at all levels and managing/mentoring teams to success. * The ability to obtain/maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance or Suitability. Desired Skills & Expertise: * Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Certification. * Experience with development methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and Devops. * Leading architecture, design, and development of applications and data storage for complex systems. * Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture. * Search Technologies including SOLR/Lucene. * Big Data, Advanced Analytic Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Architecture. * Java. * UNIX (HP, AIX, Linux). * WebServers and tiered architectures, JavaEE (J2EE), JBoss, Spring. * Relational databases, SQL database implementations including MySQL, Oracle, DOA, Stored Procedures, and ORM. * Non-Relational databases, NoSQL. * ReSTful Web Services. * XML Technologies. * Configuration Management/Source Control/Build Automation. Octo Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation.

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