Enterprise Architect

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

The Joint, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interagency Division (JOID) provides expert support services to a range of customers spanning across the Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and international markets. JOID provides a diverse portfolio of analytical and programmatic capabilities to help our customers make informed decisions on their most challenging issues.

SPA's NATO Allied Command Transformation Group, within JOID, provides capability development, portfolio management, program management, quality management, cost estimation analysis, standardization, reporting, software solutions and information management, and capability management support. We also provide an improved capability requirements capture process, including the generation, documentation and tracing of user requirements, with appropriate technical scrutiny, over the entire lifecycle of the requirements from capability definition through capability realization and capability usage.

SPA has a near-term need for an Enterprise Architect to support ACT Architectural Coherence in support of NATO onsite in Norfolk, VA.

The HQ SACT requires support in establishing the Enterprise Architecture function to architecturally align ongoing and future programs and initiatives delivering the Digital Transformation Implementation Strategy. The HQ SACT is responsible for developing Capability Architectures in support of the different modernization and transformation programs and part of the Business and Information Enterprise Architecture. Several Capability Architectures were developed in the past, but they need an alignment with the new NATO Digital Transformation and to better support the future Multi-Domain Operations. The support will consist of providing the high-level architectural overviews, dashboards, and heat maps to support gap/overlap analysis and coherence between multiple programs and initiatives; provide reusable architectural building blocks shared across multiple capability architectures, and support multiple capability architecture teams within HQ SACT with common processes, templates, guidelines, tools, and reports.

Will conduct a critical analysis and review of existing and under-development enterprise and capability architectures in order to gain a big picture perspective of architecture maturity across multiple projects. Develop and maintain an overarching strategic Enterprise Architecture overview linking existing program capability architectures, and support architectural coherence of multiple Capability Programs. Support data integration and advanced Business Intelligence reporting based on architectural data, requirements, and program data and creation of reports, dashboards, and heatmaps on their connections, overlaps, and gaps. Present architectural information in various formats appropriate for non-technical stakeholders and leadership, and provide architectural guidance to capability architects, program directors, and requirements managers.

Support program and project planning activities to ensure they take into account the architectural dependencies. Support capability architects to ensure consistency of design and adherence to appropriate architectural standards and to the Enterprise Architecture. Develop, configure, and maintain templates, guides, HOW TO documents and reports for Enterprise Architecture and Capability Architectures, following ArchiMate and NATO Architectural Framework 3 (NAF3) guidelines and best practices. Configure, integrate, and maintain architectural tools and shared repositories maintaining a library of reusable Architectural Building Blocks (e.g. taxonomies, reference architectures) to be used across enterprise and capability architectures.

Required:

• Active National or NATO Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a field related to Enterprise Architecture (e.g. Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Information Sciences & Technology, Mathematics, Business Administration, etc.); or 5+ years of professional experience in enterprise architecture
• Demonstrable experience (at least 5 years in the last 10) as lead/key contributor in the development of enterprise or solution architectures for complex systems and environments; able to provide a list of most relevant projects supported, architectural artifacts produced, and architecture-related tasks performed
• Demonstrable recent experience in use of and training or certification (i.e. in the last 10 years) in Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, DODAF, NAF4 or similar; able to list most relevant projects supported (no more than 3) and frameworks used
• Demonstrable recent experience (i.e. in the last 10 years) of applying ArchiMate notation for architecture modelling; able to list most relevant projects (no more than 3) and ArchiMate viewpoints modelled
• Demonstrable experience in coordinating architectural work across multiple teams and projects, and able to provide information on number of projects involved and candidate's role in the coordination process
• Demonstrable experience in working with and configuring professional collaborative architecture tools (e.g. Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris) and work with shared architecture repositories; able to list tools used, length of experience, and average size of architecture teams working with you on a shared repository
• Demonstrable experience (2 years or more in the last 10) in scripting and software development, particularly in scripting and customizing architectural tools (e.g. Sparx EA, Aris) using JScript, VBScript, SQL, XML or similar, and able to provide most relevant examples (no more than 3)
• Demonstrable experience in presenting architectural information to non-technical audience and leadership, and able to provide most relevant examples (no more than 3) together with the type of audience, architectural artifact presented, and presentation goals and outcomes
• Demonstrable experience in developing and applying architectural quality standards, modeling guides and templates, and able to provide most relevant examples (no more than 3) and role in the process (defined or applied standards/templates)
• Knowledge of the software products to support the representation of the architectures using web reporting, Data Science and Business Intelligence techniques and tools (e.g. PowerBI, Semantic Wikis)
• Experience working for NATO or similar military or international structure (i.e. International Organization or national MoD)
• Able to work fully onsite based on client needs