“Responsibilities:
- The Solution Lead will design and develop the system architecture for a software development Product Line at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Since third-party developers oversee software design and implementation, the Solution Architect provides guidance, oversight, and advice to ensure that architectural design aligns to best practices, VA standards, and operating constraints. They will advise the VA Product Line Manager and directly lead or support the development of architectural diagrams and documentation and system information requirements. They will support evaluation of software, hardware, and other components against system requirements to ensure fit for purpose, balance with existing constraints, and compliance with standards.
- Design and develop solution architecture for integrated benefits delivery products and services
- Create diagrams and documentation with all components that comprise IT systems including network topology
- Establish system information requirements using analysis of the information engineer(s) in the development of enterprise-wide or large-scale information systems
- Design architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces
- Lead the team and develop the architectural runway providing design direction and the solution framework for applications.
- Understand and maintain the technical stack and technology used to build applications
- Collaborate with customers, end-users, developers, and project managers to analyze, design, implement, and support IT applications and systems
- Evaluate the as-is architecture against agreed upon architecture guidelines provided by VA and broader industry best practices…”
“Requirements:
- 10 years of IT experience
- Experience in design and development of IT architecture with a deep understanding of AWS architecture and services: S3, DMS, Redshift, Glue, Spectrum, Athena, Quick Sight, toolsets, and data modeling
- Experience in managing and developing in the AWS environment, as well as knowledge of Data Warehouse development or DataMart and Business Intelligence
- Proven experience with data movement and building data pipelines
- Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent discipline (or Bachelors Degree w/10 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education)
- Must be a SAFe Agile Product and Solution Management (APSM) or SAFe Product Owner (PO)/Product Manager (PM) or SAFe Architect (ARCH) or SAFe Agilest
- Must be able to achieve a moderate (Tier 2) VA position of trust…”
Read the full job description here.
G2X TAKE: This group, poised to become a true Federal IT consulting firm behemoth and quite possibly the largest Federal Information Technology contractor, is seeking a lead to design and develop the system architecture for a software development Product Line at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Peraton (and Perspecta…) were named to the list of NXT UP firms poised to make big waves in the Federal sector in 2020 and for years to come.
