About Beacon Systems Inc

Beacon Systems, Inc, delivers Program Management, Science, Engineering, and Technology Solutions to Federal, Commercial State, and Local Agencies. We are a subsidiary of Radiant Digital Solutions. Our Technology support to many DoD Agencies, NASA, Voice of America, FDA, and State Agencies such as State of FL, RI, MS, ND, VA, and WV extends our delivery of solutions worldwide.

Position: Director, Enterprise Architecture

Place of Performance : Onsite - Tallahassee, FL

Duration: 12 Months with a possible one (1) year renewal

General Expectation

• Gain a detailed understanding of the Technology Restoration project scope directly after onboarding;
• Work closely with the Chief of Project Management Office (PMO), Program Manager, and vendors associated with the project;
• Create the technical architecture documents of all the interacting applications in the current integrated solutions, depicting applications, interfaces, and information flow currently in place;
• Document the current architectural standards followed by the mainframe, web, and mobile solutions currently in place;
• Create the architectural standards for the technologies to be used in the to-be solutions for the Department s infrastructure and security requirement compliance;
• Enforce the Department s enterprise architecture models, representations, capabilities, and components to meet the business and technology activities; and
• Validate if the proposed technical solutions meet the Department s requirements.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor s or master s degree from an accredited college or university in IT or other related field is required or four (4) years of equivalent work experience. Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis when applicable.

The Department requires the following experience, skills, and/or knowledge for this position:

1. Five (5) years of experience in architecting complex IT systems;
2. Five (5) years of experience with technical design using analytical skills;
3. Five (5) years of experience leading technical teams in large-scale projects with components of infrastructure improvements and software development;
4. Five (5) years of experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC);
5. Five (5) years of experience in building integrations between applications on different hardware platforms;
6. Strong verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills;
7. Strong leadership and motivational skills; and
8. Experience in modeling and graphical representations.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience in modernizing & migrating mainframe applications from legacy systems;
2. Experience in architecting optimal solutions for migrating applications to the cloud, preferably Azure or Amazon Web Services;
3. Experience in containerization of applications; and
4. Building application integrations using Application Programming Interfaces.