Enterprise Architect Consultant

Excelicon is looking to hire a sharp, driven, and detail-oriented Enterprise Architect. The candidate will be involved with projects designing and defining business, organizational, and information technology (IT) architectures for integration across multiple domains, platforms, operating systems, and applications throughout the enterprise. Familiarity with DHS ALF/SELC processes is highly desired.

• Familiarity with DODAF or similar enterprise architecture frameworks which describe the tasks and activities, operational elements, and resource flow exchanges required to conduct operations for an enterprise organization.
• Experience as an enterprise architect with proven ability to effectively conceptualize, design, build, and refine operational views and related visualizations of enterprise processes consistent with DODAF and related EA enterprise architecture standards.
• Experience developing and visualizing use cases, operational views, taxonomies, and other enterprise architecture artifacts to logically represent the inter-relationships and interdependencies across an ecosystem of organizations, roles and responsibilities, functions, programs, systems, and other entities inherent to enterprise processes across an organization.
• Experience analyzing as-is enterprise business process architectures and making recommendations to realize efficiencies and drive mission planning / execution outcomes.
• Experience with understanding and recommending the integration of Cybersecurity into the program the enterprise architecture reviews. 
• Supports the development of business cases, documentation of pain points, gaps, desired outcomes, and measures of success, strategic intent/vision statements, and user stories.
• Leads and participates in architectural and business needs assessment workshops to produce architectural content to document architectural considerations covered in these workshops.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ experience
• Must understand the FEAF, DODAF and TOGAF frameworks, approaches, processes and methodologies as both methodologist and practitioner.
• Understanding of the DHS Acquisition Lifecycle Framework (ALF) and System Engineering Life Cycle (SELC) highly preferred.
• Supports the development of business cases, documentation of pain points, gaps, desired outcomes, and measures of success, strategic intent/vision statements, and user stories.
• Leads and participates in architectural and business needs assessment workshops to produce architectural content to document architectural considerations covered in these workshops.

Education and Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited institution required. 
• ‪Be a U.S. citizen with a current federal clearance (Public Trust or above) or an active clearance from a Federal Agency
• ‪Have three (3) years of technical writing experience with system design or enterprise architecture, at minimum.
• Have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution; and,

Preferred/Highly Desired: 

• Current DHS badge - HIGHLY DESIRED 

 Job Type: 

• Full-time