Overview

Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• • Synthesis of business requirements, organizational strategic objectives, and technology capacities into cohesive, actionable solutions
  • Stakeholder Engagement across multiple stakeholder communities
  • Identifying and suggesting incremental solutions with measurable results while working toward larger strategic objectives
  • Provide quality control standards and guidance for proposed solutions
  • Integrating compliance and security requirements in solutions development
  • Coordinating efforts with OCIO Architect team including Enterprise, Business, and Data Architects
  • Collaborate on the technical efforts of teams responsible for modernizing a high-profile public-facing application portfolio essential to the field operations of the Forest Service
  • Develop solution and technical architecture designs
  • Support agile design and development activities
  • Create conceptual and logical specifications through collaboration with business, enterprise, application, security, and infrastructure architects
  • Make recommendations on software, hardware, hosting services, and communications to support the product vision as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces based on solution and program increment roadmaps
  • Ensure systems are compatible and in compliance with IT standards for architecture, including the implementation of specific solutions for on-premises and cloud platforms, integration with other systems, and their external interfaces
  • Collaborate with technical teams to develop artifacts for reuse by subsequent projects
  • Conduct application rationalization efforts for legacy applications and services
  • Model business and systems processes based on findings through use case scenarios, workflow diagrams, and data models
  • Develop and refine system architectural concepts and integrated architectural models
  • Analyze and document requirements and functional specifications
  • Identify options to solve business problems and comparison of alternatives based on stakeholder criteria
  • Develop high-level cost and schedule estimates for the introduction of new systems and modernization of existing systems
  • Describe the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of systems to project stakeholders
  • Monitor the progress of systems engineering efforts and assistance with resolution of issues and mitigation of risks
  • Monitor the progress of agile application design, development, and testing efforts and assistance with resolution of issues and mitigation of risks
  • Identify options to solve business problems and comparison of alternatives based on stakeholder criteria

Work Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• This position requires a Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience
• Ability to balance priorities and task assignments
• Comfortable with the collaborative functions of O365 and Teams
• Developing templates and artifacts for stakeholder enablement
• Ability to work collaboratively across the organization
• 7 years of solution and/or technical architecture experience across a range of technologies
• 3 years of experience with large-scale modernization efforts involving enterprise applications
• 5 years as a software developer and/or infrastructure engineer
• Certifications: AWS: Solution Architect Associate (required); AWS Solution Architect Professional (desired) and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• A thorough understanding of DevSecOps principles and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) of custom applications, Low Code Development Platforms (LCDPs), and/or Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) solutions
• Demonstrated ability to digest complex issues, assess various options, and create recommended paths for solutions and services
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multi-functional teams and businesses dealing with software and hardware products
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex topics with senior leaders in an organization
• Demonstrated understanding of technical issues pertaining to enterprise scalability, economies of scale, and their impacts on total costs of ownership (TCO) in very large deployments.