Responsibilities:

Strategic:

•        Serve as a functional and enterprise-level subject matter expert, providing expert consultative support that bridges the customer's business and technical communities.

•        Understand the technical environment well enough to engage credibly with subject matter experts (SMEs), without requiring deep hands-on technical expertise personally.

•        Support Senior Technical Advisors (STAs) in creating architecture models and strategic roadmaps for the enterprise.

•        Develop and maintain documentation that captures institutional knowledge currently residing only with individual staff, translating undocumented processes and decisions into formal, reusable artifacts.

•        Build and maintain a working understanding of the customer's overall organizational structure, including the roles, responsibilities, and equities of each group.

•        Develop and maintain the enterprise Roadmap, aligning near- and long-term initiatives across the organization.

•        Oversee the development of architecture assessments for senior leaders, including support to the Acquisition Center of Excellence's IT procurement lifecycle.

•        Maintain and communicate enterprise standards and changes.

•        Develop and maintain the enterprise's IT Capability Inventory and License Register.

•        Analyze enterprise information to identify and document dependencies across systems, processes, and organizational groups.

•        Interpret and apply existing enterprise models and architectural assessments to inform recommendations and planning.

•        Maintain a working understanding of the business side of the customer's environment, including how budgeting and acquisition processes function, sufficient to coordinate effectively with those functions (direct budgeting/acquisition execution is not part of this role).

Tactical:

•        Facilitate discussions with product owners and process owners across the enterprise, identifying gaps in communication and information sharing and helping bridge them so relevant groups can exchange information as needed.

•        Support intra- and cross-Division/Project governance needs.

•        Facilitate quarterly Technical Exchange Meetings with Senior Technical Advisors, Program/Project Managers, and Mission Partners.

•        Understand and effectively use Service Central to support enterprise planning and coordination activities.

•        Actively contribute in recurring forums such as Program Management Reviews (PMRs), Technical Exchange Meetings, and similar enterprise governance sessions.

•        Support the enterprise's IT governance model, advancing initiatives from strategic alignment (plans, investments, innovations) through integration (technical exchanges, investment discussions, program reviews) and cross-functional planning (feedback loops, enhanced collaboration, opportunities for innovation) to optimized resource allocation, prioritization of joint initiatives to reduce redundancy, and capacity planning.

•        Offer expertise in the form of knowledge, specialty skills, experience, or creativity in support of the CIO's enterprise architecture and IT strategy objectives.

•        Provide guidance on enterprise architecture matters as they relate to the customer's strategic objectives and goals.

Qualfications

•     •        Active TS/SCI (CI Poly Preferred). Active TS/SCI (CI Poly Preferred).

•        Master's degree and 12 years of relevant experience (or equivalent substitution per the contract's Education Substitution Table).

•        Does not need to be a deeply technical practitioner, but must understand technology concepts well enough to communicate credibly with technical SMEs and translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

•        Basic understanding of technology and architecture modeling concepts and tools.

•        Demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and process/knowledge documentation.

•        Familiarity with Service Central or comparable enterprise service/portfolio management tools.

•        Working knowledge of enterprise architecture models and the ability to interpret architectural assessments.

•        Skilled in planning and hosting meetings, and in facilitating and guiding technical discussions while capturing outcomes and action items.

•        Familiarity with DIA and CIO strategy and IT governance frameworks (e.g., IT Governance/RMB).

•        Basic knowledge of DIA IT components and mission portfolios.

•        Familiarity with project management methodologies in IT environments.

•        General understanding of government budgeting and acquisition processes (not a required background, but working knowledge is needed).

•        DoD and IC experience is desired.

•        Working knowledge of MS Office products such as Word, Excel, Project, SharePoint, and Visio.

•        Have excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

•        Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure.

•        Strong customer service skills.

•        Excellent creative problem-solving skills.

Travel:

This position is based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area (DMV) and will require in-person travel to the DIA Center (DIAC) as needed for select meetings, in addition to other travel within the Washington National Capital Region (NCR) on an as-needed basis for customer or corporate requirements.

Level of Responsibilities: 

Work includes the exercise of discretion and independent judgment concerning matters of administrative/operational needs.

Reporting Chain:

This position reports directly to the assigned Task Order Lead.

Level of Supervision Required: 

The supervisor sets the overall objectives and resources available. The employee plans and carries out the assignment, resolves most conflicts, coordinates work with others, and interprets policy on own initiative. The employee keeps the supervisor informed of progress, potentially controversial matters, or far-reaching implications.

Work Environment: 

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers and phones. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate within a team environment. Ability to type, sitting or standing, to complete work functions for hours at a time; ability to move between sitting, standing and walking on a frequent basis. This is a full-time position, requiring 40 hours per week on site, Monday through Friday, within the contract hours of 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Other Duties: 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Salary Range: $180k - $205k

Salary : $180,000 - $205,000