Description

Responsibilities Provide the analysis, development and evaluation of new government-wide modernization strategies, plans and TSA direction, in order to recommend technology policies, standards and guidelines.

Identify and facilitate the creation of enterprise-wide solution development standards, policies and guideline to support standardized practices, unify technologies, common technology stacks, share frameworks, methodologies, and patterns.

Recommend and create framework for solution development standards and enforcement based on industry best practices and previous experience.

Identify enterprise platforms, products, and technology stacks using common patterns and services that leverage a modular/composable architecture approach for standardization.

Develops, recommends, implements and manages IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy and architect deliverables for the organization.

Define standards and policies across all TSA layers and approaches to mandate the adoption of standardized practices and shared technology platforms for the channels, integrations, infrastructure and security.

Establish governance processes to ensure compliance with defined standards and develop KPI and metrics to measure standards compliance rate and effectiveness.

SkillsExperience and Skill Set Requirements

Demonstrated experience in development and implementation of Enterprise Architecture and standardization practices for enterprise.

Knowledge and experience in Application architecture, Technology Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Experience with modular architecture including microservices, API, standardized application patterns

Demonstrated Strategic thinking and development, aligns strategic objectives with technology and resources

Ability to define business capabilities and processes

Experience providing direction on operationalizing business strategy including systems, processes and required data.

Demonstrated Transformation thinking, and understanding of data interdependencies

Experience identifying technology risks and mitigations

Experience developing IT strategy aligned with business vision.

Ability to streamline application landscape for optional performance, decommission redundancy and reduce cost.

Knowledge of Cloud architecture and relevant technologies to implement solutions in an enterprise environment (storage, web services, API, DevOps, security, networking, Middleware, VMware, CI/CD pipelines, etc.)

Familiarity in multiple programming and coding languages (.NET, ASP.NET, C#, Javascript, CSS, HTML, etc), application program interface (API) management, and network/security systems, and knowledge of various complex IT ecosystems

Experience with AI, ML Machine learning, LLM Large Language Model, RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Demonstrated experience using communication skills to discuss issues, seek common ground between parties, lead development of required standards

Strong facilitation skills to lead design discussions and negotiations, and present recommendations and advice to stakeholders on introduction of new and emerging technologies related to digital product development

Proven experience building relationships, liaising with external partners and vendors to coordinate projects and share information, being resilient and driven to deliver

Ability to conceptualize and communicate technical concepts to stakeholders from different business areas and to inform, and advise on, potential issues.

Strong persuasion, networking and negotiating skills to assist business and IT managers to appreciate the long-term benefits of including technical and application architecture, assessing security and privacy in strategic planning, business transformations and IT projects

Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; presentation skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.

A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Experience in Stakeholder Engagement including presentations and briefing notes and conducting / facilitating meetings

Experience and knowledge in Project Management

Must haves:

Familiarity in multiple programming and coding languages (.NET, ASP.NET, C#, Javascript, CSS, HTML, etc), application program interface (API) management, network/security systems, and knowledge of various complex IT ecosystems

Experience with AI, ML Machine learning, LLM Large Language Model, RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Experience in Stakeholder Engagement, including presentations and briefing notes, and conducting/facilitating meetings

Creating Presentations OR workshops for different stakeholders and presenting to Seniors/COOs/CIOs