VEA is an award winning, nationally recognized, small business based in Washington, DC.
The Infrastructure SME will analyze and define advanced technologies relevant to the applications and services within the enterprise architecture. He/she will provide guidance to project teams in the implementation and adherence to governance principles, policies and procedures. They will Identify and manage exceptions to the governance standards and provide leadership and skills transfer across the architecture group with respect to due processes, methodologies and relevant best practices. They will research, monitor and communicate technology trends. He/she will provide leadership and recommendations about technological opportunities to the entire client enterprise for a broad, diverse and complex set of functions.
Responsibilities:
Assist all phases of enterprise architecture development and implementation.
Assist opportunity assessments and proofs-of-concept to assess the value of merging technologies.
Collaborate with IT leadership on the development of the IT strategic plan.
Assist in developing high level financial and business case models to assess technologies and assist in prioritization of the IT portfolio.
Assist in developing strategies, road maps and business systems architectures for IT and the business.
Assist in developing technical and modeling standards across IT and the business.
Assist in providing functional expertise on projects coordinating and facilitating requirements gathering.
Design an entire system configuration including hardware, software, and communications.
Develop the Technology Architecture and Service Component Architecture
Propose innovative technologies that are scalable to fulfill future business technology needs of the agency.
Provide architectural views that help communicate the complexity of large systems and facilitate management of extensive, complex environments
Focus on the strategic use of emerging technologies to better manage the enterprise’s information and consistently insert those technologies into the enterprise
Consults on the implementation of technology solutions based on the architecture development.
Develop communication briefings for technical executive leadership on various issues related to technology architecture
Assist in the defining and implementing technology governance standards and activities
Assist in developing Enterprise IT products and services reference model
Assist in developing a Services component Architecture
Assist in developing a catalogue client application services
Assist in the promotion to reuse these products and services across the enterprise
Provide technical guidance and counsel to project teams to ensure alignment to the IT Architecture
Identify new and changing technical skill set requirements
Requirements:
Minimum 7 years experience in infrastructure
MCITP (Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional) or MSCE (Microsoft Certified System Engineer) and Amazon Web Services certifications highly desired
Full lifecycle experience with many application (functional) and infrastructure products, technologies, platformas and services
Ability to communicate verbally and in writing (including e-mail) at a professional level and to distill complex technical and management data to a laypersons understanding with conciseness, clarity, and accuracy.
Ability to organize complex concepts in written or presentation formats.
Ability to clearly present information, verbally and in writing, to audiences of diverse technical backgrounds. Excellent communication and negotiation skills, innovative and creative.
Microsoft office suite to include creating documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations for analysis often with no template or guide. Spreadsheets may include formulas and data imports and exports.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any additional federal, local or state protected class.
Virtual Enterprise Architects, LLC (VEA) is a small disadvantaged, woman and minority owned company that has a track record of delivering high quality management consulting services to public and private clients. VEA is the 2014 Small Business Administration’s Small Business of the Year for DC and 2014 SmartCEO’s Emerging Technology Implementer of the Year. VEA is also the 2013 Industry Solutions Provider of the Year by the Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA).
VEA consultants have a wealth of experience and educational backgrounds that contribute to client projects. VEA consultants hold active clearances and certifications in one or more of the following: Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, Project Management, Network Management and Information Security.
VEA’s mission is to provide holistic consulting to integrate the strategy, business and technology needs of our customers. We transform clients from its current state into the future state by transforming first the minds of its leaders, the core business processes and its infrastructure. VEA specializes in enterprise architecture, strategic planning, capital planning, proposal management, contract administration, financial management, IT program/project management, requirements management and analysis, information security, systems design/engineering, data architecture, network engineering and test planning.
