# Technical Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $187,179 - $189,750
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT has a position opening for a Technical Architect to provide technical leadership and support in the areas of IT planning, solution specification/design, and target architecture development.

The well qualified candidate will have a strong knowledge of information technology and commercial solutions; and significant experience architecting and developing technical solutions.

Responsibilities include:

- Participating as a member of the Enterprise Architecture Working Group (EAWG) and working with the GDIT enterprise architecture team to develop target architectures and evaluate IT investment requests.

- Working with the customer CIO and GDIT project staff to facilitate IT strategic planning.

- Responding to technical questions and research requests from the customer CIO.

- Performing solution scans and designing and estimating the cost of technical solutions that satisfy the requirements of IT investment requests.

- Preparing solution packages documenting recommended technical solutions and estimated costs and benefits.

- Advising/driving an application modernization initiative.

- Facilitating staff in conducting “Fit-Gap” evaluations of proposed COTS solutions.

- Providing advice and support for systems development and engineering projects.

- Coordinating “reachback” with technical subject matter experts (SME) within GDIT to obtain specific knowledge or expertise to address technical issues.

- Preparing deliverable reports and briefings.

Qualifications:

- BA/BS and 15 years of relevant experience.

- Strong knowledge of information technology, including all layers of the IT stack.

- Strong knowledge of commercial products/solutions, especially COTS software application products.

- Strong knowledge of infrastructure technologies and solutions including Cloud.

- Solution architecture experience.

- Successful systems development experience involving COTS integration.

- Experience developing lifecycle cost estimates for technical solutions.

- Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills.

- Customer service orientation.

The likely salary range for this position is $187,179 - $189,750.

## Skills

### Required
- Architecture Development
- Information Technology (IT) Solutions
- Technical Solutions
- Cloud
- Solution architecture
- COTS integration

### Nice to have
- MA/MS in Computer Science or Engineering
- Experience architecting and/or leading application modernization initiatives
- Experience leading Cloud migration initiatives
- Understanding of federal enterprise architecture concepts
- Federal IT capital planning knowledge and experience
- Business analysis skills

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