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.