IT Strategist

Summary

IT Strategist

Arlington, VA

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer's core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

The IT Strategist serves as a key member of the IT Architecture, responsible for translating enterprise mission priorities and leadership intent into actionable technology strategy, architectural roadmaps, and sequenced investment decisions. This role focuses on what the organization should build, when it should build it, and why, ensuring technology investments are aligned to mission outcomes, architectural standards, and portfolio priorities.

The IT Strategist operates ahead of execution-partnering closely with the Architecture Lead and governance bodies-to shape future-state direction, inform decision-making, and reduce misaligned or duplicative investments. This role is not a project management or delivery role.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain multi-year technology and capability roadmaps aligned to mission priorities, enterprise architecture direction, and security posture.
• Translate leadership objectives, audit findings, and operational constraints into sequenced modernization strategies.
• Define future-state capability outcomes across domains such as:
• Identity and access management
• Cloud platforms (IL2-IL6)
• Cybersecurity and Zero Trust
• Enterprise service delivery and observability
• Ensure roadmaps reflect real-world sustainment, compliance, and resiliency requirements.

Portfolio & Investment Alignment

• Provide decision-quality analysis to architecture and portfolio governance bodies, including:
• Trade-off analysis
• Risk reduction vs. cost avoidance
• Impact of deferral or acceleration
• Align architectural initiatives to:
• Budget cycles
• Security and compliance mandates (RMF, STIGs, IAVA)
• Operational maturity targets
• Identify opportunities for platform consolidation, cost optimization, and reduction of systemic operational risk, informed by prior success delivering multi-million-dollar savings initiatives

Architecture & Security Partnership

• Partner with the Architecture Lead and domain architects to ensure target-state architectures are:
• Technically viable
• Secure by design
• Operationally sustainable
• Contribute operational and security insight to:
• Logical target-state designs
• Architectural sequencing decisions
• Risk acceptance discussions
• Ensure architecture strategy reflects continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and Zero Trust principles, drawing on extensive hands-on experience in these areas

Governance & Executive Decision Support

• Prepare and deliver executive-level briefs for ARB, portfolio boards, and senior leadership
• Frame options and consequences, rather than prescriptive solutions, enabling informed governance decisions
• Translate complex operational, security, and architectural considerations into clear leadership narratives

Continuous Improvement & Strategic Insight

• Monitor emerging technologies, federal policy shifts, and threat trends relevant to enterprise IT and cybersecurity
• Recommend strategic adjustments based on lessons learned from operational metrics, incident trends, and audit outcomes
• Institutionalize insights gained from past large-scale operational leadership to improve future planning rigor
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related fields
• 8+ years of professional experience in enterprise IT operations, cybersecurity, or engineering
• DOD IAT/IAM Level I or II Certification is required
• DOD TS/SCI clearance required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of enterprise IT strategy and architecture principles, including the translation of mission objectives, risk posture, and compliance requirements into forward-looking technology roadmaps and capability-based planning.
• Knowledge of federal and DoD IT environments, including operation and governance of IL2-IL6 cloud platforms, Zero Trust security models, and enterprise identity and access management.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and compliance mandates, including RMF, NIST, STIGs, FISMA, and IAVA/IAVM processes, and how these requirements influence architectural decision-making.
• Knowledge of large-scale IT service delivery models, including Tier 1-3 operations, incident and problem management, and SLA/KPI governance, sufficient to inform strategic planning without performing operational execution.
• Knowledge of portfolio governance and investment decision processes, including how architectural sequencing, risk reduction, and cost avoidance inform executive-level prioritization.
• Strategic analysis and roadmap development skills, enabling the creation of multi-year technology roadmaps that balance mission urgency, security posture, operational sustainability, and fiscal constraints.
• Decision-framing and trade-off analysis skills, including the ability to present multiple viable options with clear articulation of risk, cost, dependency, and long-term impact.
• Executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical, security, and operational considerations into clear, decision-ready briefings for senior leaders and governance bodies.
• Architecture collaboration skills, supporting productive engagement with architecture leads and domain architects to ensure future-state designs are technically viable and strategically aligned.

How you'll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there's always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

Benefits

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.

Chenega MIOS's culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

Corporate citizenship

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.

Learn more about Chenega's impact on the world.

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Tips from your Talent Acquisition Team

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Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com

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