Cloud Solutions Architect

The Sponsor's Digital Support Modernization office provides quality Enterprise IT collaborations and integration across IT programs in support of Executive strategic priorities. The multi-faceted team interfaces with several IT Executive programs. These collaboration efforts provide a wide-range of capabilities and business needs, from human resources, finances, acquisitions, medical, security, travel, supply chain, facilities, and support integration. 



Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IT roadmaps and schedules showing key milestones, deliverables, and dependencies between various IT teams and enterprise capabilities


• Track overarching program risk and mitigations between program initiatives


• Attend, document, and track forums and working groups in support of modernization initiatives and strategic objectives. To include status updates for requirements and action items.


• Develop and maintain spending plan to the Sponsor for managing oversight of large complex IT programs


• Provide a Monthly Financial and Progress Status Report to include financial breakdowns, schedules, risk and mitigations, progress, and action items. This report should be delivered to the Sponsor within the first 10 days of the month. 


• Provide project documentation, presentations, and other documents, as required by the Sponsor


• Lead and support the Sponsor's Agile Scrum and Project Management process, while adhering to the Sponsor's Agile enterprise implementation


• Develop and execute a communications plan that enables IT teams and stakeholders to understand the various phases of implementation and future direction


• Leverage the Sponsor's enterprise IT initiatives to build and enable re-useable infrastructure data flows for the Sponsor's IT development team partners


• Leverage the Sponsor's multi-cloud infrastructure and services to provide innovation solutions that meet the Sponsor's evolving needs


• Create, maintain, evolve, and brief engineering documents at the Sponsor's approval board meeting


• Support technical, architectural, and engineering discussions with the Sponsor's architecture and network engineering teams


• Work collaboratively with multiple IT development and engineering teams to document, plan, and implement technological changes


• Collaborate with Sponsor IT, security, and stakeholders to implement and manage the network and associated infrastructure to transfer data from one domain to another and provide access to partner networks and applications


• Provide and monitor audit logs to meet network and infrastructure security requirements


• Complete required accreditation documentation and maintain approved and authorized accreditation status for designated systems


• Provide Operations and  Maintenance (O&M) support for new and existing program systems, data flows, and associated networks

Requirements

• TS/SCI FSP Clearance


• Demonstrated experience program management and system integration managing successful IT complex programs; facilitating and participating in meetings and information sessions; coordinating IT program schedules; creating/distributing minutes and action items; tracing action items for successful completion


• Demonstrated experience preparing program plans and reports to include budget spend plans


• Demonstrated experience analyzing functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities and translating to IT requirements


• Demonstrated experience preparing technical proposals for presentation to engineering review boards for approval


• Demonstrated experience evaluating cloud strategy and services, and selecting appropriate cloud services to design and deploy a capability based on given requirements


• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and maintaining various network environments, including modern/current cloud environments


• Demonstrated experience building current technology servers and workstations; providing technical configuration, setup, installation services, hardware and coordination, and maintaining current workstation and server operating system and software updates/patching versions


• Demonstrated experience providing the best possible cyber defense capability to protect the Sponsor's IT assets from all manner of cyber threats, attacks, and exploitation


• Demonstrated experience planning, designing, testing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining an organization's computer and network security architecture, infrastructure, policies, and procedures; experience designing, implementing, and achieving approval to operate for IT systems


• Demonstrated experience leading Scrum Teams in using Agile methodology and leveraging scrum practices to deliver high quality products and services to customers


• Demonstrated experience organizing and communicating both verbally and written to include editing documents for varied audiences and senior-level executives


• Demonstrated experience composing technical documents including user's manuals, training materials, installation guides, troubleshooting guides, and reports

Desired Skills

• Demonstrated experience reviewing network requirements to assess enterprise options, impact, network performance, and providing advice on the most practical and cost-beneficial approach for Sponsor consideration


• Demonstrated experience coordinating, reviewing, and integrating the deliverables of information and technology architects into cohesive solutions, roadmaps, and integrated deliveries and architectures


• Demonstrated experience organizing and structuring solutions of complex challenges, including the ability to plan projects, meet objectives, assess risks, and develop mitigation strategies, manage schedules, and the development of contingency plans


• Demonstrated experience briefing customers, stakeholders, and management (at various levels) on enterprise program capabilities and statuses


• Demonstrated experience with cloud services and infrastructure

About Us

For more than 20 years, NewGen Technologies has solved our clients’ toughest IT challenges with integrity, security, and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror, aided the identification of criminals, and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of biometrics. Our team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance. #CJ