Lead Enterprise Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Remote.

Red Cedar Consultancy, LC, a fast growing IT services firm is currently looking for smart and self-motivated Enterprise Architect with the ability to take on and overcome challenges in a dynamic and collaborative team environment. Incumbent should have between 7-12+ years of experience working as an Enterprise Architect

Job Function:

Serve as lead subject matter expert and advisor in support of establishing a modern enterprise architecture and governance structures. Successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in assessing current state of enterprise architecture, researching opportunities for improvements, and advising on roadmap for future state EA which spans all levels (enterprise, segment, solution), multiple areas of architecture (e.g., mission/business, security, networking, applications, systems, and infrastructure), and multiple special domains (e.g., aviation security, cloud, mobile, identity management)

Provide strategic enterprise architectural services to include research and analysis of specific capabilities or technology areas, as well as emerging technologies and existing, mature technology and provide thought leadership towards existing and future initiatives

Apply and enforce enterprise architectural principles, standards, and enterprise architecture reference models to ensure alignment of programs and projects with TSA and DHS enterprise architectures.

Provide and improve services for business, data, system/application, technical, and infrastructure architectural reviews.

Provide solution recommendation services to include conducting project, program, technical, and enterprise studies and analyses of alternatives (AoA).

Research and advise on to-be architectures and Develop and document baseline and target state artifacts, transition plans, and roadmaps

Provide enterprise security architecture forward thinking and thought leadership. Collaborate with CISO and IAD to integrate enterprise security architecture domain principles with program- and project-level security assessments

Provide expertise and recommendations to address security concerns with emerging technology and special domains (e.g., AI, IoT, biometrics, mobile, cloud), and threat modeling; developing cybersecurity architecture views; ensuring adherence to NIST cybersecurity framework principles and criteria

Provide EA Governance Services. Develop and execute an integrated governance model aligned with existing TSA and DHS processes

Provide services to enhance TSA EA maturity. Support and improve EA performance via activities in the enterprise architecture management maturity framework (EAMMF) and associated reporting activities

Provide current EA information to decision-makers. Maintain, coordinate, and keep current information in TSA and DHS EA repositories

Qualifications

Minimum of 8-10 years of experience required

Proficient in MS office Suite including MS PowerApps, PowerBI, Automation, and Visio

Experience in ServiceNow, EA Tools, and Embedded Architecture is preferred

Cloud experience (Nice to have) - experience working with Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) AWS, Azure, and Salesforce platforms, and DevSecOps

EA Repository experience - experience working with EA repositories

Strong communication skills and ability to work with customers and staff

Must have a Bachelor's degree or higher

Ability to obtain maintain a government clearance

Full-time