System Architect
Procession Systems
Herndon, Virginia, USA
Full-time
Job Description
OVERVIEW :
As the System Architect, you will design and develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns.
Performs systems management and integration functions.
GENERAL DUTIES :
- Analyzes science, engineering, business, and all other data processing problems for application to electronic data processing systems.
- Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
- May analyze or recommend commercially available software.
- Incorporates engineering strategies for introducing new technology into the NRO’s infrastructure-related business processes.
- Develops future technology and architectural advancements to support CIO architectural strategy, technology migration, and integration and evolution.
- Applies knowledge of enterprise IT needs to design improved processes, generate valid requirements, and ensures these are consistent with the NRO’s CIO enterprise technical architecture (ETA) and Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA).
- Acts as an advisor and proposes changes to the ETA based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
- Works with appropriate parties to resolve discrepancies between proposed IT systems and enterprise quality and security standards.
- Provides technical and administrative direction for personnel performing software development tasks, makes recommendations, if needed, for approval of major systems installations.
- Designs and develops computer software possessing a wide range of capabilities, including numerous engineering, business, and records management functions.
Required Skills
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS :
- Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in enterprise data strategy, data governance practices, data stewardship principles, data architecture principles, data standards, and metadata management best practices.
- Strong data analysis and data quality assessment skills
- Experience with successful full life-cycle software development projects.
- Ability to translate requirements into end-to-end designs for systems that involve multiple interfaces and supporting data repositories.
- Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team.
- Ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), application integration technologies and approaches, Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing solutions, data management technologies (Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), Data Profiling, Data Mining, Metadata Repositories)
- Strong knowledge of data modeling and design techniques for both relational and multi-dimensional databases.
- Significant experience with popular database management system (DBMS) products such as Oracle and MySQL.
- Knowledge of CWE (Windows XP), Linux, and Solaris operating environments.
- Significant experience with HTML / XHTML and XML.
- Experience with Java / JEE APIs, JavaScript.
- Experience with other programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Lisp or C / C++.
- Familiarity with open source products and tools such as Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, Apache, Tomcat.
- Familiarity with good object-oriented design principles and UML modeling techniques
- A willingness to participate in training and project management functions as needed
- System Architect Level 1
- Bachelor's and 0 years, or Associate and 1.5 years; or 3 years' experience
- System Architect Level 2
- Bachelor's plus 3 years, or 7 years' experience
- System Architect Level 3
- Bachelor's plus 6 years; or 10 years' experience
- System Architect Level 4
- Bachelor's plus 11 years; or 15 years' experience
- System Architect Level 5
- Bachelor's plus 16 years, or 21 years' experience
- System Architect Level 6
- Bachelor's plus 16 years, or 21 years' experience
CLEARANCE :
Full Scope Polygraph minimum
About Procession Systems
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