Description

ICF is looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to support our federal client in pursuit of improved organizational performance, mission efficiency and effectiveness. This will require a Business Needs Assessment of their Financial Management System/Platform which consists of segment and architectural analyses with subsequent recommendations in performance, business, data, application, infrastructure, and security improvements to be achieved in the future target state. If you are looking for an opportunity to help a government client, make inform and direct IT investment decisions, then this is the job for you. This position is Hybrid for our Federal client in Arlington, VA.

What you’ll be doing:

• Reviewing documentation including previous BNA, business processes, technical designs, federal guidelines and industry best practices

• Presenting outcome of the discovery process to IPT for feedback and validation

• Work with our IT SME to prepare interview questionnaires to determine performance gaps and improvement opportunities with focus on the challenges, opportunities for improvement, and potential capability enhancements. Identify and validate the list of SMEs to interview

• Work with our IT SME to conduct SME interviews and schedule any follow-ups.

• Review and analyze collected artifacts, interview transcripts, and business processes.

• Identify gaps, issues, and determine key business and technical pain-points.

• Develop overall business and information requirements associated with strategic improvement opportunities for the target state

• Define the current baseline state and develop the Baseline Observations Report.

• Further identify any gaps in business processes, performance, data, technology, and security

• areas

• Identify preliminary areas of process improvement including technology enhancements and

• any security considerations

• Conduct research into industry and federal best practices, emerging trends, technologies, and business models for inclusion in the PBGC environment. Align business needs to corporate and IT strategic plans

• Create a new BNA with modern and sustainable targets and recommendations.

• Analyze the Financial Management Segment touchpoints and/or interfaces that finance management system interfaces with other internal segments, applications or systems, and External entities.

• Perform a Financial Management segment architecture refresh, which will examine the recently modernized baseline capability for FOD,

• Document and analyze the current state of the financial management segment landscape while quantifying inefficiencies and identifying improvement opportunities.

• The effort will employ tools and methodologies such as Alternatives Analysis, Gap Analysis, Market Research and Business Needs Analysis (BNA) to conduct end-to-end FOD performance, processes, people and technology evaluation and assessment.

• Provide an examination of the prior analysis, including the prior BNA, and consider technologies, artifacts, and services to identify an effective modernization approach.

• Provide specific recommendations responding to the strategic, business and IT objectives and performance goals.

• Ensure that the target state will be formulated in accordance with best practices and industry standards to increase the maturity of the financial management segment and support the Corporate and IT strategic plans and fulfill FOD’s business needs.

• Deliver of a current state, target state recommendations, and transition plan to include implementable descriptions of alternative solutions that will effectively support the FOD team in their daily activities and to achieve their long-term goals and objectives.

• Artifacts will include prioritized recommendations for transition to the target state and a phased implementation roadmap for these recommendations.

• Conduct market research and industry/Federal best practices; to include gap analysis, process improvement, emerging technologies, and business model recommendations

• Interpreting and developing business models, system models, use cases, and sequence diagrams.

• Reviewing IT architectures, business processes, and technology innovation.

• Researching emerging technologies, processes, and best practices and serving as technical liaison for vendors.

• Creating technical architecture specifications, class diagrams, and object models.

• Suggesting an end-to-end solution architecture and ensuring all components of the solution integrate together are in compliance with security, policies, and procedures.

What you will need:

• 8+ years of proven work experience with progressively increasing responsibilities and advanced knowledge of technologies relevant to the engagement.

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.

• US Citizenship (required by Federal Government).

• The ability to successfully obtain a Public Trust, which involves a thorough background and financial investigation.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Federal Government work experience.

• Strong knowledge of various technologies, platforms, and architectural platforms.

• Experience applying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts including RESTful and SOAP-based services.

• Experience in Cloud technologies (E.g. Azure)

• Excellent problem-solving, communications, collaboration skills.

• Advanced proficiency in analytics, project planning, and negotiating.

• Ability to independently identify and learn applicable new techniques.

• Knowledge in Financial, Accounting, Budgeting, and Financial Reporting.

• Ability to identify problems and use sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternatives to make recommendations.

• May have experience applying object-oriented programming and design approaches, and patterns-based design and development.

• Ability to thoroughly pay attention to details when performing and reviewing work.

• Ability to work with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, and satisfy their expectations.

Working at ICF

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to hiring regardless of any protected characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or military/veteran status. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO & AA policy (https://www.icf.com/legal/equal-employment-opportunity) .

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email Candidateaccommodation@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. Read more here: Requesting an Accommodation for the ICF interview process (http://careers.icf.com/us/en/accommodations) .

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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$95,776.00 - $162,819.00

Virginia Remote Office (VA99)