Remote - Portfolio Architect

Opportunity Summary:
This is a full-time employment opportunity with our direct client, a federal contractor that provides high-end management consulting and IT solutions to multiple federal agencies in the Health IT and National Security markets.

Job Description:
The Portfolio Architect plays a key role in Enterprise Architecture team with primary focus on the assigned Portfolio. The Portfolio Architect will provide the solution strategy, application design and development, cloud migration and assist in execution of systems and infrastructure information technology (IT) and support services using Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.

The Portfolio Architect will demonstrate his/her extensive knowledge in multiple development languages, software development and best practices, system design, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation tools, testing, tool integrations, and communication. The Portfolio Architect will utilize knowledge of container orchestration, cloud solutions and services in a hybrid cloud environment. The Portfolio Architect will use his/her self-motivation to show initiative to identify, research, design, develop, and promote solutions that enhance the modern development environment.
Primary Responsibilities:

• The Portfolio Architect is responsible for the architectural design, development, and deployment of the portfolio overall applications.
• Defines system solutions based on user/client needs, cost, and required integration with existing applications, systems, or platforms.
• Works with Enterprise Architecture team and assists in development of policies for standardizing systems, development tools and security practices.
• Assists in defining and executing established technology insertions, cloud migration strategy at the portfolio level.
• Provides expertise and guidance for the design, development, implementation, and sustainment of IT solutions that enhance overall system performance and availability.
• Provide technical knowledge and analysis of high-level functional systems analysis, design, and integration advice on complex matters that require expert level knowledge of the subject matter for effective implementation.
• Lead migration of legacy applications to containerized solutions such as Openshift, Kubernetes, EKS, Konvoy.
• Architecting and deploying cloud-native applications onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar Identifying requirements, researching options, designing, and implementing solutions at a leadership level for the applications included in the portfolio.
• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost, and risk assessments.
• Must be a self-starter, strong leader, and can work independently with little supervision.
• Provide leadership and direction to the cloud migration team for various initiatives within the division.

Basic Qualifications:

• 12-15 Years of experience in software design and development using containerized and microservices based components. ·
• Extensive understanding and experience programming and designing software using Java, J2EE, Angular, ReactJS, Spring MVC, JQuery, JSF, JSP, MyBatis, Hibernate, IBM MQ, Kafka, ELK, PLSQL, Oracle, WebLogic, Tomcat and AWS cloud services.
• Experience with modern development software, tools, and methodologies; Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Nexus, Maven, OpenShift, SonarQube, Fortify, Junit, Karma, Selenium, Cyprus, Docker, Artifactory.
• Experience in implementing and overseeing cloud computing strategy, and cloud deployment, operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex IT solutions on a large Program.
• Demonstrated experience designing and modernizing complex enterprise networks and legacy IT systems, including developing effective COOP/DR solutions.
• Excellent communication and written skills. 
• US Citizen with ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
• BA/BS or equivalent experience and 15+ years of prior relevant experience or master’s with 12+ years or prior relevant experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in network and cyber security design, engineering, and operations with emphasis on DHS capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience developing models using Sparx EA, Splunk, Konvoy.
• Experience with NIST SP 800 series or ISO 27000 series documents for information security management and risk assessment.
• Demonstrated experience with server virtualization technologies such as VMware, Citrix, or Hyper-V Demonstrated experience with operating systems such as RedHat Linux and Windows Server Demonstrated experience in ITIL, ISO20000 / ISO27001 implementations.
• At least one nationally recognized vendor certification Cloud Technical, Business or TCO Accreditation Cloud Architect, DevOps or SysOps Associate or Professional Certification.
• Active CBP BI
• CBP experience