[Hiring] Enterprise Architect @ARES Corporation

Role Description

ARES has an exciting new opportunity for an Enterprise Architect for the Engineering, Professional, and Administrative Support Services (EPASS) Contract. As an Enterprise Architect, you will perform work involving the analysis, planning, design, implementation, documentation, assessment, and management of the enterprise structural framework to align IT strategy, plans, and systems with the organization's mission, goals, structure, and processes. This will be a remote position.

• Developing reference models of the enterprise and maintaining the information in the IT repository
• Determining the gaps between the current and the target architecture and recommending plans for transitioning to target architecture
• Recommending the policies and principles to guide space, intelligence, and cyber related technology decisions for the enterprise architecture
• Identifying opportunities to improve enterprise-level systems to support business processes and utilize emerging technologies
• Promoting and educating customers and stakeholders on the use and value of the enterprise architecture
• Providing enterprise architecture guidance, support, and coordination to customers and IT project teams
• Documenting the enterprise architecture infrastructure, including the business units and key processes, using modeling techniques
• Ensuring technical integration is achieved across the enterprise by participating in test planning, validation, and reviews
• Evaluating the impact of enterprise architecture products and services on IT investments, business operations, stakeholder satisfaction, and other outcomes
• Coordinating and conducting governance and portfolio management activities associated with ensuring compliance with the enterprise architecture; and/or ensuring the rigorous application of information security/cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to all components of the enterprise architecture
• Supporting implementation and execution of Agile software execution in concert with Government and Prime contractors
• Supporting and advising on the development of Service Oriented Architectures for software development

Qualifications

• Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Clearance: Must have an active DoD Secret clearance, be eligible for TS/SCI and be able to maintain it
• Education: High School Diploma
• Years of Experience: 10 years of directly related experience; OR, BA/BS degree with 5 years of directly related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree
• Additional Experience:
  • DoD Acquisition Program Office experience
  • Missile Warning, Missile Defense and/or Space Domain Awareness or Command and Control Systems
  • DoDAF Architectural documentation experience (Highly Preferred)
  • Cloud-based technologies
  • Mission and/or software applications and their uses
  • Digital Engineering/Model-Based Systems Engineering
  • Sparx EA (including ProCloud Server) or Cameo Enterprise Architect
  • Modeling and simulation on software-intensive systems
  • Tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, AFSIM
  • Preferably to Space Systems Command or similar systems

Additional Information

• Location: Remote
• Hybrid: Telework capabilities for local candidates (percentage of telework allowed will vary based on the customer's discretion)
• Travel: Travel may be required to CONUS and OCONUS locations (approx. 10%)

Benefits

• ARES offers a competitive compensation and benefit package. Full time employees may participate in:
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• HSA/FSA Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness & Accident Insurance
• ESOP
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Time Off & Holidays