IT Specialist (ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE)
What you'd do
See below for important information regarding this job. Position will be filled at any of the locations listed below. Site specific salary information as follows: Battle Creek, MI: $125,776- $163,514 Columbus, OH: $131,245- $170,624 Dayton, OH: $130,461 - $169,604 Fort Belvoir, VA: $143,913- $187,093 New Cumberland, PA: $143,913- $187,093 Ogden, UT: $125,776- $163,514 Philadelphia, PA: $138,595- $180,178 Richmond, VA: $131,385- $170,806
Major duties
Support the design and implementation of scalable enterprise cloud architectures with a specific focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring strict alignment with DoW mission objectives, IT modernization strategies, and industry best practices. Evaluate and orchestrate secure hybrid cloud environments, facilitating seamless integration between onpremises legacy systems and GCP. Drive innovation in enterprise data architecture to enhance mission interoperability and system integration. Provide architectural and technical oversight for data engineering initiatives-including ETL processes, advanced analytics, and database operations within GCP-in collaboration with cross-functional technical and analytical teams. Develop and maintain comprehensive strategic roadmaps for resilient infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking domains, ensuring secure interoperability across DoW legacy applications and modern GCP ecosystems. Partner with government stakeholders to validate cloud adoption strategies and GCP technical solutions. Conduct technical trade studies, review system designs, and oversee the implementation of approved cloudbased architecture artifacts. Author and maintain detailed architectural documentation and visualizations using the (DoDAF) and other architectural frameworks as required (UAF, TOGAF, etc.), translating operational requirements into actionable engineering initiatives. Align all GCP cloud architectures and deployments with federal security mandates, including FISMA, FedRAMP, and DoD Impact Level (IL) specifications. Support the Authority to Operate (ATO) process for new systems with relevant architecture products. Support the implementation of cloud governance and FinOps frameworks to monitor, optimize, and forecast GCP resource utilization, ensuring cost-efficiency and alignment with allocated budgets and financial models. Research and evaluate emerging GCP services and cloud technologies. Propose and implement pilots, sandboxes, and proof-of-concepts to solve complex mission challenges and prevent technological stagnation. Advise on multi-cloud complexity and risk mitigation, ensuring that GCP implementations avoid restrictive vendor lock-in where possible and maintain compatibility with broader DoW multi-cloud strategies. Establish and enforce enterprise software development policies, DevSecOps standard operating procedures (SOPs), and architectural best-practices across all cloud engineering teams.
What you need to qualify
To qualify for an IT Specialist (ENT ARCH), your qualifications must include: A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes: Providing guidance and direction in reviewing the appropriateness of existing enterprise architecture policies for new and/or highly innovative systems, technologies and fieldings. Defining problems and identifies key issues in the development of Enterprise Architecture plans and is instrumental in establishing regulatory, policy, procedural and system guidance which become the benchmark for the development of similar plans. Facilitating the exchange of concepts, management techniques, technology advances, and logistics management improvements. Conducting analysis of transformation program initiative architectures to ensure they support the implementation of agency's strategic goals and business transformation efforts. B. Education: Applicants may not qualify for this position based on education in lieu of specialized experience. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
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