Business Architect

Company Description VEA is an award winning, nationally recognized, small business based in Washington, DC.

Job Description We are searching for a business architect that has experience in the following areas:

• Enterprise Architectures: designing integrated architectures for business, applications, data, and infrastructure that support large-scale change programs within organizations.
• Enterprise IT Strategy: designing business and IT strategy and policy, adaptive to the ever-changing technological developments and responding to the concrete business applications thereof.
• Transformation planning: building combined business and technology roadmaps that support the planning and execution of organization-wide transformations.
• Target Operating Models: including business capability modeling, process redesign and establishing effective business and architecture governance methodologies.
• Technical and Operational Resilience: analyzing end-to-end operations (people, process, technology) that help organizations protect their reputation and comply with regulations.

Task Duties include:

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Provide expert advice, assistance, guidance and IT consulting in support of senior leadership

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Review strategic plans, roadmaps and project plans to assess gaps and needs across the enterprise

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Develop future plans based on gap analysis and create a transition plan

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Develop business process models to demonstrate relationships and processes

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Provide suggestions and draft new policies as required

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Develop concept of operations to document enterprise standards

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Support enterprise governance processes by making recommendations to the structure, policies and planning

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Assist in Integrated Project Team (IPT) and working group establishment and coordination

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Provide a Recommended Approach for Remedies

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Provide executive briefings and updates

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Provide recommendations for and updates to Processes, Procedures and Policies

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Develop technical documentation and process flows, and prepare clear, accurate reports; Establish and maintain strong, effective working relationships.

Qualifications Candidates must have the following:

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree highly desired

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Minimum 6 years experience in a business architect, business process re-engineering, business analyst role in a federal work environment.

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Experience providing internal/external consulting services to management and technical staff in solving complex information issues.

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Possess the ability to analyze complex activities, relationships and situations, identify problems, draw logical conclusions, and develop and defend independent recommendations;

• Knowledgeable in or capable of but not limited to the following: Requirements and workflow analysis; Facilitation and coordination of meetings; Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals; Process Review, Analysis and Modeling; Customer Surveys and Interviews; and Gap Analysis and Studies.
• Familiar with the latest standards in Customer Experience platforms, Integration platforms, Rapid Application Development frameworks, Digital Marketing / Automation and/or Customer and Data Analytics, and Data Driven ways of working.
• Has a clear vision of future trends in digital / technology and their impact on organizations.
• Skill to create, review and bring together end-to-end architecture within one or more business, application, data and infrastructure architecture domains, experience in designing and defining IT strategy and business architecture
• Experience working with experienced client teams to quickly diagnose issues and develop, design and deliver solutions to address complex and challenging issues.
• Able to develop and provide a vision on projects, work streams and deliverables based on your expertise and translate this vision into concrete actions.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise, Domain and/or Solution Architect.
• Experience in modeling business processes.
• Experience as a Scrum Master.
• Above average presentation, negotiation and influencing skills, able to take the lead in organizational change, organizational sensitivity and bridge builder.
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills