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Norfolk, VA, USA | Full Time

SENIOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.

POSITION OVERVIEW

A strategic and analytical Senior Enterprise Architect with deep expertise in modeling, designing, and managing complex capability architectures at the enterprise level within NATO frameworks. Skilled in analyzing existing architectures to identify gaps, overlaps, and dependencies, while developing clear, consistent, and complete models for new capabilities using the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF). Experienced in requirements elicitation, traceability, and alignment across capability, operational, and system levels, including interoperability and regulatory compliance. Provides architectural support to portfolio and project planning (P3M), maintains architectural artifacts with proper version control, and mentors requirements managers on best practices. Adept at supporting DOTMLPFI synchronization, developing concepts of operation and alternative courses of action, and coordinating with national and international military, civilian, academic, and governance bodies. Actively contributes to lessons learned and change management across the capability lifecycle, with readiness to represent the organization in workshops, conferences, and meetings globally.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

+ Perform analysis of existing capability architectures and their modelling at enterprise level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programmes.

+ Perform modelling, architecture and design activities of new capabilities to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.

+ Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition as well as to enterprise and portfolio management.

+ Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of capability requirements and identification of dependencies from other capabilities and/or regulatory requirements.

+ Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of higher and lower-level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.). 6. Support P3M planning activities to ensure that the dependencies between architecture and the other elements of the plans are understood and taken into consideration.

+ Maintain the architectural artefacts in their repositories ensuring version and configuration control.

+ Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to requirements managers.

+ Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.

+ Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development.

+ Organise and participate to workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.

+ Collaborate with National and international military and civilian organizations, including Centres of Excellence and academia, in support of the activities above.

+ Identify Lessons and contribute to their Learning within the organization.

+ Support to other requirements management activities across the capability lifecycle.

+ Support to change and configuration management of requirements across the lifecycle.

+ Support the coordination of architecture related products with Management and Governance.

+ Support the Branch Head CR and travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO's boundaries for up to 30 days per year.

+ Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labour category.

Required Qualifications:

+ At least five (5) years in the last ten (10) of demonstrable experience with hand-on development of business, application, and technology architectures, using professional modelling tools (e.g. Sparx, ARIS, BizzDesign), in accordance with TOGAF or comparable architectural frameworks (e.g. Zachman, DoDAF, UAF).

+ One or more certifications in recognised Enterprise Architecture methodologies and frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF, UAF or similar along with proficiency in ArchiMate notation.

+ Demonstrable ability to present complex architectures in an easy understandable and accessible way to non-technical audiences, from end users to senior decision makers and approval boards.

DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement. The DEFTEC team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions. Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for. Our top priority is our employees, making DEFTEC an ideal workplace.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please get in touch with [email protected] if you require reasonable accommodations.

DEFTEC is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.

AAP/EEO Statement

DEFTEC Corp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, religious creed, disability (mental and physical) including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics ), genetic information, age, marital status, civil union status, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, denial of family and medical care leave, arrest record and/or any other characteristic(s) protected by federal, state or local law.

This policy applies to all terms of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment.

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