Dynamo Technologies is hiring a
Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Dynamo Technologies, LLC as a Solutions Architect to support the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Enterprise Architecture Support contract. The successful candidate will develop modernization plans and technical roadmaps, drive development teams, and promote uniform data management practices.

Requirements

• Experience collaborating with US Government Agencies or state or local governments to develop IT service program maturity in accordance with Federal IT mandates and best practices
• Experience in software architecture and development of enterprise solutions leveraging industry leading platforms and technologies
• Ability to analyze Reference Models to assess technical feasibility of the implementation
• Ability to translate strategic goals for systems and applications into actionable steps and milestones
• Ability to identify potential risks for the implementation of reference models and determine corresponding mitigation strategies
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, such as Azure or AWS
• Ability to provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces
• Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience
• Excellent verbal and communication skills with the demonstrative ability to work with all levels within the organization
• Possess excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Experience translating functional designs into technical solutions and implementing software enhancements that introduced new architecture modules, and/or triggered major re-engineering
• Experience developing and documenting architecture framework capabilities for use by development teams
• Experience working in Agile development environment
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• 5 or more years of IT Leadership experience preferably as an Enterprise Architect, Software Architect, Solution Architect, Principal/Senior Engineer (Lead Developer), or similar role

Responsibilities

• Develop modernization plans and technical roadmaps
• Support the DRM, data models, and Data Management Roadmap
• Develop monthly status reports, project plans, prepare presentations as necessary and ensure overall quality of the project
• Drive development teams and serve as an expert advisor to overcome development challenges
• Promote an understanding of the data, how to access it, and how to leverage it to support performance results, and enable information sharing and reuse via the standard description and discovery of common data
• Promote the uniform data management practices
• Facilitate discovery and exchange of core information across organizational boundaries
• Provide architecture and tech lead support
• Support business development and other Dynamo Technologies' strategic initiatives
• Support and apply USDA security policy and architecture to reduce vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and ensure security of systems