Senior Enterprise Architect at Native American Industrial Solutions, LLC (NAIS)
Worldwide
<p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">NAIS is seeking <strong>an Enterprise Architect</strong> to provide operations and maintenance services, as well as design and development support services, on a contract supporting a government agency. This will be a full-time salaried position with compensation based on your professional experience and overall aptitude </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">Job Description: </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Enterprise Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, IT strategy, modern technologies, and agile development processes to help maintain, shape, and modernize critical business systems. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">You will play a pivotal role in aligning IT infrastructure and software development processes with business goals, ensuring scalable and sustainable solutions that meet current and future needs</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">Key Responsibilities:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Independently perform a variety of system design and engineering tasks that are broad in nature, involving the design and implementation of major enterprise systems development and integration. </span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Develop and maintain an enterprise architecture blueprint that aligns IT strategy with business objectives.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more specific areas of computer system design and networking.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Evaluate and recommend optimum solutions balancing specific project needs with current and future business needs and constraints.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Identify areas for improvement within the IT infrastructure, application landscape, and architecture processes.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ensure adherence to architecture standards, industry best practices, and security protocols</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Provide leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring architectural integrity across all technology projects.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Use scientific and engineering logic to independently identify conceptual or theoretical solutions to technology systems hardware or software design and operation challenges.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">Minimum Qualifications:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px; list-style-type: circle;"> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, or related field.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Proven experience (10+ years) as an Enterprise Architect or in a similar senior IT leadership role.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">In-depth knowledge of business process design, system integration, and data architecture.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Excellent communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Extensive experience in designing and engineering major enterprise systems, including system integration and supporting infrastructures.</span></li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Experience with:</span> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" type="circle"> <li><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cloud & Execution Environments </span></strong> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" type="square"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AWS Cloud Regions - Understanding of regional deployment boundaries, data residency, and service availability.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AWS Serverless & PaaS Services - Day to day operation of managed components including AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon MSK/Kafka, and Amazon RDS PostgreSQL.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Network & Security Perimeters - Managing custom VPCs, private/public subnets, NAT Gateways, and port isolation. </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>Monitoring, observability and logging tools</strong> </span> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" type="square"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amazon CloudWatch - Log groups, metric filters, alarm thresholds and custom operational dashboards.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sumo Logic - Familiarity with SIEM/log forwarding via AWS Kinesis Firehose, or S3 data event trails.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AWS CloudTrail & AWS Config -API call histories, monitoring and auditing object access</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>Security, Compliance & Access Management </strong> </span> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" type="square"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AWS IAM - Review and auding least-privilege inline JSON policies, resource ARNs and execution role permissions. </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AWS Secrets Manager & KMS - Manages secure parameter storage, automated password rotations, and customer managed cryptographic keys. </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Deployment Tools </strong> </span> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" type="square"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Terraform - Read, review and adjust existing .tf configuration modules for infrastructure maintenance.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Variable files - Utilizes environment isolation strategies to manage configuration states. </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AWS CLI & Powershell - Executes local orchestration scripts, packages Linux-compatible Lambda layers, and interacts with resources via command-line.</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>File Transfers, Integration & Alerting applications</strong> </span> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;" type="square"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AWS Transfer Family - Maintains SFTP servers and web portals utilized by external stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amazon SNS (simple notification service) - Oversees topic-based message dispatching and email templates. </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Git & Version Control Clients - Git CLI (Gitlab), VS Code source control. Pull, commit, track changes from repository branches. </span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent are a plus.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">The Team</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">NAIS is an Information Technology (IT) and professional services firm specializing in network design and management, cyber security and risk management services, software development, design, procurement, and integration. We offer employees a broad range of benefits and are dedicated to building a diverse culture where employees are valued for their contributions and perspectives. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others, enabling them to grow and learn. At NAIS, we are committed to your professional development and will provide you with the support and resources you need to succeed. Learn more about what working for NAIS could mean for you.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. At NAIS, we believe that diversity and inclusion are not just words, but the foundation of our success. We value the unique perspectives and experiences that each individual brings to our team.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #0e101a;">Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required for the specified role.</span></p>
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