CompuGain is an Information Technology and Business Consulting firm providing project-based solutions, software solutions and professional staffing services. Senior Architect - NSAIJP00006878 Alexandria, Virginia 22314 6 Months Contract to Hire Job Specifications Provide enterprise architecture expertise and significant technology and domain expertise to translate the enterprise's strategy for legacy system upgrademigration to the desired future state including development of a transition plan Uses multi-disciplinary techniques, for example business process decomposition and redesign, information engineering, organizational redesign, change management, IT strategy and architecture, and performance measurement. Interacts at a variety of points within the customer organization and program governance processes to assist in implementation of the established transition plan Researches and advises on the analysis of alternatives in the determination of upgrade, refactor, or other solution recommendations. Ensures a focus on incorporation of high availability, fail-over capability, decoupling of highly connected systems, andor cloud-based solution implementations Conducts reviews and analyses of architectures to ensure compliance with transition plan and approach. Provides oversight for the development and transition plans Coordinates and collaborates with subject matter experts and other architect leads to ensure consistent application of customer mission objectives are met Tasks may include developing data models for optimal performance in databases designing data structures for data interchange developing metadata structures including dictionaries, taxonomies and ontologies. Leveraging domain expertise, develops comprehensive understanding of customer requirements and leads the development of a complete solution meeting all technical requirements and staffing needs for implementation of the transition plan. Provides subject matter expertise to meet customer technical, schedule and cost requirements. Required Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more experience Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience. Strong written and verbal skills Excellent communication and presentation skills Experience in performing Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) Desired Must have expertise in a minimum of two of the following skill groups o OS and Virtualization HP-UXAIXLinux, Windows, Amazon AMI, VMWare, RHEV o Database Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Datastax o Servers Cisco UCS, HP, Dell, IBM o PlatformMiddleware JBOSS, Websphere, Apache, Tomcat, SOLR o Monitoring Splunk, AppDynamics, TeamQuest, HP Openview o Programming Languages Group A COBOL and (Java or .NET or C++) o Programming Languages Group B Java, .NET, and C++ Experience with Database Consolidation andor Separation, Data Migration from one Storage Platform to another Experience with Certification Accreditation (CA) process, Plan of Action and Milestone (POAM) Experience with Cloud Migration, Implementation, AWS Services, FedRAMP, System Integration capability Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Rational ClearQuestClearCase, Rally, Subversion, Nexus, Jenkins, Sonar, Crystal Reports Experience with automation technologies to include Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Selenium, Jenkins, Nexus, and Docker Experience in one or more Agile methodologies Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban Thanks Best Regards, Spandana Recruiter CompuGain LLC 12901 Worldgate Drive, Suite 510, Herndon, VA 20170 703.454.0677 direct 703.956.7073 fax spandana.mahankalicompugain.com