Enterprise Architect

Apogee is actively seeking a full-time Enterprise Architect II supporting US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) NC3 Enterprise Center (NEC) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) at Ft. Meade, MD.

The SE&I Division serves as the principal enterprise systems engineering, enterprise architecture, and technical authority for the NC3 Enterprise within the Department of Defense. As the lead NC3 Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) arm of the NC3 Enterprise Center, the division applies and remains up to date on systems engineering best practices and translates mission and operational requirements into appropriate technical specifications and solutions. SE&I also has the responsibility to apply established standards, and, when necessary, develop new standards, to ensure seamless interoperability across the NC3 enterprise. The SE&I is comprised of 3 branches:

• Enterprise Sustainment & Evolution
• Enterprise Performance & Capabilities
• Enterprise Mission Management

Responsibilities

• Provide Enterprise Architecture expertise to support data-driven enterprise decisions
• Supporting senior leaders and provide architectural recommendations to meet strategic objectives for future IT system integration
• Collaborating with Nuclear Command, Control, Communications (NC3) Enterprise Architecture teams to provide input to capture user requirements and use cases for improvement of the NC3 Digital Mission Engineering Environment (NDMEE)
• Producing and publishing baseline and incremental NC3 system of systems architectures to support and update information hosted in enterprise digital engineering tools
• Developing detailed architecture artifacts for subsets of the NC3 Enterprise, as needed - All View (AV), Operational View (OV), and System View (SV) artifacts
• Ingesting, re-formatting, and publishing architectures using validated and verified authoritative data to support and update information hosted in digital engineering tools

Qualifications

Minimum Experience

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen

Clearance: Must have and be able to maintain a Top Secret w/ SCI Eligibility

Education: HS Diploma

Years of Experience: 9+ years' relevant experience OR 5 years with Bachelors Degree

• Establishing system information requirements
• Designing architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces.
• Evaluating problems of workflows, organization, and planning and developing appropriate corrective action.

Preferred Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields: Engineering, Computer Science, or similar technical field

Years of Experience: 5+ years' relevant experience providing RF technical expertise, systems and design analysis, and implementation and integration via technical reports, presentations, briefings, training, as well as:

Additional Experience:

• Working-level proficiency with Models Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Modeling tools such as Cameo, Magic Draw, and SparxEA
• Experience with DOD communications architecture and systems
• Experience developing architecture artifacts using Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Systems Modeling Language (SysML), or Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
• Experience establishing system information requirements and designing architecture to support present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces

Additional Information
Location: Fort Meade, Onsite

Pay Range

USD $140,000.00 - USD $160,000.00 /Yr.