The Swift Group is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.

Swift is looking for an Enterprise Architect responsible for delivery of customer-focused software and IT projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. This position works closely with the Customer to help set the technical direction for the department. The ideal architect will advise on a scalable, hybrid cloud integration for the program and support ongoing innovation to the data environment. The role requires collaboration with software engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers, and other engineering groups. These groups provide support in the areas of data extraction, transformation, and load (ETL), data mapping, analytics, operations, databases, and maintenance of data and associated systems. This position is open in either Tysons Corner, VA or Warrenton, VA.

Responsibilities:

Primarily strategic role with selective hands-on involvement to maintain and validate architectural integrity.
While largely strategic, ensure architectural integrity through implementation, including review and oversight during delivery phases.
Lead development of long-term plans for scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud, on-prem, networking, storage, and compute domains.
Translate business objectives into actionable architectural initiatives understood across the organization.
Provide technical direction and oversight to infrastructure architects, engineers, and cross-functional project teams.
Promote innovation and continuous improvement in infrastructure design and operations.
Ensure seamless interoperability between legacy systems, cloud platforms, and application ecosystems.
Work closely with cybersecurity team to mitigate risks and enforce policies.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
10+ years’ or work experience in information systems engineering and/or administration building and evolving a heterogeneous Windows and Linux networked environment.
Experience should include implementation to maximize IT capabilities for data processing, systems, and user workflows.
Expertise in building cloud-compatible, service-oriented, highly-scalable, and web-enabled enterprise application independent of platform, language, framework
Experience operating and delivering in an Enterprise IT lifecycle, including System Security and Auditing, Data Processing and Analytics, Software development and methodologies, Technologies Transition
Experience building and managing IT solutions in the IC
Experience developing and managing IT solutions integrating cloud technologies
Creating new and evolving existing large-scale data warehouses using COTS, GOTS, and open-source technologies that meet compliance, availability, and recovery requirements
US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Experience:

Demonstrated experience transitioning legacy IT solutions in part or whole to cloud environment, engineering the solutions to take full advantage of the cloud platform
Prior experience engineering integrated technical solutions to process and improve the exploitation of disparately collected high volume (a subset includes streaming) data types to meet near real-time operational requirements
Familiarity with the technologies and processes to perform digital data and media forensics
Demonstrated experience transitioning new/modern technologies into existing systems to advance capabilities and more effectively meet user functional and/or strategic requirements.
Demonstrated experience delivering solutions using the technologies that comprise the Customer’s enterprise
Prior experience working with the Customer on similar programs, missions, or in the IC.

Do you know anyone for this position, or other positions open at The Swift Group? We offer a $5,000 bonus for any referral candidate we hire, paid out at the new hire’s 90-day mark.

We are not working with outside staffing agencies to fill this position, and we will not be accepting unsolicited resumes. All inquiries must go through the recruiting team.

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The Swift Group and Subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

Pay Range: $49,996.80 - $290,004.00

Pay ranges are a general guideline and not intended as a guaranteed and/or implied final compensation or salary for this job opening. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several different factors including, but not limited to: level of position, complexity of job responsibilities, geographic location, work experience, education, certifications, Federal Government contract labor categories, and contract wage rates.

At The Swift Group and Subsidiaries, you will receive comprehensive benefits including but not limited to: healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time off benefits.