SE5 – Enterprise Architecture

Work Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Job Description:

Planet Works is a small, privately owned contracting company looking for quality candidates to serve as a Systems Engineer Level 5 in support of the Enterprise Architecture, Fort Meade, Maryland. The successful candidate will develop architectural artifacts to document both as is and to be architectures. Interact with various service providers, program managers, technical development staff, and other organizational system and data architects independently to generate high-quality, UAF compliant artifacts in a new organization that is in the process of standing up. Perform with little or no guidance, interacting with teammates as required, to capture and document the enterprise system, and to demonstrate the impacts of suggested changes to the cybersecurity data architecture as well as highlighting changes and impacts to engineering requirements, capabilities and functions. Propose changes necessary to capture and access data from across the organization’s enterprise that enable corporate acquisition and decision-making processes, with emphasis on operational decisions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top-Secret clearance with Polygraph, candidates without this will not be considered.
• Fifteen (15) years of systems engineering experience is required
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related discipline plus at least 15 years of systems engineering experience. A Master’s degree or PhD may be substituted for two years of experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 19 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable.
• Demonstrated and documented recent significant evidence of DoDAF and/or UAF based architecture artifacts.
• Recent architectural tool use. CAMEO preferred but System Architect or CORE will be considered.
• Demonstrated enterprise architecture development experience, particularly in the areas of data architecting and data engineering. Experience developing architectural artifacts from approved requirements.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including demonstrated ability to comfortably interact with all levels of organization management while operating in a dynamic environment with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and track multiple activities in a fast-paced environment.
• Key words: CAMEO, Enterprise+Architecture, Data+Architect, UAF, DoDAF

Desired Qualifications:

• Recent experience supporting program roll-out messaging and communications on the importance of the architecture product line.
• Cyber domain experience.
• Ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with reference architecture design and mapping.
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certification.

Benefits:

• 12% 401K regardless of what you contribute, vested immediately
• 100% fully covered health, dental and vision insurance
• 30 days of PTO per year to be used however you want
• Frequent company sponsored events
• $5250 (Max allowed by IRS) per year for training and education
• Annual bonuses and spot awards throughout the year
• Referral bonuses up to $5,000.