SENIOR INFASTRUCTURE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

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Norfolk, VA, USA | Full Time

SENIOR INFASTRUCTURE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products.

We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements.

Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.



POSITION OVERVIEW

Infrastructure Enterprise Architect responsible for analyzing, modeling, and designing infrastructure capability architectures at the enterprise, capability, and solution levels.

This role focuses on identifying gaps, overlaps, and dependencies across key NATO infrastructure domains such as air basing, maritime and land facilities, fuel systems, ammunition depots, and command structure buildings.

Central to the position is the facilitation of a unified infrastructure ontology using the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF), enabling the integration of operational plans with infrastructure programs to support logical project structuring and alignment with regional plans.

The architect supports capability requirement elicitation and traceability across all levels, ensuring consistency and clarity in architectural artifacts, while contributing to P3M planning, version control, and DOTMLPFI synchronization.

The role also includes supporting the development of concepts of operation, courses of action, and coordinating enterprise-level infrastructure capability development within NATO's strategic objectives.



JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:


+ Perform analysis of existing NATO Infrastructure capability architectures and their modelling at enterprise, capability and solution level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programmes.

(Examples of Infrastructure (Air Basing, Maritime Facilities, Land Facilities, Ammunition Facilities, Fuel Facilities and Pipelines, NATO Command Structure Buildings.



+ Facilitate singular view of Infrastructure ontology in accordance with NATO Architecture Framework (NAF).

[A logical macro depiction of Infrastructure capabilities in which program directors can drill down to lowest levels to ensure there are no duplications or deficiencies in capabilities and ensure maximum integration and operational effects of infrastructure capabilities to support the Regional Plans] Critical requirement to integrate the operational plans and multiple infrastructure programs with a logical depiction, to be able to create logical project structures.



+ Perform modelling, architecture and design activities of new and enhanced capabilities, down to infrastructure solution level, to ensure completeness, consistency and clarity of requirements related work.



+ Produce relevant NAF perspectives in support to capability design and requirement definition as well as to enterprise and portfolio management.



+ Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of capability requirements and identification of dependencies from other capabilities and/or regulatory requirements.



+ Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation and traceability of higher and lower-level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.).



+ Support P3M planning activities to ensure that the dependencies between architecture and the other elements of the plans are understood and taken into consideration.



+ Maintain the architectural artefacts in their repositories ensuring version and configuration control.



+ Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.

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+ Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating capability development.



+ Organise and participate to workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.



+ Identify Lessons and contribute to their Learning within the organization.



+ Support the coordination of architecture related products with Management and Governance.



+ Support the branch and travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO's boundaries for up to 30 days per year.



+ Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labour category.




Required Qualifications:


+ At least five (5) years in the last ten (10) of demonstrable experience with hand on development of business, application, and technology architectures, using professional modelling tools (e.g. Sparx, ARIS, BizzDesign), in accordance with TOGAF or comparable architectural frameworks (e.g. Zachman, DoDAF, UAF).



+ One or more certifications in recognised Enterprise Architecture methodologies and frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF, UAF or similar along with proficiency in ArchiMate notation.



+ Demonstrable ability to present complex architectures in an easy understandable and accessible way to non-technical audiences, from end users to senior decision makers and approval boards.



+ Demonstrable recent (i.e. in the last ten years) experience with working on programmes having significant focus on physical infrastructure and facilities (e.g. airports, fuel supply infrastructure, transport and logistics).




DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement.

The DEFTEC team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions.

Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for.

Our top priority is our employees, making DEFTEC an ideal workplace.



Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Please get in touch with HR@deftec.com if you require reasonable accommodations.



DEFTEC is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.



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Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

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