Business Architect / Analyst Sr - Ts/Sci

Business Architect / Analyst - TIB

TULK is a leading boutique consulting firm providing technology and management consulting services to the US Federal Government. Our expert team assists Defense and National Security clients in acquiring, designing, managing, and developing advanced technology systems and business practices to advance their missions. We offer tailored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, long and short-term disability, flexible work schedules, cash bonuses, access to technology, tuition reimbursement, 401k, and more.

We are looking for applicants with a broad range of skills and interests to join our team. At TULK, we carefully match our employees with assignments that best fit their unique skill sets and career goals. If you're interested in the position below, we encourage you to apply and take the next step in your career with TULK.

Overall Assignment Description of the Senior Business Architect

Senior Business Architects define the mission or business problem or opportunity evaluating Strategic Guidance documents and User CONOPS; characterize the solution space by identifying work and information flows and identify the mission need, articulate the mission problem and develop recommended business processes to develop the solution approach and impact the capability roadmap and planning. They create and communicate Business Architecture artifacts to include identifying mission stakeholders, problem/opportunity statements, Business/Mission alternative analysis, information needs, workflows, mission threads, business requirements, preliminary validation criteria, Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) needs, MOE data, business traceability, preliminary lifecycle concepts and document in business analyst records.

Duties of the Senior Business Architect

• Develops, maintains, and documents the business perspectives within the Corporate Enterprise Architecture ensuring alignment to NGA’s Strategy and CONOPs.
• Develops the business analysis strategy to include defining Problem/Opportunity, major stakeholders, and Preliminary lifecycle concept.
• Creates the Business Architecture information and artifacts (in accordance with the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the Intelligence Community’s (IC) Program Architecture Guidance (PAG).
• Conducts Business Architecture analysis to include providing the evaluation of alternatives, identifying business requirements, and proposing validation criteria, Preliminary MOE needs, MOE data and functional traceability.
• Derivation, definition, and documentation of the right Resource, Functional, and Operational Capabilities and associated activities and services about NGA Corporate, along with systems analysis necessary to define, document, and baseline the current NGA CEA;
• Planning, design, and systems engineering work necessary to build and portray the future state NGA CEA;
• Development of conceptual, logical and physical architecture and technical roadmaps defining the time-phased schedule for the path of transition or transformation of systems and services from the baselined current state to the future state CEA; and program, segment and project-based solution- level architectures consistent with the enterprise-level architecture.

Required Skills and Experience of the Senior Business Architect

• Top Secret / SCI (TS/SCI) Security Clearance
• 12+ years Relevant Experience
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in business, operations research or engineering, or equivalent Senior- level work experience as a Business Architect.
• Senior level experience in Business Architecture, business process re-engineering, and business modeling with systems engineering.
• Senior level working experience in government or industry with Architecture tools.
• Senior level working experience in the IC and DoD Business Transformation efforts and Business Enterprise Architecture
• Demonstrated experience with the WhiteHouse, OMB, or GSA’s Shared Services initiative called Federal Integrated Business Framework to include the DoD and the IC’s End-to-End Business Processes such as Hire-to-Retire, Procure-to-Pay, Acquire-to-Retire, and Budget-to-Report
• Demonstrated experience with the Defense Acquisition, the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development, and the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution processes
• Demonstrated experience in conducting the DoD standard for Capability-Based Assessment employing strong critical and analytical skills

Desired Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience with business process structures, optimization, integration, and modeling.
• Demonstrated experience with DoDAF, IC PAG, IC JARM, UPDM, SYSML or UAF.
• Demonstrated experience with Federal Integrated Business Framework (FIBF)