Solution Architect

Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder. Will need to pass a client background check and this is an onsite position in the DC Metro Area.
The SOA O&M team will be responsible for the O&M activities of WMATA's SOA platform to include activities such as
System/Application Upgrades: for example, OS upgrades, COTS product upgrades, firmware upgrades, hardware upgrades, software end of life upgrades, security upgrades and firewall upgrades)
System Maintenance: for example, 24/7 system maintenance, 24/7 availability, OS patching, application patching, bug fixing, high availability maintenance, quarterly system data center switchover activities, periodic Disaster Recovery (DR) testing, Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning, tabletop exercises, minor application enhancements, system security compliance
System/Application Enhancements: for example, implementation of functional improvements, system integrations, new modules, implementing new applications, and maintaining and enhancing existing applications based on customer requests
Data Management Support: for example, keeping, utilization, processing, reporting, and analysis of data. This includes all aspects of data creation, data cleansing, metadata creation, data integration, data warehousing, Extract, transform and load (ETL), business intelligence (BI), data migration, and data enrichment.
The SOA team will primarily be responsible for addressing SOA platform backlog items, such as:

• Debug Uniform data issue and fix
• Asset Photo collector Authentication
• Smartrip Calculator update and automation
• WMATA Genesis Interfaces Project
• APRO changes to include all employees
• AVM support
• Origami support and process failed SMS incidents
• Origami support for failed Risk files
• MTPD - IA Pro PeopleSoft import issues
• GIS WO Service Notification: SOA Asset Query Service Echo issues
• SOA database upgrades

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Apply concepts of application architecture and service orientation to assist customer teams responsible for developing HA application requirements in specific functional areas;
• Coordinate work to prevent overlap and ensure alignment with WMATA Enterprise Architecture Framework, IT strategy, SDLC, strategic drivers, and standards;
• Prepare as-is and to-be application architecture artifacts including system connect diagrams application reference models, software requirements documents, interface descriptions, data

dictionaries, performance monitoring and logging specifications, high availability and scaling designs, DR concepts and designs, and application staging plans;

• Work with data and infrastructure architects and software program managers to ensure integrity, high availability, and scalability of application systems and plan within the context of the overall Enterprise Architecture.
• Guide the work of business systems/business case analysts and documentation specialists.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
Level 2 (Mid-level): four (4) to seven (7) years of relevant experience.
Minimum Requirements:

• Must have minimum experience (ex: 5 years)
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Communications, Finance, or in a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Exceptional Solution Architecture experience and familiarity with architecture patterns and design with emphasis on performance tuning, logging, and monitoring, Micro services and Cloud, high availability/scaling solutioning, and software development skills
• Strong analytical, verbal communication, and written communication skills
• Experience using MS Visio or other data or application visualization software to document
• application architecture
• Experience using MS Excel to perform basic software requirements documentation
• Familiarity with MS Word and MS PowerPoint
• Experience coordinating software requirements and working with development teams
• Proven ability to plan and deploy custom COTS and middleware application programs and process improvements
• Experience managing teams of programmers for the deployment of large, complex web and mobile applications
• Experience performing the application architecture function, from conception to deployment, of a large government multi-agency solution.

Solution Architects resumes should explicitly demonstrate work that has characteristics and technological items like:
Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Services Bus (ESB), Microservices, Enterprise integration platform and services, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Integration platform
Managed file transfer (MFT) batch file-based integration, Experience with Web Services, Messaging, APIs, Gateways, Extract, transform and load (ETL), Data Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Safety-critical and business-critical systems, Oracle Fusion Middleware (at least 12.2.1.3) Enterprise Integration Infrastructure Platform, Oracle Database (at least 12c), Oracle Golden Gate Replication (19.xc), Oracle Administration Console, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.8 server OS with upgrade to RHEL 8.0, Peoplesoft, Asset Management, Computer Associates (CA) Enterprise Monitoring and Management System, Experience with Maximo, Kronos, Hastus, Origami, ArcGIS, CA Service Desk, CA Clarity, ServiceNow, IBM Jazz, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, On the premises and cloud based systems integration
Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the transit industry
• Experience integrating legacy applications or data sources across a J2EE, MS.NET, and/or legacy mainframe or mini environment
• At least three (3) years of experience implementing architectural patterns and designs for web and mobile applications
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing HA and scaling solutions in a complex, multi-application architecture including Cloud
• Expertise in integrating complex, HA designs within a complex network environment supporting multiple web and mobile applications
• Experience planning and deploying a business process management solution and/or a workflow engine within a large, enterprise software deployment.