Architect needed for Arlington VA, Federal client

Position: Technical Archhtect.

Location: Arlington , VA.

Duration:  2 years  to coninue.

Objective
The objective of this position is to provide technical architecture and leadership support services for the planning, design, development, and implementation of various agency development and infrastructure projects. The contractor shall provide guidance to the agency on all aspects required to deliver the projected system, maintenance enhancement or infrastructure service that supports the agency initiatives of improved quality, reliability and maintainability of the systems, improved examination process, reduced long-term maintenance costs as well as green initiatives. The contractor shall provide expertise that can interact with all levels of management, business owners, technologists, developers, operations, other technical leads and contractors and provide hands-on skills in the resolution of complex technical issues with developers/vendors/

infrastructure providers. The contractor will establish and document the technical goals, strategy, and deep-dive technical capability appropriate to mitigate unknowns in a complex interconnected project or system. The contractor will prepare and present to agency stakeholders, as needed, the various designs, plans, technical solutions, etc.

Skills
Contractor shall have experience in technical architecture and design of large, complex systems and have technical capability in some of the following:

·       SOA (Services-Oriented Technical architecture)

·       Enterprise Service Bus/Enterprise Technical architecture, Distributed computing, including client-server, 3-tier (CORBA, Java EE (J2EE) and Web-based)

·       Virtualized / cloud-based environments

·       Search Technologies

·       Software Agents (Intelligent Software Agents)

·       ETL

·       Unix (HP, AIX, Linux) , Windows

·       Apache/Tomcat/WebServers/JBOSS

·       Automated systems performance, load, stress, data interface, code coverage, and security evaluation tools

·       Web 2.0 enhanced user interfaces

·       SQL database implementations including Oracle DB, DOA, Stored Procedures, ORM

·       EJBs, POJOs

·       Service segmentation (data and business services), characterization, and definition

·       Web Services

·       Messaging (MQSeries, JMS, TIBCO)

·       Java, C# Struts (1 and 2), Spring, XML Technologies, UML, C++, JSP, ASP.NET, JUNIT and Eclipse.

·       Configuration Management/Source Control/Build Automation