Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted.  

The Joint, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Interagency Division (JOID) provides expert support services to a range of customers spanning across the Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and international markets. JOID provides a diverse portfolio of analytical and programmatic capabilities to help our customers make informed decisions on their most challenging issues.

SPA's NATO Allied Command Transformation Group within JOID provides capability development, portfolio management, program management, quality management, cost estimation analysis, standardization, reporting, software solutions and information management, and capability management support. We also provide an improved capability requirements capture process, including the generation, documentation and tracing of user requirements, with appropriate technical scrutiny, over the entire lifecycle of the requirements from capability definition through capability realization and capability usage. 

SPA has an upcoming need for an Enterprise Architect to provide contracting services to NATO onsite in Norfolk, VA.

The successful candidate will develop architectural models to align ongoing and future programs and initiatives, delivering the Digital Transformation Implementation Strategy and larger capability development function of HQ SACT.

• Develop Capability Architectures in support of the different modernization and transformation programs and part of the Business and Information Enterprise Architecture.
• Provide the high-level architectural overviews, dashboards, and heat maps to support gap/overlap analysis and coherence between multiple programs and initiatives; provide reusable architectural building blocks shared across multiple capability architectures, and support multiple capability architecture teams within HQ SACT with common processes, templates, guidelines, tools, and reports.
• Conduct a critical analysis and review of existing and under-development enterprise and capability architectures in order to gain big picture perspective of architecture maturity across multiple projects. 
• Develop and maintain an overarching strategic Enterprise Architecture overview linking existing program capability architectures. 
• Support architectural coherence of multiple Capability Programs and data integration and advanced Business Intelligence reporting based on architectural data, requirements, and program data and creation of reports, dashboards, and heatmaps on their connections, overlaps, and gaps. 
• Present architectural information in various formats appropriate for non-technical stakeholders and leadership. 
• Provide architectural guidance to Capability Architects, Program Directors, and Requirements Managers. 
• Support program and project planning activities to ensure they take into account the architectural dependencies, and support Capability Architects to ensure consistency of design and adherence to appropriate architectural standards and the Enterprise Architecture. 
• Develop, configure, and maintain templates, guides, HOWTO documents, and reports for Enterprise Architecture and Capability Architectures.
• Follow ArchiMate and NATO Architectural Framework 3 (NAF3) guidelines and best practices. 
• Configure, integrate, and maintain architectural tools and shared repositories.
• Maintain a library of reusable Architectural Building Blocks (e.g., taxonomies, reference architectures) to be used across enterprise and capability architectures.

Required:

• Active National and/or NATO Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field related to Enterprise Architecture (e.g., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Sciences and Technology, Mathematics, Business Administration, Systems Engineering, etc); professional experience in Enterprise Architecture (minimum of 5 years) will be accepted in lieu of degree in a relevant field
• Demonstrable experience (at least 5 years in the last 10) as lead/key contributor in the development of enterprise or solution architectures for complex systems and environments
• Demonstrable recent experience in use of and training or certification in Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, DODAF, NAF4, or similar
• Demonstrable recent experience applying ArchiMate notation for architecture modeling
• Demonstrable experience in coordinating architectural work across multiple teams and projects
• Demonstrable experience working with and configuring professional collaborative architecture tools (e.g. Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris) and work with shared architecture repositories
• Demonstrable experience in presenting architectural information to non-technical audience and leadership
• Demonstrable experience in developing and applying architectural quality standards, modeling guides, and templates
• Knowledge of the software products to support the representation of the architectures using web reporting, Data Science, and Business Intelligence techniques and tools (e.g. PowerBI, Semantic Wikis, ARCHI, etc.)
• Experience working for NATO or similar military or international structure (i.e. International Organization or national MoD)
• National of one of the 32 NATO countries