The Intelligence Community (IC) Chief Information Office (CIO) is responsible for advancing the Intelligence Community's mission by driving secure collaboration, integration, and information sharing; identifying and addressing information enterprise risks; and providing strategic leadership and oversight of the IC's enterprise architecture and enterprise information technology.

Duties

The Architecture Compliance Specialist (ACS) will support assessment of the Intelligence Community's (IC) compliance with the IC's information technology (IT) architecture in support of the IC information environment (IE). Compliance efforts will address IC element adherence to the architecture, and measure the architecture's effectiveness of enabling the IC's future-state mission capabilities and delivery of an integrated, secure, resilient, and reliable information technology across the IC. Areas of focus will include compliance with IT architecture that enable an integrated multiple cloud environment, mutually supportive cybersecurity solutions, including the adoption of zero trust principles, and cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence. The ACS will support the Chief, Architecture Compliance Division's leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks for the evolving IC IT compliance framework. The ACS will develop standards, guidelines, and metrices for the IC's evolving IT architecture. The Architecture and Integration Group (AIG) plans, organizes, coordinates, directs, and implements EA, systems engineering, and compliance and integration practices to foster a secure, interoperable, accessible, and effective IC IE. Through understanding and interpretation of complex IT investments, AIG helps stakeholders identify current and future enterprise IT needs, detect critical gaps to inform future planning, and ensure IC IT architecture compliance. In addition, AIG helps drive information sharing with international partners. Major Duties and Responsibilities: Lead development, evolution, and maturity of governance, assurance, and standards associated with ensuring IC projects and activities comply with the IC IT architecture. Analyze IC IT architecture compliance to measure the IC IE architecture's effectiveness for advancing the intelligence mission. Identify the organizational impact (e.g., on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of IC IT architecture compliance upon IC elements. Collaborate with cross-functional subject matter experts (SME) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the IC to guide technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation of IC IT architecture compliance. Provide subject matter expertise to IC analysis of mission needs to derive the future-state of the IC's IT architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the architecture. Provide architecture compliance expertise for the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement. Collaborate with architecture compliance SMEs and IC peers to develop and implement improved architecture compliance methodologies to new mission capabilities and operating models. Identify and advocate for innovative solutions that will enable continued maturity of the IC IT architecture compliance framework. Lead project teams to ensure project is completed on time, effectively apply team building and coaching techniques, and exchange project or technical information with team members and contractors at formal and informal meetings.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.

Qualifications

Mandatory Requirements: Superior leadership skills. Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills in a technical context. Expert understanding of technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies. Expert knowledge of IT standards and controls. Expert understanding of information principles and processes. Expert understanding of network and security architecture. Expert academic background/professional knowledge of theories, concepts, principles, and methodologies of an engineering or technology architectural discipline sufficient to prepare, provide, and evaluate conventional plans, designs, design specifications, and related documentation. Expert program management, analytic, and critical thinking skills, including the ability to conduct program and management assessments, identify needs and requirements, and develop non-linear process improvement recommendations for implementation across the Intelligence Community. Superior facilitation and negotiation skills, including the ability to prepare unbiased system assessments, recommendations, and plans when analytic views differ among organizations. Superior oral and written communication skills, including an expert ability to lead, plan, and direct major acquisition programs and communicate effectively with people at all levels and from different organization cultures. Expert organizational and interpersonal skills and a superior ability to plan and lead negotiations, consensus building, and effective teams/collaborative environments. Superior ability to lead the development of consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; proven ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements. 5 years of experience measuring a design and/or architecture's effectiveness in enabling delivery of capabilities. 5 years of experience integrating users feedback into product development lifecycle. 5 years of experience cleaning and transforming data sets.

Education

Bachelor's degree.

Contacts

• Address IC ARCHITECTURE AND INTEGRATION GROUP Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]