Develop Persuasive and Competitive Solutions for REI's Growth (Capture/Proposals)
Support decision-making for lead identification and qualification
Support captures across REI's offerings
Develop competitive solutions as part of approved captures (proposition, plans, people, products, past performance, pricing)
Convey REI's UVP and USP for the capture/opportunity to internal advocates/partner/customer
Support competitive proposals (contributing, writing, reviewing)
Support team challenges as needed
Work within the constraints of RFPs
Represent REI's complete suite of offerings and competencies in the market
Identify and Exploit New Technologies for New and Existing Clients (Technology, Process, Tools, Platforms, Standards)
Understand, contribute to, and maintain technology radars in relevant context (market, accounts, portfolios)
Experience in aligning strategy and technology to meet organizational business objectives.
Presents proposals to senior government officials or technical governance board in a clear and compelling way
Recommend pragmatic adoption strategies
Contribute to REI's Process Asset Library
Expertise in Application standardization, rationalization, and strategy decomposition.
Analyze available technologies and makes recommendations of technologies to use and how best to use them
Present advice inside and outside REI
Provide robust recommendations for engagements while identifying critical dependencies and gaps
Technical Leadership in Enterprise Agile Environment (Delivery/Value Creation)
Provide technical thought leadership for Agile development teams, ensuring successful software development projects and use case implementations
Champion the adoption of development best practices and identify. Adapt to different priorities and communication styles while maintaining high level of productivity
Strong execution skill to take ideas from inception to implementation, overseeing all stages of project lifecycle. Highlight the challenges, form alliance to overcome issue and achieve positive results
Spearhead proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives in various areas, driving innovation and identifying viable solutions
Foster a culture of excellence by actively directing and mentoring development teams, maximizing their potential
Experience in multi-vendor environment, presenting solutions with authority and accountability to large audience. Understand other vendors' strengths and weaknesses
Architect and design robust AWS deployment architectures, infrastructure selection, benchmarking, cost estimates ensuring scalability and efficiency
Deliver a comprehensive multi-year roadmap that outlines a clear path for continuous value creation
Collaborate with internal REI teams, customer teams and other vendor POCs
Develop Capacity and Build Talent for REI (People, CoPs, CoEs)
Support recruiting and retention of relevant talent
Run and/or participate in a COP or COE to share lessons learned/best practices
Coach, mentor, and develop talent including challenge teams
Build a network of key people carrying core and emerging competencies in the company
Provide expertise to customers/teams without becoming a key resource
Support Business Strategy for the Organization (Innovation, Priorities)
Develop solutions for jobs to be done
Incubate new competencies
Drive innovation backlog
Contribute to REI's strategy
Strengthen partnerships
Deliver to the approved budget for competencies
Work and Technical Experience:
Technical delivery experience within the Department of Defense in software development or analytic platform teams
Leadership experience in software development or analytic teams
Experience in end-to-end solution development lifecycle and agile methodologies
Expertise in one or more modern technologies to include cloud, mobile, platforms (BPM, Low-Code, or CRM), and databases
Experience in one or more technologies including Open Source, .NET, Java, Appian, JavaScript, AngularJS, Node JS
8+ years' experience in one or more architecture domains (e.g. business architecture, solutions architecture, application architecture, security architecture, data architecture)
Extensive experience in using major cloud platforms (AWS preferred) to build, design, architect, deploy cloud native applications.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (Master's degree is a plus)
Demonstrated continued learning through one or more technical certifications or related methods
12+ years of comprehensive experience in architecting sustainable enterprise scale architectures, cloud applications and solutions, enterprise systems modernization, cloud-native architectures, microservices architecture and containerized applications
5+ years experience within the Department of Defense
Self-motivated and focused on delivering outcomes
Able to meet proposal deadlines for the team
Able to write and present persuasively
Able to communicate with different stakeholders (both technical and business)
Able to work in a self-organized and cross-functional team
Able to iterate based on new information, peer reviews, and feedback
Effectively resolve conflict between team members and ensure everyone is aligned on the program goal
Secret Security Clearance preferred.
Education: Bachelor's degree in relevant field. A master's degree in business, public administration, public policy, or relevant field (preferred).