Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Maximus is a trusted federal partner supporting mission‑critical programs across national security, defense, and public service delivery. The Lead Operations Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and overseeing enterprise operational architectures supporting IT and OT services, ensuring alignment between operational execution, enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity controls, and governance processes across the contract.
Responsibilities
- Support enterprise architecture and governance objectives by ensuring IT and IT/OT systems, processes, and solutions align with strategies, standards, and requirements
- Develop, maintain, and keep current enterprise architecture artifacts, including Systems Engineering Life Cycle (SELC) documentation
- Ensure continuous accuracy and completeness of information maintained within the IT/OT Enterprise Architecture repository
- Provide architectural oversight for software and hardware updates by supporting submissions and reviews
- Provide leadership for the creation, maintenance, and ongoing support of Technical Configuration Diagrams (TCDs)
- Collaborate with operations, engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure enterprise architectures support reliable, secure, and mission aligned operations
- Apply knowledge of analytics and AI/ML methods to support improved operational monitoring, event correlation, trend analysis, and anomaly detection using agency approved tools and platforms
Skills
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust is required
- Must be a U.S. Citizen without dual citizenship
- Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise architecture activities for large‑scale IT and IT/OT environments
- Experience developing, maintaining, and updating enterprise architecture artifacts, including Systems Engineering Life Cycle (SELC) documentation
- Ability to maintain accurate and current system and application information within an enterprise architecture repository
- Experience providing architectural oversight for software and hardware changes, updates, or modernization efforts
- Ability to collaborate with operations, engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure architectural alignment with organizational standards and requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to document architecture and convey technical information to government stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Ten (10) years of experience supporting enterprise architecture, IT operations, or IT/OT environments
- Experience supporting enterprise architecture governance within federal environments
- Experience creating or maintaining Technical Configuration Diagrams (TCDs)
- Working knowledge of analytics or AI/ML concepts applied to IT operations, monitoring, or performance analysis
- Experience leveraging cloud‑native monitoring tools or ITOM/ITSM analytics platforms to enhance event correlation, trend analysis, or anomaly detection
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- A retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays and paid time off
- Short- and long-term incentives
- Program-specific awards
- Reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment
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