Agile Technical Architect

A direct St. Paul, MN Client seeks four Architects to work as part of a team to insure the successful build and implementation of a new system. Four architects are needed to create new Reference Architecture that will be used as a foundation for a secure, reliable, maintainable, and extensible distributed system.
START DATE: OCT 2015 END DATE: SEPT 2017 WITH EXTENSION.

REQUIRED SKILLS (TO BE SCORED AS PASS/FAIL)
Candidates must meet all required skills, only then will candidates be evaluated and scored.
B.A./B.S. degree in related field;
10 years as a technical architect for large enterprises (Fortune 100 or a state/federal public agency) and/or large projects (greater than $2 million dollars per project).
10 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
Unified Modeling Language (UML) for information and data modelling, at system and enterprise settings, including but not limited to:
ü Class Diagrams
ü State Transition Diagrams
ü Activity Diagrams
ü Sequence Diagrams
Implementation of information and data quality management processes, data stewardship, enterprise metadata management and related programs
Synchronous and asynchronous system integration approaches, eg, message queues, Publish/Subscribe, Request/Response, etc.
Relational database design and implementation of complex SQL-based programs in transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) environments
3 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
Migration and versioning approaches
Enterprise scale integration designs and architecture with a variety of interface partners (public and private sector) and methods (REST, Enterprise Service Bus, Secure FTP, etc.).
Architectural Design and/or subject expert experience in a public sector program or project.
Architectural Experience with a large scale (greater than $2 million dollars) Microsoft custom software development program.
Accessibility coding principals
Recoverability architecture

DESIRED SKILLS
Experience developing mobile apps in iOS, Android, Microsoft
Demonstrated experience with developing accessible user interfaces that comply with WCAG 2.0
Experience with secure coding principals
Agile experience as a Technical Architect in a large (greater than 20 individuals or 4 teams, multi-team environment Process

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS OPPORTUNITY, PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING REQUIRED MATERIALS TO(SEE BELOW)

- Provide narrative, including companies and contacts where the resource has demonstrated the required and desired skills. If pass/fail requirements are not met, the proposal will not receive further consideration. It will not be scored. Provide specific details that highlight the resource's skills. The narrative may be in a Matrix or other form that allows the reader to easily find required and desired skills.
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