IT SME

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Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.

Markon is seeking a Information Technology Subject Matter Expert with deep expertise in Cloud technologies, Enterprise Architecture, and associated platforms and tools to support an Intelligence Community customer. This is a funded position supporting programs of national importance.

The IT SME will serve as a trusted technical advisor to the Government Program Manager, providing authoritative guidance on complex technical questions, architecture decisions, and platform transitions across a portfolio of systems. This position is hands-on, strategic, and advisory in nature and is not a Program Manager position.

 

 

• Provide technical expertise to create, update, maintain, and visualize software and enterprise architectures, including data and services.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture artifacts and Concept of Operations (CONOPs).
• Serve as a technical liaison for system architecture matters related to performance, availability, redundancy, data protection, and information security.
• Collaborate with customers to evaluate mission drivers, identify challenges, develop mitigation strategies, assess applications and services, and create transition plans and business cases for Cloud and other initiatives.
• Troubleshoot and resolve IT and architecture issues as they arise.
• Respond to user and customer technical requests and inquiries.
• Drive adoption of best practices in software development, testing, validation, and system integration.
• Provide expert technical analysis and guidance for highly complex systems, applications, and operational environments.
• Assist the customer with technical oversight of service providers and vendors supporting the portfolio.
• Provide technical leadership integrating IT requirements, system design, and enabling technologies.
• Interface with Government stakeholders on systems engineering and IT technical issues, conflicts, and tradeoffs.
• Support and facilitate metrics development and reporting across the Intelligence Community.

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
• Bachelor’s degree plus 14+ years of relevant experience, OR Master’s degree plus 12+ years, OR PhD or JD plus 9+ years of experience.
• 3–5 years of experience working within the IC.
• 3+ years of hands-on technical experience supporting Cloud and Enterprise Architecture initiatives.
• Experience building, operating, and maintaining IT systems in a national security environment.
• Experience managing IT vendors and software teams, holding them accountable for performance and delivery.
• Background in software development.
• Experience supporting IT governance processes.
• Broad technical knowledge enabling the ability to provide sound, actionable advice to a Government PM across multiple technical domains.
• Agile mindset, bias toward action, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Confidence and credibility to challenge technical assumptions and decisions in discussions with senior technical personnel.

USD $200,000.00 - USD $225,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.