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Summary 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. Responsibilities 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 Conditions of Employment 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. Additional Information Job Interview Travel: Candidates from outside the Washington, D.C., area may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview. Salary Determination: The ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance. Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step. Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non-GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Director/ Human Resource Management. On occasional instances when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidate's personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to but not less than the employee's current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum rate (i.e., step 10) of the GS grade to which assigned. Relocation Expenses: For new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds. Reasonable Accommodations: The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodations Officer by classified email at dnireasonableaccommodationwma@cia.ic.gov, by unclassified email at DNIDRA@dni.gov, by telephone at 703-275-3900 or by FAX at 703-275-1217. Your request for reasonable accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION TO THE EEOD EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS EMAIL IS FOR REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS ONLY. The ODNI is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.