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Job Summary:
Akima's SUVI is seeking a highly experienced HOPEX Architect to lead and elevate their enterprise architecture platform. The role involves managing the HOPEX application, overseeing data integration, and ensuring the platform delivers maximum value while supporting modernization efforts and strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Serve as the primary technical owner and expert for the HOPEX platform, managing all aspects of its configuration, operations, maintenance and optimization to support enterprise architecture activities.
• Act as the main point of contact for the vendor (BizzDesign/MEGA), leading all communications regarding issue resolution, technical support, enhancement requests and license management.
• Develop and manage data integration between HOPEX and other authoritative systems, including ServiceNow, Entra ID, HR and Financial systems, to ensure a single, reliable source of truth for architectural data.
• Enforce EA data governance by creating and maintaining modeling standards, meta-model and meta-data practices, naming conventions, and governance (roles, access, and validation rules) within the architecture repository.
• Administer the day-to-day technical health of the platform, overseeing configuration changes, workflow development, dashboard creation, user access, and release/upgrade cycles.
• Collaborate with solution architects to ensure the consistency and quality of architectural models, verifying interdependencies and tracing requirements to maintain auditability.
• Coordinate with domain specific architects to manage strategic portfolios within HOPEX, including applications, technologies, data, and projects, to align IT investments with strategic objectives and support modernization roadmaps.
• Produce executive-level dashboards, reports, and scenario models to support strategic analysis, guide investment planning, and inform leadership decision-making on topics like application rationalization and risk mitigation.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Active Secret Clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of deep, hands-on experience as a HOPEX Architect with demonstrated expertise in platform administration, configuration, operations, maintenance, and optimization.
• Proven proficiency in applying enterprise architecture frameworks, specifically TOGAF and DoDAF, within a government or large enterprise environment.
Preferred:
• Master’s degree in relevant technical or engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in IT service delivery, with a strong preference for experience within DoD or other federal government agencies.
• Demonstrated experience integrating HOPEX with other enterprise platforms, particularly ServiceNow, CMDBs, and Entra ID.
• Relevant professional certifications, such as: MEGA HOPEX Practitioner Certification (or other official vendor training).
• TOGAF® 9 Certified (provided by the Open Group) and/or DODAF Certified (Federal Enterprise Architecture Certification (FEAC) Institute provides training that leads to DoDAF certification).
• ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and/or COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies).
• CompTIA Security+ (or another DoD 8570/8140 compliant certification).
Company:
Akima focuses on delivering services in the areas of logistics, IT, supply chain, systems engineering, construction and protective services. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in Herndon, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.