Cornerstone Defense | Technically Innovative Solutions

Location: Ft. Meade, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3231

Title: Information Systems Architect
Location: Ft. Meade, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $175k – $195k
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Responsibilities:

· Architect custom solutions of program and enterprise or operational scope.

· Architect reusable solutions of program and enterprise or operational scope.

· Customize reusable solutions of program and enterprise or operational scope.

· Define and implement architectural governance at the program and enterprise or operational scope.

· Develop for client technically or operationally feasible long-term IT strategies and plans .

· Assess business impact of multiple technologies/strategies .

· Identify and address technical or operational risks .

· Provide review/input on project activities for large enterprise or global level projects .

Education and Experience Required:
Industry experience – minimum 10 to 15 years Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Knowledge and Skills:
Architecting:

· Ability to understand the customer's business problem, need, or opportunity and to design an IS solution that completely and correctly addresses the business problem, need, or opportunity without unnecessary enhancements.

· Ability to lead the architectural design, development, deployment, and technical quality of large enterprise or global solutions that span multiple technologies and disciplines.

· Be able to provide architectural direction for multiple medium to large sized projects concurrently in various stages of their lifecycle or a large project full time.

· Understands and applies one or more industry acknowledged architectural modeling methods and tools.

· Can validate/evaluate if an information systems or operational architecture meets business needs .

· Be able to evaluate the effect of external factors on designed solution .

Business Acumen:

· Develops Architecture Specification deliverables that map customer business requirements into complete information systems (technologies, processes and people) or operational solutions.

· Ability to apply knowledge of how the industry uses IT to address business challenges using, for example, technical standards and infrastructure, cross-industry trends that impact IT investment, industry-specific roadmaps, and IT enablers.

Technical:

· Broad IT industry knowledge with depth in multiple areas.

· Has pulse on future technology or operational trends as they relate to and support customer business directions (“trusted advisor” role).

· Broad knowledge of IT and business standards and best practices and how to apply them appropriately in solutions .

· Expert or Master level of knowledge of multiple technologies or IT disciplines .

· Able to design planning for accessibility, scalability, and availability.

Consulting:

· Ability to strategically consider all sides of an issue within the contexts of time, breadth, and range of options.

· Ability to prepare clear, concise, and persuasive communications for multiple audiences, including demonstrating effective writing and presentation skills, listening actively, and projecting a credible image.

· Ability to articulate technical or operational problems into understandable business terms appropriate for the audience.

Communication:

· Able to design and present high-impact messages to customer's Executive level management.

· Able to use a wide variety of presentation tools to persuasively communicate complex messages to multiple audience levels, including Executive level management.

· Ability to use prepared and create complete original materials to communicate with the customer. Communicates mostly strategic information and some Tactical information.

· Has Excellent speaking and writing skills with proven capability to represent the company at external customer and industry events.

Benefits Overview:
Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *

Location: Ft. Meade, Maryland
Type: Contract
Job #3230

Title: Senior Red Hat Consultant
Location: Ft. Meade, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Compensation Range: $180k – $200k
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Responsibilities:
Usually responsible for providing a detailed technical design for enterprise solutions.
Is usually the Principal Consultant who analyzes and develops enterprise technology solutions.
Provides the technical direction required to resolve complex issues to ensure the on-time delivery of solutions that meet customer expectations. May need to develop new methods to apply to situations.
Provides advanced technical consulting and advice to proposal efforts, solution design.
Provides consulting advice to customer senior IT leadership and sets strategic direction for customers based on the company's solutions and products.
Works with peers outside immediate organization to define and characterize complex technology or process problems and/or develops new solutions, yet works independently to drive technical problems to a solution.

Education and Experience Required:
12+ years of professional experience and a Master of Arts/Science or equivalent degree in computer science or related area of study; without a Masters degree, three additional years of relevant professional experience (15+ years in total).

Knowledge and Skills:
Demonstrates ability to develop solutions that can be used at multiple customer sites to enhance the availability, performance, maintainability and agility of their enterprise.
Develops reusable solutions and workarounds that are innovative and demonstrate a deep technical knowledge of the affected products, processes, and the customer environment.
Breadth of knowledge covers additional business units, third parties, competitors, and business drivers.
Recognized as an advanced subject matter expert of IT products, applied technologies and processes, combining vendor interoperability knowledge pertaining to complex IT infrastructures. May define interoperability issues between vendors' products and is a recognized expert in one or more technologies across the region. Holds a vendor or industry certification in more than one discipline area. Regularly represents business at industry recognized technical events.
Has performed troubleshooting across a number of significant multi-vendor products.
Has demonstrated innovation and ability to communicate new offerings across multiple business units. Has led a cross functional team in the delivery of multiple solutions across multiple technologies.
Ability to operate and present at all levels, and in public forums, to facilitate business discussions, and controls and leads those discussions.
Ability to relate risks and challenges with other client efforts.
Ability to develop detailed project plans and work breakdown structures. Ability to develop Architecture Specification deliverables that map customer business requirements to technologies.