Enterprise Architect

Savan is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect (CPIC, Portfolio & Financial Management Lead) to support a federal client’s enterprise IT governance, Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE), IT portfolio management, enterprise architecture, and IT financial-management activities.

The Enterprise Architect will serve as a senior advisor and technical-functional lead responsible for aligning business strategy, mission needs, enterprise architecture, IT investments, budget formulation and execution, acquisition planning, and portfolio performance. This individual will help the Government evaluate and optimize current and planned IT investments; develop actionable recommendations for senior leaders; improve the quality and consistency of portfolio, architecture, cost, schedule, performance, and risk data;

and ensure investments are aligned to agency priorities, enterprise standards, and applicable federal policy.

The ideal candidate brings deep federal experience in CPIC, PPBE, IT investment management, enterprise architecture, portfolio governance, IT financial management, and executive-level decision support. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable facilitating governance discussions, analyzing complex investment and financial data, developing architecture-informed portfolio recommendations, and preparing concise, executive-ready briefings and documentation.

• Lead and support CPIC, IT portfolio management, IT investment management, and IT financial-management activities for a federal CIO/OCIO, enterprise architecture office, or comparable organization.
• Advise Government stakeholders on the alignment of mission strategy, business capabilities, enterprise architecture, technology roadmaps, IT investments, budget priorities, and acquisition strategies.
• Support the full IT investment lifecycle, including investment identification, business-case development, alternatives analysis, selection, control, evaluation, modernization planning, and retirement or consolidation decisions.
• Apply enterprise architecture principles and frameworks to assess the business, data, application, technology, security, and integration impacts of current and planned IT investments.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, investment roadmaps, capability maps, transition plans, technical assessments, current-state and target-state analyses, and portfolio rationalization recommendations.
• Lead analysis of IT investment cost, schedule, performance, risk, technical health, mission alignment, lifecycle status, dependencies, and total cost of ownership.
• Support PPBE activities, including budget formulation, programming, execution monitoring, spend-plan development, variance analysis, funding prioritization, and fiscal-year planning.
• Analyze IT budget and financial-management data to identify funding risks, execution issues, duplication, inefficiencies, potential cost savings, modernization opportunities, and investment tradeoffs.
• Support development, review, and validation of IT investment business cases, budget exhibits, portfolio submissions, integrated data calls, and other required federal reporting artifacts.
• Support the preparation and quality review of OMB-related reporting, including applicable IT portfolio, budget, performance, and investment-management submissions.
• Provide expertise on FITARA, CPIC policy, federal IT investment-management practices, enterprise architecture guidance, technology-business-management concepts, and other applicable federal CIO/OCIO requirements.
• Facilitate or support IT governance boards, architecture review boards, investment review boards, portfolio reviews, budget reviews,…