ARA is looking for a Business Process Architect for an exciting opportunity leading state-of-the-art solutions for an intelligence community mission system. We are searching for a creative, visionary problem solver who has a passion for delivering state-of-the-art solutions. In this role, you will deliver quality production solutions that enable solid ML - Ops practices to significantly expand customer capabilities. This position is located in our Chantilly, VA office; however, a hybrid working ... more details
ARA is looking for a Business Process Architect for an exciting opportunity leading state-of-the-art solutions for an intelligence community mission system. We are searching for a creative, visionary problem solver who has a passion for delivering state-of-the-art solutions. In this role, you will deliver quality production solutions that enable solid MLOps practices to significantly expand customer capabilities.
This position is located in our Chantilly, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.
Your future duties and responsibilities as the Business Process Architect:
- Research and analyze data to inform collection of business process needs through engagements with systems users and managers
- Analyze business process needs and refine understanding of requirements with systems users and managers
- Use Business Processing Modeling and Notation (BPMN) standards to diagram business processes and workflows
- Document current processes, associated diagrams, and analytic findings to inform requirements for new process designs
- Develop a redesigned BPMN concept model and map current processes to redesigned concept model designing improved ones
- Lead workshops with cross-functional engineering and product development teams to design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines to support various business needs
- Analyze complex datasets, detect trends and patterns, develop conclusions, and provide recommendations to improve data ingestion, increase data scaling, and enhance data exploitation to ensure increased interoperability and secure data
- Ensure data quality and integrity through data validation, cleansing, and monitoring
- Support the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ML based pipelines for data inference
- Improve BPMN models through close and continuous collaboration with analytics teams, SMEs, and systems users and managers responsible for the business processes
- Enable efficient interfacing with business intelligence tools, increased data accessibility, and broad access within security control regimes
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
- Eligibility to apply for and hold a US security clearance (selected applicants will undergo a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements at the time of employment).
- BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology Management or related technical field along with 7+ years experience obtaining data from multiple, disparate data sources including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data OR MS degree with 3-5 years of related experience
- Conceptual and Logical Data Modeling experience using UML, Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN), and Entity Relationship/Studio Data Architect
- Knowledge of common algorithms (i.e., decision trees, NLP, programming logic, etc.).
- Familiarity with DevOps processes and code versioning tools such as git
- Experience with test result verification and defect debugging
Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology Management or related technical field
- Familiarity with tools and/or languages such as Graph DBs/Cypher, PostgreSQL/SQL, or Java
- Experience with data conversions and Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tools and concepts
- Demonstrated experience with enhancing, managing, optimizing performance, and processing large volumes of data
- Familiarity with industry best practices for software/hardware development when processing large data sets
- Experience with developing data processing workflows using UML, Draw.io, and the Joint Enterprise Modeling and Analytics (JEMA) framework or Apache NiFi
- Experience in AWS services including but not limited to EC2, Sagemaker, S3, EMR, and IAM
Who is ARA?
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,112 employee owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.
ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.
To find out more about what the Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division has to offer, visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/benefits/
