ARPA-H Advanced Cloud Architect (ITDI)

Program Overview:

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is a research funding agency that supports transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs to provide health solutions for all.  

ARPA-H advances high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. ARPA-H awardees are developing entirely new ways to tackle the hardest challenges in health. With a scope spanning the molecular to the societal, ARPA-H programs have the potential to radically improve everyone's health. Their streamlined awards process enables us to act quickly and catalyze cutting-edge biomedical and health research. ARPA-H creates an environment to support the best ideas from Program Managers that bring together dynamic teams to solve the toughest health challenges.  

Key focus areas of ARPA-H research portfolio will include Health Science Futures (expanding what’s technically possible), Scalable Solutions (reaching everyone quickly), Proactive Health (keeping people from being patients), and Resilient Systems (building integrated healthcare systems).

Role description:

As an ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) Advanced Cloud Architect for the Strategic Technical ARPA-H Talent Support (STATS) Program at Noblis, you will be part of our Health Solutions account team, where you will leverage your science and/or engineering expertise in computer science or related scientific field for Task Order research and development (R&D) programs throughout their lifecycle, directly supporting Federal PM and the ARPA-H leaders to deliver transformative, sustainable, and equitable health solutions for the Nation. 

You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based infrastructure and services to enable organizations to leverage the benefits of cloud computing. They utilize their expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, automation, and scalability to architect resilient, secure, and cost-effective solutions that meet business requirements. Typical responsibilities include designing cloud architectures, selecting appropriate cloud services and providers, and implementing cloud infrastructure using tools such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and configuration management tools.

Responsibilities and Duties include:

• The Advanced Cloud Architect will plan and develop R&D projects, concerned with unique or controversial problems which have an important effect on major programs. 

• Evaluating the feasibility of technical approaches to problems. 

• Reviewing health research-related technical reports, 

• Developing and evaluating scientific capability development strategies.  

• Monitoring R&D projects and technical performance against goals.  

• Developing test and evaluation methodologies. 

• Assessing the efficacy, safety, cost lifecycle costs of proposed or realized scientific solutions. 

• Developing scientific program status reports, PowerPoint briefings, and read-ahead materials. 

• Developing, monitoring, and maintaining a central repository of R&D efforts.  

• Organizing, coordinating, and participating in meetings, discussions, and seminars on ARPA-H-related topics, 

• Communicating scientific findings to technical and non-technical audiences as needed 

• Providing support to Portfolio and Program Managers in their continued engagement with ARPA-H customers. 

• Performing routine tasks including, but not limited to, scheduling, writing internal memos, maintaining and updating Program Management records, filing, intranet website maintenance, preparing and reviewing presentations, records maintenance, and coordinating daily operations of the assigned program. 

• Assisting with planning technology transitions to the respective operational customer. 

• Supporting the identification, assessment, evaluation, and testing of existing and emerging healthcare technologies, systems, and capabilities, including coordination with related government, academic, and industry programs; attending meetings and symposia; coordinating meetings and programs reviews; and supporting program advocacy including development and production of presentation materials.  

• Provide expertise and advice regarding AI/ML. 

• Proactively identify risk areas highlighting impact to mission and proactively developing solutions. 

• Capture meeting minutes and lessons learned and incorporates solutions to action items and acquisition process improvement methodologies. 

• Manage and respond to program-aligned data calls, compiling information, and preparing information for reporting to senior leadership. 

• Provide Noblis-internal leadership, including: 

• Possible line management responsibilities. 

• Providing professional development and mentorship for teammates. 

• Development of new Business Development (BD) opportunities and related capture management, in close collaboration with Noblis’ BD team. 

This is an opportunity for someone with significant government contracting experience in R&D and ARPA settings to work with an exceptionally talented and high-performing team on challenging and cutting-edge healthcare projects.  

Role Description: Noblis is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Advanced Cloud Architect (ITDI) to join our team at ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health).  As an ARPA-H Advanced Cloud Architect (ITDI), Noblis is looking for the following required qualifications:

• Master’s degree in engineering or related scientific field is required. 
• A minimum of 10 years past work experience in a scientific or engineering role, such as a Scientist or Engineering SME
• Demonstrated experience developing and refining the agency’s cloud strategy in alignment with the mission.  
• Selecting appropriate cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and providers, considering factors like scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Architecture Design: Design cloud-based architectures that are scalable, resilient, and secure. 

The following are desired qualifications:

• Experience supporting a governmental research and development organization such as DARPA

• Experience with the Microsoft 365 platform including the transition to a new tenant. 

• Experience in developing and managing cloud strategies aligned with organizational goals.  

• Experience in designing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-based architectures using cloud-native technologies. 

• Experience in progressively more difficult levels in planning and developing R&D projects of a research and development nature, concerned with unique or controversial problems which have an important effect on major programs.  

• Demonstrated skill in conceiving, planning, and conducting research in problem areas of considerable scope and complexity requiring unconventional or novel approaches and sophisticated research techniques.  

• Experience with having successfully demonstrated the ability to independently conduct the appropriate analysis to offer recommendations, solution, and alternatives to resolve R&D issues, concerns, problems, or methods in areas related to ARPA program offices.  

• Demonstrated experience in the use of advanced techniques, theories, precepts, and practices required in the field/disciplines to which he/she is providing expertise.  

• Published articles in the Field of Expertise is highly desirable. 

• Experience in establishing strong working relationships with R&D program managers as well as organization leadership; tracking task order efforts to rapidly identify and resolve potential and new problems; and identifying and resolving administrative and contractual issues related to a support services contract is required. 

• Demonstrated creativity, foresight, initiative, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented problems. 

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills. Proven results-oriented problem-solving abilities. Experience with presentation graphics and/or spreadsheet tools. 

• Experience providing guidance, feedback, and consulting services to federal program managers. 

• Ability to work in a dynamic team-oriented environment, demonstrate teamwork and initiative, and function productively in the face of new assignments and the re-prioritization of existing assignments.   

• Experience from existing Advanced Research Projects Agencies (e.g. IARPA, DARPA, HSARPA, ARPA-E) is strongly desired.  

• Experience supporting federal agency program managers and leaders is preferred. 

• Ability to work on multiple projects which includes prioritizing, tracking, attention to detail, follow-up and follow-through to project completion.  

• Proven results-oriented problem-solving abilities.  

• Ability to work in a dynamic team-oriented environment, demonstrate teamwork and initiative, and function productively in the face of new assignments and the re-prioritization of existing assignments.   

• Experience preparing and reports, schedules and status inputs 

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