Enterprise Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Sustain the enterprise architecture baseline, which encompasses business capabilities, applications, data flows, and infrastructure components.

• Create and oversee the enterprise architecture roadmap that aligns with mission objectives and modernization priorities.

• Perform architectural evaluations to pinpoint redundancies, modernization requirements, and opportunities for technological enhancements.

• Manage architecture governance to ensure adherence to enterprise standards and DoD-aligned security protocols.

• Collaborate with product teams, cloud architects, and cybersecurity specialists to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives.

• Define and uphold reference architectures, integration patterns, and design standards.

• Assess system designs for compliance with Zero Trust, IL5 cloud, and cybersecurity mandates.

• Assist with enterprise portfolio management, covering system inventories, lifecycle statuses, and capability mapping.

• Analyze new technologies, tools, and cloud services for strategic relevance and long-term viability.

• Facilitate architecture working groups, decision boards, and technical reviews across teams.

• Generate architecture diagrams, capability models, workflow documents, and strategic planning materials.

• Support significant modernization projects and large-scale system redesign initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must possess an active Top Secret clearance, endorsed by a Tier 5 background investigation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a similar discipline.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect, Systems Architect, or senior technical strategist.

• Experience in maintaining enterprise architecture baselines and directing modernization efforts.

• Background in working across business, application, data, and infrastructure architecture domains.

• Experience supporting federal or DoD mission environments.

• Strong comprehension of enterprise architecture frameworks and capability modeling.

• Familiarity with cloud architectures, ideally AWS GovCloud.

• Knowledge of DoD security mandates, Zero Trust principles, and RMF-aligned architecture.

• Understanding of integration patterns, API ecosystems, and system interoperability.

• ITIL v4 Foundation certification is required.

• CompTIA Security+ certification is mandatory.

• AWS Solutions Architect certification (Associate or Professional) is required.

• Strong strategic thinking capabilities and the ability to align technology with mission objectives.

• Exceptional communication skills for engaging with executives, architects, and engineering teams.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for addressing complex enterprise challenges.

• High attention to detail paired with a disciplined approach to documentation.

• Capability to lead architectural governance and support rapid modernization efforts.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections.

• Consideration for other available positions requiring comparable skills, education, and experience.