Senior Enterprise Architect

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

📋 Description

• Oversee enterprise architecture and systems-engineering initiatives across software, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operational areas.

• Evaluate existing systems, architectures, processes, interfaces, capabilities, constraints, risks, and technical debt.

• Create target-state and transitional architectures that align with mission goals and modernization strategies.

• Formulate and refine system and enterprise Concepts of Operations.

• Lead CONOPS workshops with government stakeholders, mission leaders, users, engineers, and operational staff.

• Convert mission requirements and operational concepts into architectural drivers and technical specifications.

• Perform structured requirements analysis and ensure traceability among mission requirements, architectures, specifications, interfaces, designs, testing criteria, and delivered capabilities.

• Carry out technical analyses and trade studies, documenting alternatives, findings, risks, dependencies, and recommendations.

• Establish system, application, service, data, security, deployment, and integration architecture.

• Create or supervise architecture diagrams, System Design Documents, Interface Control Documents, and Interface Design Documents.

• Specify interface requirements and coordinate integration strategies with application owners, mission partners, external agencies, vendors, and technical teams.

• Formulate strategies for scalability, extensibility, high availability, continuity of operations, backup, recovery, monitoring, logging, alerting, and service restoration.

• Generate technical contributions for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates, encompassing scope, assumptions, components, environments, interfaces, dependencies, licenses, infrastructure, cloud services, labor, migration, testing, security, training, and sustainment requirements.

• Develop modernization roadmaps and transition architectures, including implementation phases, dependencies, sequencing, migration, and retirement plans.

• Assist in the development, integration, testing, staging, and operational environments.

• Offer architectural guidance during Agile release and Sprint planning, backlog refinement, design, development, integration, testing, and demonstrations.

• Engage in architecture, system-design, interface, security, technical interchange, release-readiness reviews, and demonstrations.

• Coordinate security architecture, trust boundaries, access controls, data protection, logging, vulnerability management, RMF controls, Federal and DoD standards, and DISA STIGs.

• Manage architecture repositories, diagrams, standards, decision records, models, plans, and supporting documentation.

• Present architecture alternatives, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and recommendations to both technical and executive stakeholders.

• Report architecture accomplishments, decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, and modernization status for program oversight.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or a higher level of security clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience as permitted by the applicable labor category.

• At least ten years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture, systems architecture, systems engineering, solution architecture, software architecture, or a related technical field.

• Proven experience in developing enterprise or system Concepts of Operations.

• Experience in conducting technical analyses and trade studies.

• Demonstrated ability to decompose mission or business needs into functional, component, interface, security, performance, and derived requirements.

• Experience in defining and documenting system and external-interface requirements.

• Background in supporting complex systems integration across software, data, infrastructure, cloud, network, security, or external systems.

• Experience in designing scalable, extensible, resilient, and maintainable enterprise solutions.

• Proven history of developing technical assumptions and inputs for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates.

• Experience in creating current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.

• Experience in producing or reviewing architecture diagrams, System Design Documents, Interface Control Documents, Interface Design Documents, requirements-traceability records, and architecture decision records.

• Ability to communicate architecture decisions, options, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, facilitation, technical writing, presentation, and problem-solving abilities.

• CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, DoD 8140-aligned certification, TOGAF, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, CISSP, INCOSE, or ITIL certifications are preferred but not mandatory.

• Experience in Department of Defense architecture or systems engineering is preferred.

• Familiarity with ArchiMate, SysML, UML, Cameo, Sparx Enterprise Architect, or similar platforms is preferred.

• Experience with Zero Trust, identity architecture, cloud architecture, DevSecOps, data architecture, API management, or enterprise integration is preferred.

• Knowledge of RMF authorization, DISA STIG compliance, COOP, disaster recovery, or mission-resilience planning is preferred.

• Experience collaborating with multiple Agile software development teams is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

• Pay transparency protections.

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