Senior Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

• Design and oversee the enterprise-wide architecture strategy to ensure alignment between business goals and technology capabilities.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and governance processes that guide system design and technology investments.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps that support long-term organizational strategy and digital transformation initiatives.
• Analyze existing systems, infrastructure, and application architecture to identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Recommend and design solutions that improve system efficiency, scalability, integration, and performance.
• Ensure interoperability and integration across enterprise systems, applications, and data platforms.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product teams, and technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into architectural solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance and oversight during solution design, development, and implementation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to support innovation and modernization initiatives.
• Support governance processes to ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and compliance requirements.
• Document enterprise architecture artifacts including reference architectures, system diagrams, and architectural decision records.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT architecture, systems engineering, or enterprise technology strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to produce well-structured architecture artifacts and diagrams suitable for executive, technical, and governance audiences.
• Experience analyzing interdependencies across business processes, data assets, analytical models, and technology platforms.
• Ability to collaborate with business and technical teams to align process designs with architecture constraints.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, FEAF) and their practical application.
• Experience assessing technical debt, system interdependencies, architectural risk, and modernization readiness.
• Experience supporting or informing technology modernization, cloud migration, or platform rationalization initiatives.
• Strong written and oral skills.
• Experience utilizing agile methods and tools (Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Trello).
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strategic thinking and long-term technology planning.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.
• US Citizenship required.
• Must reside in the Continental US; and be within driving distance to Washington, DC.
• Depending on the government agency, specific requirements may include public trust background check or security clearance.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• health care
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• 401(k)
• paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.