Enterprise Architect (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek • Chicago, IL

9d • Remote

About The Position

DecisionPoint seeks a senior Enterprise Architect to provide architectural and systems-engineering leadership for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The role evaluates current and target-state architectures across software, data, cloud, infrastructure, integration, security, and operations, ensuring proposed solutions are secure, interoperable, extensible, scalable, resilient, supportable, and aligned with mission priorities and applicable Federal and DoD standards. The position collaborates with Government mission owners, engineers, cybersecurity personnel, cloud and infrastructure teams, data teams, Agile delivery teams, testers, configuration managers, operations personnel, and program leadership.

The Enterprise Architect leads architecture and systems-engineering activities, develops Concepts of Operations, translates mission needs into requirements, conducts technical trade studies, defines system and interface architecture, and provides technical inputs for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates. The position also develops transition architectures and modernization roadmaps; supports Agile delivery, integration, testing, security reviews, and operational readiness; and maintains architecture documentation and traceability. The architect communicates options, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

This is a remote position, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Occasional travel or on-site participation may be required for architecture workshops, planning sessions, design reviews, or Government briefings. Applicants acknowledge and consent to their resume being included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture, systems architecture, systems engineering, solution architecture, software architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience developing enterprise or system Concepts of Operations.
• Experience conducting technical analyses and trade studies.
• Experience decomposing mission or business needs into functional, component, interface, security, performance, and derived requirements.
• Experience defining and documenting system and external-interface requirements.
• Experience supporting complex systems integration across software, data, infrastructure, cloud, network, security, or external systems.
• Experience designing scalable, extensible, resilient, and supportable enterprise solutions.
• Experience developing technical assumptions and inputs for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates.
• Experience developing current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.
• Experience producing or reviewing architecture diagrams, System Design Documents, Interface Control Documents, Interface Design Documents, requirements-traceability records, and architecture decision records.
• Experience communicating architecture decisions, options, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, technical-writing, presentation, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• CISSP-ISSAP certification.
• CISSP-ISSEP certification.
• A certification formerly recognized for DoD 8570.01-M IASAE Level III and aligned to the applicable current DoD 8140 work role and proficiency level.
• TOGAF certification.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification.
• International Council on Systems Engineering certification, such as Certified Systems Engineering Professional.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense enterprise architecture or systems-engineering programs.
• Experience applying DoD Architecture Framework, Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework, or comparable architecture methods.
• Experience with architecture-modeling languages or tools such as ArchiMate, SysML, UML, Cameo, Sparx Enterprise Architect, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with Zero Trust, identity architecture, cloud architecture, DevSecOps, data architecture, API management, or enterprise integration.
• Experience supporting RMF authorization, DISA STIG compliance, COOP, disaster recovery, or mission-resilience planning.
• Experience working with multiple Agile software-development teams.
• ITIL v4 Foundation or higher certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture and systems-engineering activities across software, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operational domains.
• Assess current-state systems, architectures, processes, interfaces, capabilities, constraints, risks, and technical debt; develop target-state and transitional architectures aligned with mission objectives and modernization priorities.
• Develop and update system and enterprise Concepts of Operations; document operating scenarios, stakeholders, users, workflows, system boundaries, dependencies, constraints, assumptions, and support concepts; facilitate CONOPS workshops.
• Translate mission needs and operational concepts into architectural drivers and technical requirements; decompose high-level needs into functional, product, component, interface, security, data, performance, availability, and operational requirements.
• Maintain traceability among mission needs, CONOPS elements, architecture decisions, requirements, interfaces, designs, test criteria, and delivered capabilities; support requirements-traceability matrices and define architecture-level acceptance criteria and verification approaches.
• Identify and resolve requirement conflicts, gaps, ambiguities, duplication, and unsupported assumptions.
• Conduct technical analyses and trade studies of commercial, Government, custom-developed, cloud, platform, infrastructure, data, integration, and security alternatives; document criteria, assumptions, findings, risks, dependencies, and recommendations.
• Identify capability gaps, technology-integration and reuse opportunities, and modernization options; develop architecture decision records and obtain stakeholder review and approval.
• Define system, application, service, data, security, deployment, and integration architecture; develop or oversee architecture diagrams, System Design Documents, and architecture-design sections.
• Define architecture patterns, standards, reference models, design principles, and reusable technical approaches; review technical designs for alignment with enterprise architecture, validated requirements, security standards, and operational constraints.
• Define and document internal and external interface requirements; develop or oversee Interface Control Documents and Interface Design Documents; coordinate with application owners, mission partners, external agencies, vendors, and technical teams.
• Evaluate API, event, batch, file-transfer, database, identity, network, and third-party integration approaches, ensuring interfaces support security, maintainability, observability, backward compatibility, and controlled evolution.
• Develop scalability and extensibility approaches; assess demand, mission criticality, transaction volume, data growth, concurrency, integration load, and performance requirements; define scaling, elasticity, capacity management, modularity, reuse, and expansion approaches.
• Ensure architecture supports sustainability, high availability, COOP, backup, recovery, and service-level requirements; evaluate single points of failure, capacity constraints, resilience gaps, recovery dependencies, and operational risks.
• Define architectural requirements for monitoring, logging, alerting, supportability, fault isolation, and service restoration.
• Develop technical inputs for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates, including scope, assumptions, components, environments, interfaces, dependencies, licenses, infrastructure, cloud services, labor considerations, migration, testing, security, training, and sustainment needs.
• Coordinate with program and financial personnel on defensible ROM assumptions; identify uncertainty, cost drivers, risk allowances, phases, and alternatives; develop or review Bills of Materials.
• Develop modernization roadmaps and transition architectures, including implementation phases, increments, dependencies, sequencing, interim states, migration considerations, and retirement activities.
• Support transitions from legacy and on-premises capabilities to approved centralized, cloud, hybrid, or modernized environments; assess migration readiness and required architecture changes.
• Support the design, establishment, use, and decommissioning of development, integration, testing, staging, and operational environments; ensure preproduction environments adequately represent interfaces, dependencies, configurations, controls, performance, and operational constraints.
• Provide architectural guidance during Agile release and Sprint planning, backlog refinement, design, development, integration, testing, and demonstrations; translate architecture requirements into user stories, enablers, acceptance criteria, and implementation tasks.
• Maintain an architecture runway for current delivery and anticipated mission needs; review Sprint outputs for architecture alignment and identify corrective or follow-on work.
• Participate in architecture, system-design, interface, security, technical interchange, release-readiness reviews, and demonstrations.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to incorporate security architecture, trust boundaries, access controls, data protection, logging, vulnerability management, and applicable RMF controls.
• Ensure architectural solutions account for applicable Federal and DoD software standards and DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides; document architecture-level risks and mitigations throughout the system lifecycle.
• Keep architecture documentation aligned with configuration baselines, approved changes, deployed systems, and operational realities; maintain repositories, diagrams, standards, decision records, models, plans, and supporting documentation.
• Communicate architectural concepts through technical documents, visual models, briefings, workshops, and recommendations; present options, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Provide architecture accomplishments, decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, and modernization status for program reporting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior