Enterprise Architect (MBSE)

Agile Defense•Pensacola, FL

131d•Onsite

About The Position

The DON BEA Enterprise Architect supports the development, validation, and compliance of Department of the Navy (DON) Business Enterprise Architecture. The role develops required DON BEA architecture artifacts, validates system alignment to capabilities and operational activities, and ensures accurate modeling of interfaces and data exchanges. The architect applies model-based systems engineering (MBSE) practices and may use ARIS to create authoritative, defensible models that guide Navy enterprise decision-making. The position develops and maintains architecture artifacts consistent with DON BEA and DoDAF standards, produces required architecture deliverables, and ensures traceability across capabilities, operational activities, system behaviors, and data representations. It validates systems’ enablement of capabilities, operational activities, interfaces, and data exchanges; identifies architecture gaps, inconsistencies, and integration risks; and supports DON BEA governance reviews. The architect uses MBSE tools such as Cameo, Enterprise Architect, and ARIS to build, update, and validate integrated architecture models, while maintaining model consistency, configuration control, versioning, governance, and data quality. The position also integrates data from systems including DITPR DON, PBIS IT, ARIS when used, and authoritative system documentation. It supports compliance assessments, develops recommendations and improvement plans, and assists with DON BEA Assertion Portal submissions and governance reviews. The role is on-site in Pensacola, Florida, in a typical office environment. A Secret clearance is required before starting, as is Security+ certification.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience; each year of work experience may substitute for a year of required education.
At least 5 years of experience.
Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as DON BEA, DoDAF, or similar.
Demonstrated ability to create architecture views including OV 5a, CV 2, CV 6, CV 7, SV 1, SV 5b, EV 7, DIV 1, and related products.
Experience validating system enablement of capabilities, operational activities, interfaces, and data exchanges.
Strong analytical skills for mapping system functionality, behaviors, processes, and data flows.
Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Secret clearance required to start.
Security+ certification required.

Nice To Haves

Ability to facilitate workshops, operational activities, interfaces, and architecture modeling.
Ability to communicate findings and risks and make recommendations.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain architecture artifacts consistent with DON BEA and DoDAF standards.
Produce architecture deliverables including OV 5a, CV 2, CV 6, CV 7, SV 1, SV 5b, EV 7, DIV 1, and additional views required by DON BEA policy.
Ensure traceability between capabilities, operational activities, system behaviors, and data representations.
Support alignment of systems to DON operational activities, capabilities, and end-to-end categories.
Use DON BEA-prescribed architecture taxonomies to classify capabilities, operational activities, data, processes, and system attributes.
Validate system enablement of capabilities, operational activities, interfaces, and data exchanges.
Assess the completeness and correctness of system mappings to mission requirements, processes, and data structures.
Identify architecture gaps, inconsistencies, and integration risks.
Support defensible architecture assertions for DON BEA governance reviews.
Use MBSE tools such as Cameo, Enterprise Architect, and ARIS to build, update, and validate integrated architecture models.
Apply ARIS, when available, to represent processes, capabilities, operational activities, and system interactions in alignment with DON BEA modeling expectations.
Maintain consistency and configuration control across architecture models.
Apply model-based methods to develop authoritative, single-source-of-truth architecture artifacts.
Integrate data from DITPR DON, PBIS IT, ARIS when used, and authoritative system documentation.
Manage versioning, model governance, and architecture data quality.
Support compliance assessments, including necessity, utility, documentation sufficiency, and DON BEA alignment.
Develop recommendations, gap analyses, and targeted architecture improvement plans.
Assist in preparing submissions and updates for the DON BEA Assertion Portal and governance reviews.