Enterprise Architect
Ashburn Consulting•Fairfax, VA
•$150,000 - $175,000
About The Position
Ashburn Consulting is hiring an Enterprise Architect to support the Chief Architect. The role focuses on disaster recovery and business continuity, secure network and identity architecture, and improving observability and resilience across critical systems. The Enterprise Architect will assess current capabilities and risks, define actionable target architectures, coordinate with technical teams, and communicate technical risks and options to senior leadership and agency stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead disaster recovery and business continuity efforts, including architecture for critical facilities such as 911 and backup sites.
- Assess current recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO), disaster recovery plans, and risks, then define actionable target-state disaster recovery architectures.
- Shape secure remote access and perimeter defense patterns with security and network teams, focusing on principles and capabilities rather than specific products.
- Partner with domain administrators to improve Active Directory and identity architecture and help define roles and responsibilities (RACI) for core services.
- Guide network segmentation and the retirement of legacy network overlays to improve security and resilience.
- Work with application, database, and infrastructure teams to improve observability so issues are detected early and recovery is faster.
- Translate technical risks and options into clear language for the CIO, senior leadership, and agency stakeholders to enable informed decisions.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
Upload and Match Resume
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
