Lead Enterprise Architect

Hunter Strategy • Washington, DC

8h • $170,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

Hunter Strategy is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect at the subject matter expert level to support a new, greenfield mission with a large federal civilian agency. You will join a team of architects and engineers to stand up an enterprise architecture, building the architectural runway and authoring the baseline architecture, governance, and standards artifacts that a large number of development teams in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment will build against.

Requirements

• 10+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience
• Experience establishing enterprise architecture in a new or transforming organization
• Experience authoring governance frameworks and technical standards for consumption by development teams
• Experience working in a SAFe environment, including architectural runway planning
• Experience operating across organizational boundaries, with development teams that report elsewhere
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination

Nice To Haves

• TOGAF or comparable enterprise architecture certification
• Experience supporting federal civilian or defense programs, particularly multi-contractor environments
• Familiarity with microservices and API-first architectures, including OpenAPI and gRPC
• Experience reviewing designs produced by teams the architect does not manage

Responsibilities

• Build the architectural runway for a greenfield federal program in a SAFe environment
• Author the baseline enterprise architecture, governance framework, and technical standards artifacts during the base period
• Work alongside the Solution Architect and Senior Data Architect to determine the enterprise architecture for the program
• Stand up the architecture governance that development team designs and release artifacts are reviewed against
• Maintain the enterprise architecture, governance, and standards artifacts as living Work Products across the option periods
• Review development team designs for architectural alignment and report findings with clear, actionable recommendations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed