Senior Enterprise Architect

Diné Development Corporation•Quantico, VA

2d•$120,000 - $160,000

About The Position

The Senior Enterprise Architect leads enterprise architecture across applications, cloud, cybersecurity, networks, infrastructure, data, integration, and IT operations. This role serves as the senior technical authority for support services spanning all contract task areas and provides technical oversight of the program alongside the Program Manager and Alternate Program Manager. The architect establishes standards across cloud, cybersecurity, network, systems, application, and service management teams; directs configuration and change management; owns architecture baselines and documentation; reviews proposed changes before Government approval; and leads modernization planning with client leadership. The position provides architecture direction for systems across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, including CloudOne (AWS GovCloud) at Impact Levels 4 through 6. It works with cybersecurity teams to incorporate security and compliance requirements into designs and changes, aligns architecture with IT portfolio management and capital planning, and briefs client leadership on architecture, standards, and change and configuration performance. A bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience is required; a master's degree is preferred. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and hold an active Top Secret/SCI clearance or be SCI eligible, and must have a DoD 8140 IAT Level III cybersecurity certification appropriate to their assigned work role and proficiency level. The role requires at least 10 years of progressively responsible relevant technical experience, including at least 5 years in a senior architecture or technical authority role and at least 5 years supporting Government work where change management, configuration management, or IT systems engineering was a primary duty. Salary range: $120,000–$160,000.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise IT, systems engineering, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, network engineering, application architecture, or related technical disciplines.
At least 5 years serving as an Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect, Chief Engineer, Lead Systems Architect, or comparable senior technical authority.
At least 5 years in a Government position or contractor role supporting a Government agency, with change management, configuration management, or IT systems engineering as a primary duty.
Expert knowledge of enterprise and solution architecture principles, architecture governance, systems engineering, technology road mapping, and lifecycle management.
Strong understanding of federal and DoD enterprise environments, including classified and unclassified networks.
Experience designing and governing secure cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions.
Expertise implementing AWS cloud services, virtualization, compute, storage, databases, networking, identity and access management, containers, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps.
Familiarity with the Risk Management Framework, vulnerability management, SIEM, and continuous monitoring.
Experience applying DISA STIGs/SRGs and secure configuration baselines, and creating POA&Ms.
Understanding of Zero Trust architecture, network segmentation, identity-centric security, least privilege, encryption, and boundary-protection patterns.
Experience integrating enterprise platforms, applications, APIs, workflows, identity services, databases, reporting capabilities, and external systems.
Working knowledge of network and infrastructure architecture, including routing, switching, firewalls, software-defined networking, virtualization, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations.
Familiarity with configuration management, change management, Agile and Waterfall delivery, IT portfolio management, and ITIL-based service management.
Ability to analyze complex requirements and produce architecture diagrams, interface descriptions, technical standards, decision papers, implementation plans, and executive briefings.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior Government leaders and technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience leading architecture across three or more major domains, such as cloud, cybersecurity, applications, networks, infrastructure, data, or IT service management.
Experience developing architecture for highly available, mission-critical, geographically distributed, and security-sensitive environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related discipline, or equivalent professional experience in lieu of a degree.
Must be a U.S. citizen and have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance or be SCI eligible.
Must hold a DoD 8140 IAT Level III cybersecurity certification appropriate to the assigned work role and proficiency level.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS GovCloud or Cloud One.
Experience working with networks in a USAF IT environment.
DoD or DAF experience.
Master’s degree.
CISSP or CompTIA SecurityX/CASP+ certification.

Responsibilities

Lead in setting architecture standards across functional and technical support teams.
Develop and maintain physical and logical architecture diagrams for every client location and logical descriptions of cloud-based systems.
Perform and oversee IT systems engineering to design, build, and test IT solutions of varying scale across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Provide architecture direction for applications hosted in CloudOne (AWS GovCloud) at Impact Levels 4 through 6, including Zero Trust, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices.
Partner with cybersecurity teams to incorporate RMF, STIG/SRG, and Secure Host Baseline requirements into designs and changes, and maintain security architecture documentation.
Advise client divisions on modernization plans and sequencing, including service consolidation, application refactoring, and migrations across on-premises and cloud environments.
Align architecture with IT portfolio management and capital planning, including Enterprise Architecture relationships and investment data maintained in ITIPS.
Serve as the contractor counterpart to Government Configuration Management and Engineering leads.
Brief client leadership on architecture, standards, and change and configuration performance.
Review technical designs and guide multidisciplinary teams through design, implementation, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization activities.