Technology Delivery/Enterprise Architect Lead Senior Manager

Accenture Federal Services•Washington, DC

13h•$148,800 - $306,500

About The Position

At Accenture Federal Services, our purpose is to make the US federal government stronger and safer, and to improve the lives of citizens through technology and ingenuity. We are seeking a Technical Lead / Enterprise Architect to oversee the end-to-end technical architecture for a cyber platform. This role involves defining target architecture, standards, and guardrails, directing technical decisions, and ensuring secure, scalable delivery across approximately 17 sites in both Unclassified and Classified environments. The Architect will collaborate with senior project leadership, CIO/CISO stakeholders, site authorities, and cross-functional delivery teams to design, implement, and transition a modernized RMF operating model and consolidated eGRC platform. Expertise in enterprise-scale federal architectures, RMF governance, multi-site interoperability, zero-trust security design, cloud-native modernization, and complex technical orchestration is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Data/Analytics, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
10+ years in architecture/engineering roles, including 5+ years leading large-scale IT implementations and platform consolidations.
5+ years implementing or architecting enterprise cyber platforms supporting RMF/FISMA/NIST 800-53 (eGRC preferred but not required).
Demonstrated experience across Unclassified and Classified environments, multi-site deployments, and complex data migrations.
Hands-on experience with GovCloud/FedRAMP, Zero Trust, DevSecOps, CI/CD, IaC/CaC, cloud security services.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/Q clearance (not required at application).
US Citizenship.
Leadership designing/delivering enterprise-scale architectures across complex multi-site federal environments (Unclassified + Classified).
Expertise in enterprise cyber platforms (Wraithwatch, Xacta, RegScale), RMF operations, control inheritance, compliance reporting.
Deep hands-on experience with cloud (GovCloud/FedRAMP), DevSecOps, IaC/CaC, CI/CD, container orchestration, automation frameworks.
Strong security engineering across Zero Trust, identity/federation, encryption, logging/auditing, EDR, vulnerability management, boundary protections.
Ability to convey complex technical concepts to executives and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical decision-making, documentation discipline, and standards management.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Oversee the end-to-end technical architecture for the cyber platform across two phases: Readiness & Planning (Phase 0) and Platform Implementation.
Define target architecture, standards, and guardrails for the cyber platform.
Direct technical decisions and ensure secure, scalable delivery across ~17 sites in Unclassified and Classified environments.
Design, implement, and transition a modernized RMF operating model and consolidated eGRC platform.
Lead structured RFI/RFP processes, vendor demonstrations, and hands-on proof-of-concepts for platform selection.
Develop scoring rubrics for platform selection based on capabilities, fit/gap, integration complexity, security posture, TCO, and operating model fit.
Deliver defensible recommendations aligned to NNSA mission objectives.
Coordinate decision logs, trade-off analyses, and implementation dependencies with PMO and executive governance.
Establish technical governance, including architecture review cadence, decision authority, design standards, waiver processes, and escalation paths.
Define and publish enterprise architecture (EA) blueprint covering services, data domains, integrations, security controls, environments, and deployment patterns.
Lead structured discovery across independent Lab/Plant/Site ecosystems with distinct CIO/CISO authority, authorization boundaries, policies, badging, data taxonomies, legacy implementations, and RMF maturity.
Develop site-specific architecture profiles, complexity scoring, readiness plans, and synthesize a consolidation/optimization strategy.
Define reference architectures for platform, data, integration, security, and operations.
Develop reusable patterns for workflow orchestration, control inheritance, and reporting.
Build metrics/KPI/SLO frameworks and architect telemetry for near-real-time compliance and risk visibility.
Sequence multi-site deployments, develop regional wave plans, and define a “transition war room” operating model.
Architect Zero Trust aligned with NIST guidance for multi-location, cloud-native applications.
Define control families, inheritance models, continuous authorization practices, and DevSecOps-embedded security.
Specify cryptographic standards (FIPS), logging/auditing, boundary protections (WAF/IDS/IPS), data-in-transit/at-rest protections, endpoint/EDR requirements, IPv6, and trusted connectivity.
Design service desk and support architecture (Tier 0–3), KM frameworks, runbooks, SRE practices, observability stack, IR playbooks, and cost/FinOps guardrails.
Lead platform instantiation and hardened configuration in government-managed cloud environments.
Enforce secure-by-default baselines, IaC/CaC pipelines, and policy-as-code.
Define and validate standardized workflows, automation, control libraries, RBAC configurations; govern non-standard variances.
Own migration architecture including source inventory, mapping, lineage, quality thresholds, reconciliation, and cutover sequencing.
Establish master data/taxonomy standards and data services enabling near-real-time analytics and compliance reporting.
Architect secure integrations with identity/federation services, ITSM/ticketing, SIEM/SOAR, vulnerability/scanning tools, document repositories, and messaging systems.
Ensure least-privilege, auditable, and resilient integration flows.
Implement telemetry, log aggregation, and health dashboards across application, platform, and network layers.
Define alerts and SLOs tied to operational KPIs and compliance metrics.
Integrate FinOps practices for consumption tracking, capacity optimization, and cost governance.
Co-develop hands-on, lab-based technical training for architects, engineers, site admins, and functional users (~17 sites).
Implement feedback loops for continuous improvement.
Direct architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure configuration validation, UAT, performance testing, and compliance verification.
Manage defect triage.
Author Transition to Operations architecture and formally accept systems into steady state.