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Defense Enterprise Chief Architect

ECS FEDERAL LLC258 open roles

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Everforth ECS is seeking a The Defense Enterprise Chief Architect to work in our Fairfax, VA office. The Defense Enterprise Chief Architect for the Defense Enterprise Account is the senior technical architect, sales engineering leader, and technology strategist for a portfolio supporting Department of Defense Fourth Estate agencies and Combatant Commands.

Reporting to the Defense Enterprise Account Portfolio Leader, the Defense Enterprise Chief Architect operates across growth and delivery, engaging customers, prospective customers, partners, capture teams, and program organizations. The Defense Enterprise Chief Architect translates mission challenges into differentiated, secure, and executable solutions across:

  • Cloud modernization and operations
  • Data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
  • Autonomous systems and mission autonomy
  • Mission Partner Environments and secure information sharing
  • Enterprise IT modernization and cybersecurity

This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role. The Defense Enterprise Chief Architect must be equally effective advising senior customers, shaping a strategic pursuit, developing a solution architecture, presenting at competitive orals, and helping delivery teams resolve complex technical challenges. The successful candidate will combine mission focus, commercial awareness, technical credibility, collaborative leadership, and extreme ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Account Technology Strategy

  • Develop and execute the account technology strategy in alignment with customer missions, market priorities, growth objectives, and company capabilities.
  • Maintain an informed view of Fourth Estate and Combatant Command missions, architectures, acquisition priorities, and operational challenges.
  • Translate emerging technologies and customer demand signals into offerings, technical roadmaps, qualified opportunities, and investment recommendations.
  • Advise the Account Portfolio Leader on technology priorities, capability gaps, partnerships, and technical talent.
  • Connect corporate capabilities, intellectual property, solution accelerators, and subject-matter experts to account needs.

Growth, Capture, and Sales Engineering

  • Serve as the senior sales engineer and technical leader for strategic pursuits.
  • Partner with growth, business development, capture, and proposal teams to shape opportunities before solicitation release.
  • Engage customers to understand mission outcomes, constraints, technical requirements, and acquisition considerations.
  • Lead solution architecture, technical volumes, staffing and estimation inputs, demonstrations, white papers, transition strategies, and oral presentations.
  • Develop credible discriminators that strengthen competitive positioning and improve win probability.
  • Ensure proposed solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, supportable, competitively priced, and executable.
  • Evaluate technology and teaming partners based on mission value, technical fit, maturity, interoperability, and risk.

Portfolio Technical Leadership

  • Provide technical leadership across the account, partnering with program managers, chief engineers, architects, and delivery teams.
  • Conduct reviews of strategic programs to assess architecture, security, performance, scalability, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
  • Support resolution of complex technical issues, recovery of challenged efforts, and execution of major platform transitions.
  • Maintain continuity between capture and delivery by guiding technical transition from proposed solution through startup and operations.
  • Promote reuse of architectures, automation, engineering patterns, data products, and lessons learned across programs.
  • Ensure solutions account for classified, multi-enclave, coalition, tactical, edge, and disconnected operating environments.
  • Balance innovation with mission resilience, cybersecurity, accreditation, affordability, and operational sustainment.

Architecture, Innovation, and Solution Quality

  • Establish account standards for solution architecture, technical reviews, engineering documentation, and design assurance.
  • Develop reusable reference architectures across cloud, Data and AI, autonomy, Mission Partner Environments, Zero Trust, and enterprise IT.
  • Ensure solutions address interoperability, data governance, identity, cybersecurity, observability, resiliency, continuity of operations, and lifecycle support.
  • Identify technical, cost, schedule, security, and integration risks early enough to influence pursuit and delivery decisions.
  • Translate emerging capabilities—including generative AI, agentic systems, edge computing, digital engineering, autonomous platforms, and secure mission networking—into practical mission solutions.
  • Sponsor prototypes, demonstrations, and accelerators that can transition into accredited, scalable production environments.
  • Develop technical points of view and market-facing content that strengthen the company’s position in priority Defense Enterprise markets.

Customer and Industry Engagement

  • Build trusted relationships with government technology leaders, mission owners, program executives, chief architects, chief engineers, and operational stakeholders.
  • Lead technical exchanges, architecture workshops, solution sessions, demonstrations, and modernization discussions.
  • Represent the account at customer forums, partner meetings, industry events, and executive briefings.
  • Build relationships across the technology ecosystem, including cloud providers, software companies, original equipment manufacturers, systems integrators, research organizations, and nontraditional partners.
  • Communicate complex technical issues clearly to executive, acquisition, operational, and engineering audiences while remaining credible with Warfighters and technical practitioners.

Technical Talent Leadership

  • Build a connected account community of architects, engineers, data scientists, AI specialists, cybersecurity professionals, and mission technologists.
  • Identify technical workforce needs and support recruiting, succession planning, professional development, and retention.
  • Mentor chief engineers, solution architects, and emerging technical leaders.
  • Maintain visibility into account expertise and rapidly mobilize qualified talent for customer needs, delivery challenges, and priority captures.
  • Promote disciplined engineering, knowledge sharing, intellectual curiosity, transparency, and delivery excellence across a matrixed organization.

Leadership Relationships

The Defense Enterprise Chief Architect reports to the Defense Enterprise Account Portfolio Leader and serves on the account leadership team. The role works closely with growth and capture leaders, program directors, corporate technology organizations, chief engineers, functional leaders, and strategic partners.

The Defense Enterprise Chief Architect leads primarily through influence, technical credibility, and matrixed coordination. The position does not own corporate IT operations but coordinates with corporate technology and security organizations when their capabilities affect account growth or customer delivery.

Measures of Success

Success will be measured by:

  • Contribution to account bookings, revenue growth, and qualified pipeline
  • Technical win rate and quality of strategic pursuit solutions
  • Early customer shaping and strength of technical market positioning
  • Successful transition of proposed architectures into delivery
  • Improved technical performance and reduced delivery risk across the portfolio
  • Development and reuse of offerings, reference architectures, and accelerators
  • Customer confidence and recognition as a trusted mission-technology partner
  • Recruitment, development, and retention of critical technical talent
  • Growth of strategic technology and industry partnerships

Salary Range: $230,000 - $350,000

General Description of Benefits

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
  • Significant experience leading complex technology solutions in the federal or national security market.
  • Experience supporting Department of Defense customers, preferably Fourth Estate agencies, Combatant Commands, or mission partners.
  • Proven performance as a CTO, chief architect, chief engineer, technical director, or senior sales engineer.
  • Demonstrated success shaping opportunities and leading technical solutions for large federal captures.
  • Broad technical expertise across multiple priority areas: cloud, Data and AI, autonomy, Mission Partner Environments, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT.
  • Ability to develop architectures spanning applications, platforms, infrastructure, data, identity, cybersecurity, integration, and operations.
  • Working knowledge of DoD security, accreditation, Zero Trust, data governance, interoperability, and classified environments.
  • Executive communication skills and the ability to simplify complex issues for decision-makers without losing technical rigor.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization and operating decisively in ambiguous environments.
  • Ability to travel as required.
  • Active security clearance at the appropriate level, with eligibility to obtain additional accesses.
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