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Enterprise Architect SME

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Washington, DC, United States
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We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Enterprise Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns enterprise architecture direction across business, data, application, security, and technology domains. You will be setting target-state architecture and modernization priorities, to running architecture governance and review processes, to ensuring the architecture repository and modeling practice stay current and adopted across the organization.

This is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to work in real architecture artifacts and drive real decisions, not just set direction from a distance.

This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture Vision & Strategy

  • Assess and continuously improve the enterprise architecture framework to support the organization's mission, business, and IT objectives.
  • Define target-state architecture direction and cross-domain integration priorities across business, data, application, security, and technology.
  • Set modernization priorities and connect strategic architecture direction to practical, implementable designs.

2. As-Is, To-Be & Transition Architecture

  • Develop and maintain current-state (As-Is), target-state (To-Be), and transition architectures across business, data, application, security, and technology domains at appropriate physical, logical, solution, and technical levels.
  • Maintain architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, technology standards, inventories, and roadmaps.

3. Governance & Review Leadership

  • Operate or support the Architecture Review Board, investment reviews, engineering reviews, design reviews, working groups, and phase-gate reviews with clear intake, criteria, decisions, and records.
  • Evaluate proposed architectural deviations, document risks and impacts, and provide recommendations for approval.
  • Serve as a senior architecture voice in governance forums, working directly with leadership stakeholders.

4. Architecture Assessment & Modernization

  • Perform architecture assessments to identify gaps, redundancy, technical debt, and opportunities for modernization, standardization, optimization, and rationalization.
  • Provide recommendations for technology modernization, application rationalization, cloud adoption, and process improvement based on architecture analysis.

5. Repository & Modeling Practice

  • Administer and improve the enterprise architecture modeling suite (repository, models, metamodel guidance, quality rules, permissions, and workflows).
  • Drive artifact inventory, remediation, migration, quality validation, training, and adoption across the organization.

6. Stakeholder Coordination & Reporting

  • Coordinate architecture activities with cybersecurity, data management, cloud, infrastructure, application development, and portfolio management stakeholders.
  • Prepare and deliver periodic reports summarizing architecture activities, compliance status, risks, modernization initiatives, and progress toward the target architecture.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture, including significant responsibility for architecture governance, standards, and cross-domain design decisions.
  • Demonstrated experience developing or governing As-Is, To-Be, transition, domain, solution, and technical architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with architecture review boards, compliance reviews, deviations/waivers, standards, roadmaps, and decision records.
  • Proven ability to connect strategic architecture direction to practical designs, implementation gates, technical debt remediation, and modernization actions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to both technical teams and leadership.
  • U.S. Citizenship Required.

Nice to Have

  • Direct federal, government, or large regulated-enterprise architecture experience.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture modeling and repository tools (e.g., Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate) — administration, modeling, migration, or adoption.
  • TOGAF, FEAF, DoDAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, SysML, or comparable framework/modeling credentials.
  • Experience establishing measurable architecture governance that accelerates decisions rather than producing ceremonial reviews.
  • Experience with repository remediation, metamodels, taxonomy, reference architectures, or application rationalization.

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Referral program
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance
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