Enterprise Architect (Senior)

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks an Enterprise Architect to provide senior architectural and systems-engineering leadership for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This position develops concepts of operations, conducts technical trade studies, decomposes mission needs into actionable system requirements, defines interface requirements, develops scalable architecture approaches, and provides technical inputs for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates.

The Enterprise Architect evaluates current and target-state architectures across software, data, cloud, infrastructure, integration, security, and operations. The architect ensures proposed solutions are secure, interoperable, extensible, scalable, resilient, supportable, and aligned with USMEPCOM mission priorities and applicable Federal and DoD standards.

This position works closely with Government mission owners, software and systems engineers, cybersecurity personnel, cloud and infrastructure teams, data teams, technical leads, Agile delivery teams, testers, configuration managers, operations personnel, and program leadership.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Occasional travel or on-site participation may be required for architecture workshops, planning sessions, design reviews, or Government briefings.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Enterprise Architect will:

• Lead enterprise architecture and systems-engineering activities across software, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operational domains.

• Assess current-state systems, architectures, processes, interfaces, capabilities, constraints, risks, and technical debt.

• Develop target-state and transitional architectures aligned with mission objectives and modernization priorities.

• Ensure architecture decisions account for current systems, approved baselines, target environments, planned modernization, and technology-insertion initiatives.

• Develop and update system and enterprise Concepts of Operations.

• Document mission objectives, operating scenarios, stakeholders, users, workflows, system boundaries, external dependencies, constraints, assumptions, and support concepts.

• Facilitate CONOPS workshops with Government stakeholders, mission owners, users, engineers, and operational personnel.

• Translate mission needs and operational concepts into architectural drivers and technical requirements.

• Conduct structured requirements analysis.

• Decompose high-level mission and business needs into functional, product, component, interface, security, data, performance, availability, and operational requirements.

• Develop and review derived requirements needed to support system design, development, integration, testing, deployment, sustainment, and recovery.

• Ensure requirements are complete, unambiguous, actionable, measurable, testable, traceable, feasible, and sufficiently detailed for implementation.

• Maintain traceability among mission needs, CONOPS elements, architecture decisions, requirements, interfaces, designs, test criteria, and delivered capabilities.

• Support development and maintenance of requirements-traceability matrices.

• Define architecture-level acceptance criteria and verification approaches.

• Identify and resolve requirement conflicts, gaps, ambiguities, duplication, and unsupported assumptions.

• Conduct technical analyses and trade studies.

• Evaluate commercial, Government, custom-developed, cloud, platform, infrastructure, data, integration, and security alternatives.

• Compare alternatives using mission fit, technical feasibility, interoperability, security, scalability, performance, resilience, supportability, lifecycle, cost, schedule, licensing, vendor, and operational criteria.

• Document alternatives, evaluation criteria, assumptions, findings, risks, dependencies, and recommendations.

• Identify capability gaps, technology-integration opportunities, modernization options, and reuse opportunities.

• Develop architecture decision records and obtain appropriate stakeholder review and approval.

• Define system, application, service, data, security, deployment, and integration architecture.

• Develop or oversee system context, logical, physical, deployment, data-flow, trust-boundary, sequence, component, and interface diagrams.

• Develop and maintain System Design Documents and architecture-design sections.

• Define architecture patterns, standards, reference models, design principles, and reusable technical approaches.

• Review technical designs for alignment with enterprise architecture, validated requirements, security standards, and operational constraints.

• Define and document external and internal interface requirements.

• Develop or oversee Interface Control Documents and Interface Design Documents.

• Identify interface participants, protocols, data structures, message patterns, authentication methods, dependencies, service levels, error handling, versioning, and ownership.

• Evaluate API, event, batch, file-transfer, database, identity, network, and third-party integration approaches.

• Coordinate interface requirements with application owners, mission partners, external agencies, vendors, and technical teams.

• Ensure interfaces are designed for security, maintainability, observability, backward compatibility, and controlled evolution.

• Develop scalability and extensibility approaches.

• Assess anticipated demand, mission criticality, transaction volume, data growth, concurrency, integration load, and performance requirements.

• Define approaches for horizontal and vertical scaling, elasticity, capacity management, modularity, reuse, and controlled expansion.

• Identify opportunities to reduce or retire unused or excess capacity.

• Ensure architecture supports sustainability, high availability, COOP, backup, recovery, and established service-level requirements.

• Evaluate single points of failure, capacity constraints, resilience gaps, recovery dependencies, and operational risks.

• Define architectural requirements for monitoring, logging, alerting, supportability, fault isolation, and service restoration.

• Develop technical inputs for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates.

• Define architecture scope, assumptions, technical components, environments, interfaces, dependencies, licenses, infrastructure, cloud services, labor considerations, migration activities, testing, security, training, and sustainment needs.

• Coordinate with program and financial personnel to translate technical architecture into defensible ROM assumptions.

• Identify uncertainty, cost drivers, risk allowances, implementation phases, and alternative approaches.

• Develop or review Bills of Materials for required software tools, licenses, cloud services, infrastructure, and development resources.

• Develop modernization roadmaps and transition architectures.

• Define implementation phases, architecture increments, technical dependencies, sequencing, interim states, migration considerations, and retirement activities.

• Support planning for transitions from legacy and on-premises capabilities to approved centralized, cloud, hybrid, or modernized environments.

• Assess migration readiness and identify architecture changes required before transition.

• Support the design, establishment, use, and decommissioning of development, integration, testing, staging, and operational environments.

• Ensure preproduction environments adequately represent interfaces, dependencies, configurations, security controls, performance conditions, and operational constraints.

• Support architecture and design activities within Agile software-development processes.

• Provide architectural guidance during release and Sprint planning, backlog refinement, design, development, integration, testing, and demonstrations.

• Help teams translate architecture requirements into technical user stories, enablers, acceptance criteria, and implementation tasks.

• Maintain an architecture runway supporting current delivery and anticipated mission needs.

• Review Sprint outputs for architecture alignment and identify required corrective or follow-on work.

• Participate in architecture reviews, system-design reviews, interface reviews, security reviews, technical interchange meetings, release-readiness reviews, and demonstrations.

• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to incorporate security architecture, trust boundaries, access controls, data protection, logging, vulnerability management, and applicable RMF controls.

• Ensure architectural solutions account for applicable Federal and DoD software standards and DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides.

• Evaluate security impacts throughout the system lifecycle and document architecture-level risks and mitigations.

• Ensure architecture documentation remains aligned with configuration baselines, approved changes, deployed systems, and operational realities.

• Maintain architecture repositories, diagrams, standards, decision records, models, plans, and supporting documentation.

• Communicate complex architectural concepts through clear technical documents, visual models, briefings, workshops, and recommendations.

• Present architecture options, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

• Provide architecture accomplishments, decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, and modernization status for program reporting.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, systems engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.

• Minimum of ten years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture, systems architecture, systems engineering, solution architecture, software architecture, or a related technical discipline.

• Experience developing enterprise or system Concepts of Operations.

• Experience conducting technical analyses and trade studies.

• Experience decomposing mission or business needs into functional, component, interface, security, performance, and derived requirements.

• Experience defining and documenting system and external-interface requirements.

• Experience supporting complex systems integration across software, data, infrastructure, cloud, network, security, or external systems.

• Experience designing scalable, extensible, resilient, and supportable enterprise solutions.

• Experience developing technical assumptions and inputs for rough-order-of-magnitude estimates.

• Experience developing current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.

• Experience producing or reviewing architecture diagrams, System Design Documents, Interface Control Documents, Interface Design Documents, requirements-traceability records, and architecture decision records.

• Experience communicating architecture decisions, options, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, facilitation, technical-writing, presentation, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:

• CISSP-ISSAP certification.

• CISSP-ISSEP certification.

• A certification formerly recognized for DoD 8570.01-M IASAE Level III and aligned to the applicable current DoD 8140 work role and proficiency level.

• TOGAF certification.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

• Google Professional Cloud Architect.

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification.

• International Council on Systems Engineering certification, such as Certified Systems Engineering Professional.

• Experience supporting Department of Defense enterprise architecture or systems-engineering programs.

• Experience applying DoD Architecture Framework, Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework, or comparable architecture methods.

• Experience with architecture-modeling languages or tools such as ArchiMate, SysML, UML, Cameo, Sparx Enterprise Architect, or comparable platforms.

• Experience with Zero Trust, identity architecture, cloud architecture, DevSecOps, data architecture, API management, or enterprise integration.

• Experience supporting RMF authorization, DISA STIG compliance, COOP, disaster recovery, or mission-resilience planning.

• Experience working with multiple Agile software-development teams.

• ITIL v4 Foundation or higher certification.

Skills and Competencies

• Enterprise and systems architecture.

• CONOPS and operational-concept development.

• Structured requirements analysis and decomposition.

• Technical trade studies and alternative analysis.

• Interface and integration architecture.

• Scalability, extensibility, resilience, and capacity planning.

• Technical estimation and ROM development.

• Current-state, target-state, and transition-roadmap development.

• Architecture governance and design reviews.

• Security architecture and risk analysis.

• Technical modeling, documentation, and visualization.

• Government stakeholder facilitation and executive communication.

• Strong judgment in balancing mission, security, interoperability, cost, schedule, and technical sustainability.

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