Enterprise Architect

About the role

We are recruiting for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our team in the Bethesda, Maryland area. You will play a critical role in documenting and shaping our client's IT enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with the client’s vision of driving interoperability across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop an IT enterprise architecture that provides client stakeholders awareness of critical capabilities, dependencies, and mission critical impacts and risks. This includes developing the enterprise architecture baseline – discover and capture the “as-is” state of the client’s IT enterprise as it exists across multiple organizations throughout the enterprise.
• Enterprise Architecture Future State – work in alignment with the client’s vision to capture the “to be” state of the client’s IT enterprise.
• Enterprise Architecture Transition Plan – create the guidance and architecture artifacts to incrementally transition the client’s enterprise architecture from the as-is state to the future state.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including content providers, content consumers, developers, engineers, and business analysts.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Systems Engineer, or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., UAF, TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF).
• Familiarity with Systems Modeling Language (SysML) or Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Model-Based Systems Engineering.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience working with or in the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering tools (e.g., MagicDraw, Rational Rhapsody, Cameo, Genesys, etc.).