Enterprise Architect (Applications)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Clearance Requirement
- Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
- Education (Required)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience designing and governing enterprise application architectures.
- ITIL v4 Foundation
Nice to have
- AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
Full description
Overview
DecisionPoint seeks an Enterprise Architect (Applications) to design, govern, and maintain enterprise application architecture patterns across a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This senior role owns reference architectures, shared service frameworks, and design standards for web applications, case management systems, enterprise CMS integrations, and application-level service components.
The Enterprise Architect (Applications) partners closely with product teams, cloud architects, API architects, cybersecurity leadership, and development teams to ensure application ecosystems are secure, scalable, interoperable, and aligned with enterprise modernization goals and DoD technical requirements.
This position is fully remote.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Enterprise Architect (Applications) will:
- Own and maintain enterprise reference architectures for web applications, case management systems, CMS integrations, and shared service components.
- Develop and enforce architectural patterns that support scalability, maintainability, and IL5 security compliance.
- Oversee application interoperability design, integration standards, and API alignment.
- Collaborate with cloud architects to ensure application architectures work seamlessly within AWS GovCloud IL5-hosted environments.
- Define modernization pathways for legacy applications, including migrations, redesigns, and refactoring.
- Align application design decisions with Zero Trust requirements, RMF controls, and cybersecurity standards.
- Lead architecture reviews for new features, platform enhancements, and enterprise system upgrades.
- Produce architecture diagrams, component models, sequence flows, and technical reference materials.
- Support enterprise portfolio management by mapping applications to capabilities, data flows, and shared services.
- Evaluate vendor tools, frameworks, and technologies for alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
- Facilitate technical working groups, architecture review boards, and cross-team design sessions.
- Ensure consistent architectural alignment across development, integration, data, and infrastructure teams.
Qualifications
Clearance Requirement
Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
Education (Required)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.