Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

TIAG is now hiring an Enterprise Architect to lead ONR's end-to-end system and technology architecture. This full time role supports our program at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA. This is a position that is 100% onsite (5 days/week at the ONR in Arlington). This position requires a Secret clearance to be able to start work. US or Naturalized Citizenship are a requirement for eligibility.

Strategic Leadership & Modernization:

• Serve as principal technical advisor to program leadership and government stakeholders, presenting transformation strategies, trade-offs, and investment recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging DoD, Navy, and commercial technologies for security, scalability, feasibility, and operational impact within the ONR environment.

Architecture & DoDAF Governance:

• Author and maintain DoDAF-compliant artifacts (OV/SV), network diagrams, workflows, and current/future-state architecture models under strict configuration control.
• Analyze cross-domain dependencies across business processes, applications, data, systems, and network infrastructure.

Infrastructure & Systems Engineering:

• Provide architectural guidance across cloud environments, virtualization, Microsoft/database technologies, enterprise networking, and ONR's Network/Security Operations Center (NSOC).
• Lead technical design for system migrations, infrastructure consolidations, tech refreshes, and complex enterprise troubleshooting.

AWS Cloud & Systems Engineering:

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud architectures tailored to DoD environments and mission objectives.
• Lead application migration, modernization, and integration within AWS, enterprise networks, virtualization platforms, and ONR's Network/Security Operations Center (NSOC).
• Provide technical design for system consolidations, tech refreshes, and complex enterprise troubleshooting.

Cybersecurity & Operations:

• Partner with cybersecurity and Information Assurance teams to align all solutions with DoD security requirements and Authority to Operate (ATO) objectives.
• Establish enterprise standards, technical design principles, and engineering documentation (specifications, white papers, SOPs) across classified and unclassified environments.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in architecture design, including enterprise and/or systems architecture within complex IT environments.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in software engineering and IT architecture design and implementation.
• Minimum 5 years of experience performing technical analysis and producing documentation identifying interdependencies among processes, technologies, applications, systems, and data.
• Minimum 2 years of experience developing and maintaining System and Enterprise Architecture views and supporting artifacts using the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture diagrams, system views, operational views, technical architecture documentation, and workflows.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including networking, servers, virtualization, storage, identity management, databases, and enterprise applications.
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining AWS cloud architectures in support of DoD environments.
• Experience evaluating and recommending enterprise hardware, software, infrastructure, and technology solutions.
• Experience designing or supporting highly available, secure, scalable enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity architecture and DoD security requirements.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, cybersecurity, operations, application, and Government stakeholder teams.
• Strong technical writing skills with demonstrated experience developing architecture documentation, technical specifications, implementation documentation, and engineering recommendations.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts and architectures into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Active Secret security clearance