Senior Enterprise Architect

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Posted:
June 25, 2026

The Senior Enterprise Architect leads the structural definition, design, baseline mapping, and evolution of the Air Force Intelligence Community (AF IC) Information Environment. Because the Chief Data Officer (CDO) dual-hats as the AF ISR Enterprise Architect, this senior position serves as a cross-cutting resource providing critical architectural blueprints across the entire HAF A2 portfolio
-directly supporting the shared equities of the CDO, CIO, CTO, and Authorizing Official (AO). The role is responsible for translating complex mission and business requirements into standard technology configurations, establishing interoperability guidelines, defining domain ontologies, and generating high-level strategic diagrams to ensure the Air Force maintains a decisive war fighting advantage across NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS domains.

• Work Location:
  
  [Hybrid
  - Colorado Denver/Colorado Springs or National Capital Region (NCR)]
• Security Clearance: [TS/SCI]
• Travel Requirements: [TDY’s as required by the Government]

Karthik Consulting is committed to providing competitive compensation based on the responsibilities of the role, required qualifications, security clearance level, relevant experience, certifications, customer requirements, geographic location, and overall business needs. The salary range listed for this position represents a good‑faith estimate of the current compensation range for this role.

At Karthik Consulting, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range. Final compensation decisions are based on the facts and circumstances of each candidate’s experience, qualifications, certifications, clearance level, contract requirements, and overall alignment with the role.

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $180,000 to $200,000 annually
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Employees may be eligible for company benefits and additional compensation programs, subject to company policy, contract requirements, and individual eligibility.

This role supports the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Digital Infrastructure Transformation. The mission focuses on modernizing, designing, and sustaining an integrated digital environment that transitions from historical hardware-based industrial constraints to software-defined digital processes. This modern enterprise architecture interconnects physical and virtual technologies across Data and Analytics, Sense‑Making, Automation, Augmentation, and Artificial Intelligence (AAA), Hybrid/Multi‑Cloud environments, Networks, and Zero Trust security frameworks to safely deliver intelligence to warfighters at the speed of relevance.

The role operates within the operational oversight of the AF IC Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Data Officer (CDO), IT Risk Management Framework Authorizing Official (AO), and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The work spans the entire spectrum of Air Force ISR Information Environment operations, encompassing strategic management, policy and instruction updates, capability portfolio management, and data sharing governance across NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS infrastructures.

• Lead the development, alignment, and long-term maintenance of a common enterprise architecture consisting of business process, information, data, application, and technology layers.
• Create, update, and maintain key architectural models, baseline descriptions, and target-state definitions that align cleanly with overarching Department of the Air Force (DAF), DoD, and IC strategies.
• Represent the different building blocks making up the enterprise, detailing their interrelationships and the structural design principles guiding their evolution over time.
• Define precise technical requirements for taxonomy, standards, guidelines, procedures, templates, and architectural tools to improve organizational agility and promote component re-use.
• Update strategic-level diagrams of the AF IC Information Environment architecture to visually…