Enterprise Architect

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We are currently seeking a Enterprise Architect to join our team in Rockville, Maryland (US-MD), United States (US).

As the Enterprise Architect for Platform Hosting, you will provide architectural leadership across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. You will play a critical role in translating mission and business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost‑effective infrastructure architectures that align with Federal government standards and support long‑term modernization.

• Lead architecture and technical design for enterprise and platform hosting environments across on‑premise, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures.
• Define and guide hosting solutions across core infrastructure domains, including compute, virtualization, application and database hosting, storage, networking, and cloud platforms.
• Design and evolve secure, scalable cloud architectures and hybrid connectivity models that support enterprise workloads and operational requirements.
• Support migration and modernization initiatives, including transitions from on‑premise to cloud environments and adoption of modern hosting architectures.
• Establish and govern infrastructure automation and Dev Sec Ops  practices to support consistent, repeatable, and secure platform deployments.
• Provide architectural guidance for containerized and platform‑based hosting solutions supporting modern application delivery.
• Support integration of specialized compute environments used in research and data‑intensive workloads, as applicable.
• Develop and maintain architectural standards, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps to ensure consistency, security, and lifecycle alignment across hosting services.
• Collaborate with program management, service delivery leads, and engineering teams to translate architectural designs into implementable, operational solutions.
• Advise leadership on architectural tradeoffs, technical risk, capacity considerations, and modernization priorities.

• Bachelor’s degree, or four (4) years of work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture roles supporting US Federal Government clients.
• Minimum 5 years of experience architecting enterprise‑scale infrastructure and hosting solutions in medium to large environments.
• Minimum 3 years of experience designing and supporting cloud and hybrid architectures, including migration and modernization of on‑premise environments.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust.
• Must live within 60 miles of the client site in Rockville, MD.

• Experience establishing and governing Dev Sec Ops  and infrastructure automation practices, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code approaches.
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle principles and their integration with infrastructure and platform services.
• Experience with container‑based platforms and modern application hosting architectures.
• Familiarity with specialized or data‑intensive computing environments, such as research or high‑performance computing platforms, as applicable.
• Relevant professional certifications may include, but are not limited to:
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)
  • ITIL 4 Managing Professional
  • PMP
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer
  • VMware VCDX-DCV
  • Cisco CCNP
  • Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting architectural recommendations to senior government and executive leadership

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