Solution & Systems Integration Architect SME

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Solution & Systems Integration Architect SME

Location:

Hybrid - 2 days a week on-site - DC Regional Area

Salary Range: ,000

We are seeking a highly experienced Solution & Systems Integration Architect Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns end-to-end solution architecture across complex, interdependent systems, translating mission and business requirements into secure, scalable, interoperable, and supportable technical designs.

This is a hands-on architecture role. The Architect will develop detailed architecture views, trade studies, decision artifacts, and implementation-ready designs, while working closely with engineering, cybersecurity, data, network, cloud, mobility, ITSM, and program teams to carry solutions from concept through review, implementation, transition, and operational stabilization.

hybrid position based in Washington, DC. Metro Area U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Translate mission, business, technical, security, and operational requirements into enterprise solution architectures and technical baselines.
• Develop and maintain context, logical, physical, component, interface, integration, deployment, and transition architecture views.
• Apply enterprise standards, approved patterns, shared services, reference architectures, and reusable design approaches.
• Lead and participate in architecture compliance reviews, technical design reviews, and implementation-readiness assessments.
• Conduct trade studies and alternatives analysis involving cloud adoption, modernization, technical debt, application rationalization, interoperability, resiliency, performance, and cost.
• Identify architecture risks associated with interfaces, dependencies, data, security, performance, networks, platforms, and operations.
• Identify lifecycle dependencies and technical risks early enough to prevent impacts to delivery.
• Coordinate across application, cloud, platform, network, cybersecurity, data, identity, mobility, ITSM, and operations teams.
• Resolve cross-domain, cross-vendor, and cross-organizational design conflicts while maintaining program schedules and architectural integrity.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, governance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Support application rationalization, legacy modernization, shared services, and system-of-systems integration efforts.
• Define and validate APIs, interfaces, integration patterns, data exchanges, dependencies, and nonfunctional requirements.
• Support engineering teams during development, testing, deployment, transition, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Maintain architecture decisions, assumptions, deviations, dependencies, interface records, and technical diagrams in approved repositories.
• Develop clear architecture diagrams and decision artifacts and communicate technical tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, customers, and executive stakeholders.

• 12+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years designing, implementing, or governing complex enterprise solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated architecture experience across at least three domains, such as:
  • Application
  • Systems Integration
  • Data
  • Cloud / Platform
  • Network
  • Cybersecurity
  • Identity
  • Endpoint / Mobility
  • ITSM
  • IT Operations
• Strong experience designing and integrating complex, interdependent enterprise systems.
• Experience defining APIs, interfaces, dependencies, nonfunctional requirements, security constraints, and operational requirements.
• Experience leading or participating in architecture and technical design reviews.
• Strong understanding of implementation readiness,…