Enterprise Architect
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Job Description
Responsibilities & Qualifications
The Department of Commerce (DOC) has a wide range of responsibilities in the areas of trade economic development technology entrepreneurship and business development environmental stewardship and statistical research and analysis. The Commerce Department is also the principal defender and champion of the digital economy. Within the Department of Commerce the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the Executive Branch agency principally responsible by law for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy issues. NTIAs activities are focused on a broad range of issues at the intersection of telecommunications information technology and media policy.
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for designing and managing secure scalable and cost effective cloud solutionsprimarily in Microsoft Azurethat align with agency strategy and
federal compliance mandates. This includes leading Azure platform engineering efforts such as configuring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Policy and secure landing zones;
implementing governance through RBAC and tagging; and integrating Zero Trust security principles. The role also involves optimizing cloud spend supporting hybrid cloud integration
and collaborating across IT security and DevOps teams to modernize infrastructure and ensure operational resilience. Additionally the architect defines information requirements for
infrastructure-as-code using Terraform ensuring visibility into cloud assets enforcing tagging for cost and compliance tracking integrating with security tools and automating secure
policy-compliant deployments across environments.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze cloud spending identify trends and develop strategies to optimize and reduce costs.
- Create and maintain budgets for cloud services. Forecast future costs based on trends and
organizational growth.
- Evaluate and select Azure services (e.g. Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Functions Azure
Policy) to support enterprise workloads.
- Work closely with NTIA ITD to understand their cloud needs and ensure alignment with the
budget.
- Collaborate with security operations to embed Zero Trust principles identity governance and
threat protection into cloud designs.
- Ensure compliance with federal mandates (e.g. FedRAMP NIST 800-53 EO 14028 CNSSI
1253) and internal security policies.
- Design secure landing zones using Azure and Policy.
- Implement Azure governance models including management groups role-based access
control (RBAC) and tagging strategies.
- Monitor and optimize cloud spend using Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor.
- Architect solutions that leverage cloud-native services while integrating with on-prem
systems (hybrid cloud).
- Work closely with DevOps security and infrastructure teams to ensure architectural
consistency.
- Provide architectural oversight for cloud migration and modernization projects.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in information technology Computer Science or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Cloud Architecture and Cyber Security.
- Cloud Architecture/Engineer or similar certification.
- Contractor should possess Secret Clearance or higher
Overview
We are seeking a Enterprise Architect to support Department of Commerce (DOC) in Washington D.C.
TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. Technology moving at the speed of thought embodies these principles the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.
We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health dental vision 401K life insurance short-term and long-term disability plans vacation time and holidays.
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Additional Job Information
WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Location: onsite- Herbert C. Hoover Building 1401 Constitution Avenue NW. Washington D.C.
- Type of environment: onsite
- Noise level: Medium
- Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
- Amount of Travel: Less than 25%
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle feel touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE
Clearance requied: SECRET
OTHER INFORMATION
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
TekSynap is a drug-free workplace. We reserve the right to conduct drug testing in accordance with federal state and local laws. All employees and candidates may be subject to drug screening if deemed necessary to ensure a safe and compliant working environment.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
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TekSynap is committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an application please contactfor assistance.
Employment Type
Full-Time
