Enterprise Architect

McLean, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

The Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in designing and evolving secure scalable and adaptive enterprise architectures across a large regulated organization. This role requires deep expertise in cybersecurity principles architectural modeling and innovative tooling that enables dynamic generation of architecture views based on baseline configurations and security overlays. The ideal candidate will bridge technology domains compliance requirements and business needs to deliver resilient and compliant architectural solutions.

Contributions

Serve as the lead architect for enterprise-wide systems with a focus on secure design and compliance-driven architecture.
Develop and maintain architecture diagrams using advanced modeling tools that support dynamic view generation enabling tailored visualizations based on technology stack domain and applicable cyber overlays.
Leverage architecture diagrams to streamline the development and updates of security packages including System Security Plans (SSPs) POA&Ms and control mappings.
Integrate security requirements into architectural baselines ensuring alignment with frameworks such as NIST FedRAMP and Zero Trust.
Collaborate with cybersecurity cloud DevOps and business teams to ensure architectural integrity and security posture.
Establish and maintain reusable architecture patterns and reference models tailored to regulatory and operational needs.
Support architecture governance processes including reviews documentation and stakeholder engagement.
Evaluate and recommend tooling for automated architecture visualization and compliance mapping.
Lead efforts to modernize legacy systems and align them with enterprise security and cloud strategies.
Provide mentorship and guidance to solution architects and technical leads across portfolios.

Qualifications

Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect in a regulated enterprise environment.
Strong background in cybersecurity architecture risk management and compliance integration.
Proficiency with architecture modeling tools (e.g. ArchiMate C4 Sparx EA or similar) and automation platforms that support dynamic diagram generation.
Deep understanding of security frameworks and overlays (e.g. NIST 800-53 FedRAMP Zero Trust RMF).
Ability to translate complex technical and security requirements into actionable architecture views.
Excellent communication stakeholder engagement and documentation skills.
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Cybersecurity Information Systems or related field preferred.
Certifications such as TOGAF SABSA CISSP or AWS/Azure Architect are a plus.

About steampunk

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .

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OverviewThe Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in designing and evolving secure scalable and adaptive enterprise architectures across a large regulated organization. This role requires deep expertise in cybersecurity principles architectural modeling and innovative tooling that enables d...

Overview

Contributions

Serve as the lead architect for enterprise-wide systems with a focus on secure design and compliance-driven architecture.
Develop and maintain architecture diagrams using advanced modeling tools that support dynamic view generation enabling tailored visualizations based on technology stack domain and applicable cyber overlays.
Leverage architecture diagrams to streamline the development and updates of security packages including System Security Plans (SSPs) POA&Ms and control mappings.
Integrate security requirements into architectural baselines ensuring alignment with frameworks such as NIST FedRAMP and Zero Trust.
Collaborate with cybersecurity cloud DevOps and business teams to ensure architectural integrity and security posture.
Establish and maintain reusable architecture patterns and reference models tailored to regulatory and operational needs.
Support architecture governance processes including reviews documentation and stakeholder engagement.
Evaluate and recommend tooling for automated architecture visualization and compliance mapping.
Lead efforts to modernize legacy systems and align them with enterprise security and cloud strategies.
Provide mentorship and guidance to solution architects and technical leads across portfolios.

Qualifications

Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect in a regulated enterprise environment.
Strong background in cybersecurity architecture risk management and compliance integration.
Proficiency with architecture modeling tools (e.g. ArchiMate C4 Sparx EA or similar) and automation platforms that support dynamic diagram generation.
Deep understanding of security frameworks and overlays (e.g. NIST 800-53 FedRAMP Zero Trust RMF).
Ability to translate complex technical and security requirements into actionable architecture views.
Excellent communication stakeholder engagement and documentation skills.
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Cybersecurity Information Systems or related field preferred.
Certifications such as TOGAF SABSA CISSP or AWS/Azure Architect are a plus.