Enterprise Architect

Herndon, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Herndon VA NYC NY NJ

Duration: / Term: FTE

Job Description:

Experience Desired: 12 Years

1. Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision principles and roadmaps aligned with business goals.
- Apply architectural best practices across infrastructure applications data and integration layers.
- Ensure compliance with security governance and regulatory standards.
- Stay current with emerging trends including AI CI/CD DevOps cloud-native architectures and modernization patterns.

2. Cloud Modernization & Migration Leadership

- Lead on-prem to cloud cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud transformation programs.
- Design enterprise-scale architectures across IaaS PaaS and SaaS platforms (primarily AWS; Azure experience a plus).
- Define and implement repeatable migration frameworks playbooks and reference architectures.
- Drive assessment workshops discovery sessions and immersion days to evaluate customer environments.

3. Stakeholder & Client Collaboration

- Partner with business leaders IT leadership and solution architects to align architecture with functional and technical needs.
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients advocating cloud adoption and modernization strategies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional architecture teams to ensure consistency and governance across programs.

4. Risk Quality & Governance

- Analyse existing application and technology landscapes for alignment with enterprise and global standards.
- Identify architectural risks and define mitigation strategies.
- Ensure architectural decisions support scalability performance security and cost optimization.

5. Continuous Improvement & Leadership

- Mentor architects and technical teams fostering a culture of innovation quality and excellence.
- Continuously identify opportunities to optimize enterprise architecture processes and tooling.
- Contribute to RFPs proposals and solution design for large transformation programs.

Who you are:

Minimum 14 years of Application Development/ Solution experience.
Strong experience as an Enterprise Architect or Cloud Architect in large-scale environments.
Proficient with TOGAF Zachman or similar enterprise architecture frameworks.
Hands-on experience designing scalable cloud-native architectures including microservices and DevOps practices.
Strong understanding of data privacy security and compliance across regions and industries.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Prior experience in consulting or professional services environments is highly desirable.

Technical Skills:

.Net / Java expertise Microservices architecture AWS cloud native solutions.
EC2 S3 RDS Lambda VPC IAM CloudFormation and CloudFront.

Education:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or related field.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
Additional AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer AWS Certified Security Specialty or AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty are a plus.

Key Skills:

Enterprise Architecture Application Development Cloud migration Microservices

Job Title: Enterprise Architect Location: Herndon VA NYC NY NJ Duration: / Term: FTE Job Description: Experience Desired: 12 Years 1. Enterprise Architecture & Strategy Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision principles and roadmaps aligned with business goals. Apply architectura...