Lead Principal Enterprise Architect

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Lead Principal Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise architecture and hands-on technical leadership for our clients AI-enabled Supply Operations Center. This role will develop scalable target architecture while actively supporting data engineering platform configuration cloud integration and technical problem-solving. The Lead Principal Enterprise Architect will work closely with program leadership cybersecurity business transformation and supply chain teams to translate operational needs into integrated technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture and Modernization
  • Own the As-Is and To-Be Enterprise Architecture connecting our clients mission outcomes with transformed supply chain business processes data applications cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities.
  • Lead application portfolio rationalization to identify redundancy technical debt consolidation opportunities and transition pathways from legacy systems.
• Data AI and Platform Engineering
  • Architect and build ETL/ELT pipelines and perform core database administration activities to extract transform and stage legacy supply chain and contracting production data into Yellowbrick or equivalent massively parallel processing databases across Development and Production environments.
  • Design and implement the AI-ready data foundation enterprise semantic layer and vector data store.
  • Architect and operationalize model training evaluation and inference pipelines using AWS SageMaker and supporting AI Squared UNIFI capabilities including retrieval-augmented generation and model-grounding pipelines.
  • Support engineering teams with installation configuration validation and troubleshooting of the application platform stack including AI Squared UNIFI Mendix Yellowbrick Vector Store and RegScale within AWS GovCloud and Linux runtime environments.
• Technical Delivery and Integration
  • Maintain end-to-end technical continuity across program phases including hands-on configuration of priority operational roles AI agent workflows and Supply Operations Center dashboards.
  • Address technical execution gaps across data modeling Linux administration API integration cloud networking and related areas when engineering teams encounter delivery constraints.
• Cybersecurity and Authorization Support
  • Partner with the ISSE/ISSO team to provide architectural models interface control documents system boundary specifications and other technical inputs required to support IATT IATO and full ATO submissions.
  • Carry out other related duties as assigned to support evolving client project and company needs.

Clearance Level:

• Current or ability to obtain a Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret Clearance is required.Note: To obtain a security clearance you must be a U.S. citizen and meet the 13 adjudicative guidelines.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience:
  • 12 years of progressive IT/systems experience with 6 years in a dedicated Enterprise Architecture role.
  • 3 years leading an Enterprise Architecture practice Center of Excellence or technical delivery team.
• Education/Certification:
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related technical field.
  • Current CompTIA Security CE certification or higher or ability to obtain the required certification within the first two weeks of the start date.
  • Current certification in at least one of the following operating system/Linux certifications:
    • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
    • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
    • CompTIA Linux
    • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
  • Skills:
    • Demonstrated hands-on experience with application portfolio rationalization and legacy system modernization in federal or DoD environments.
    • Experience applying enterprise architecture frameworks such as EACOE/BACOE TOGAF Zachman or DoDAF.
    • Strong hands-on experience with database administration and the design and execution of enterprise ETL/ELT data pipelines data products and semantic knowledge layers.
    • Demonstrated experience with massively parallel processing data warehouses such as Yellowbrick Snowflake Amazon Redshift Teradata or Greenplum.
    • Practical experience architecting and integrating AI/ML workflows including AWS SageMaker model training tuning and endpoint deployment; retrieval-augmented generation; model training; agentic AI; and vector database technologies.
    • Hands-on architecture and deployment experience in AWS GovCloud environments including AWS SageMaker AWS Glue Amazon API Gateway S3 EC2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Amazon Linux.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Practical experience or technical familiarity with Mendix or similar low-code application platforms.
• Prior DoD supply chain/logistics weapon-systems sustainment or Fleet readiness experience including environments such as DoD ERP One Touch Support CAV or STARS.
• TOGAF 9/10 Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect or EACOE certification.
• Masters degree in a relevant technical or business field.
• Experience with DoDAF architecture.

Location & Commitments:

• Position: Full Time
• Work Arrangement: Remote
• Travel Requirements: May be required
• Location Preference: Prefer candidates who reside in the Eastern Time Zone or who can work Eastern Time Zone business hours to ensure alignment with client schedules and team collaboration.
• Work Hours: A typical workday consists of eight hours totaling a forty-hour workweek. We understand that there may be times when employees will need to adjust their work hours due to client needs or personal reasons. To help balance these demands we offer some flexibility in work schedules.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and discretionary bonuses.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical dental and vision insurance.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Hybrid/remote work arrangement with flexible hours.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Employee recognition programs and company events.

JMA Resources is an equal opportunity employer committed to achieving a workforce with an environment free of discrimination and harassment. All aspects of employment including recruitment hiring promotions transfers discipline terminations wage and salary administration benefits and training are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race age color physical or mental disability religion gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression marital status national origin political affiliation or protected veteran status.

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