Overview DecisionPoint seeks an
Enterprise Architect (Applications) to design, govern, and maintain enterprise application architecture patterns across a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This senior role owns reference architectures, shared service frameworks, and design standards for web applications, case management systems, enterprise CMS integrations, and application-level service components.
The Enterprise Architect (Applications) partners closely with product teams, cloud architects, API architects, cybersecurity leadership, and development teams to ensure application ecosystems are secure, scalable, interoperable, and aligned with enterprise modernization goals and DoD technical requirements.
This position is fully remote.
Duties & Responsibilities The Enterprise Architect (Applications) will:
- Own and maintain enterprise reference architectures for web applications, case management systems, CMS integrations, and shared service components.
- Develop and enforce architectural patterns that support scalability, maintainability, and IL5 security compliance.
- Oversee application interoperability design, integration standards, and API alignment.
- Collaborate with cloud architects to ensure application architectures work seamlessly within AWS GovCloud IL5-hosted environments.
- Define modernization pathways for legacy applications, including migrations, redesigns, and refactoring.
- Align application design decisions with Zero Trust requirements, RMF controls, and cybersecurity standards.
- Lead architecture reviews for new features, platform enhancements, and enterprise system upgrades.
- Produce architecture diagrams, component models, sequence flows, and technical reference materials.
- Support enterprise portfolio management by mapping applications to capabilities, data flows, and shared services.
- Evaluate vendor tools, frameworks, and technologies for alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
- Facilitate technical working groups, architecture review boards, and cross-team design sessions.
- Ensure consistent architectural alignment across development, integration, data, and infrastructure teams.
Qualifications Clearance Requirement Must hold an
active Top Secret clearance, supported by a
Tier 5 background investigation.
Education (Required) Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience (Required) - Minimum 10 years of experience designing and governing enterprise application architectures.
- Experience developing reference architectures and design patterns for web apps, case management systems, CMS integrations, or shared services.
- Experience supporting enterprise modernization efforts across federal or DoD mission environments.
- Experience working across application, data, integration, and cloud architecture domains.
Technical Knowledge (Required) - Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture, modular design, and shared services.
- Knowledge of cloud architectures, preferably AWS GovCloud IL5.
- Experience with CMS platforms, case management frameworks, and enterprise web application stacks.
- Knowledge of integration patterns, API ecosystems, and microservices architectures.
- Understanding of DoD cybersecurity requirements, Zero Trust principles, and RMF-aligned controls.
Technical Knowledge (Preferred) - Experience with TOGAF or similar enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Familiarity with microservices, containerization, and event-driven systems.
- Experience with application portfolio analysis and modernization assessments.
Certifications Required: Preferred: - AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- TOGAF or other enterprise architecture certifications
- CISSP or other senior cybersecurity certifications
Skills - Strong architectural leadership and strategic planning ability.
- Excellent communication skills for cross-team coordination and stakeholder engagement.
- High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline.
- Ability to evaluate, modernize, and align application ecosystems at enterprise scale.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities in complex, multi-system environments.
Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy - EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
- Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
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