Enterprise Architect

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:

• Bachelor's 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