LocationWashington, District of Columbia, United States
Work modehybrid
Typefull-time
DepartmentCENSUS
Company size11+ people
First seen1w ago
Last seen1d ago
About the role
We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Solution & Systems Integration Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns end-to-end solution architecture across complex, interdependent systems, translating mission and business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable technical designs, and carrying those designs through review, implementation, and operational transition.
This is a hands-on architecture role. You’ll be expected to produce real architecture views and decision artifacts, not just set direction from a distance.
This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Key Responsibilities
1. Solution Architecture & Design
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Translate mission and business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable architectures and technical baselines.
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Develop and review context, logical, physical, component, interface, deployment, integration, and transition views at the level required for decisions and implementation.
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Apply approved patterns, common services, reference architectures, and reusable design approaches.
2. Design Reviews & Trade Studies
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Lead or participate in architecture compliance reviews, technical design reviews, and implementation-readiness reviews.
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Conduct trade studies and analyze alternatives involving cloud adoption, modernization, technical debt, rationalization, interoperability, resilience, and cost.
3. Risk Identification
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Identify interface, dependency, performance, security, data, platform, network, and operational risks early in the design process.
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Flag lifecycle risks and dependencies before they affect delivery.
4. Cross-Domain Coordination
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Coordinate engineers and specialists across platform, network, security, data, mobility, and ITSM teams to align architecture with delivery.
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Resolve cross-vendor and cross-organizational design conflicts under fixed milestones.
5. Compliance & Rationalization
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Ensure designs align with enterprise architecture standards, governance, and compliance requirements.
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Support application rationalization and legacy modernization efforts.
6. Transition & Documentation
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Support problem resolution during testing, deployment, transition, operations, and post-implementation stabilization.
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Maintain architecture decisions, deviations, assumptions, dependencies, diagrams, and interface records in approved repositories.
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Produce clear diagrams and decision artifacts, and explain tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
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12+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years designing or governing complex enterprise solutions.
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Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
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Demonstrated architecture experience across at least three of the following domains: application, integration, data, cloud/platform, network, cybersecurity, endpoint/mobility, identity, ITSM, or operations.
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Experience with interfaces/APIs, dependencies, nonfunctional requirements, security and operational constraints, technical reviews, and implementation readiness.
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Ability to create clear diagrams and decision artifacts and explain tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, and executives.
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U.S. Citizenship Required.
Nice to Have
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Direct federal, government, or large-scale system-of-systems modernization experience.
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Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate, ArchiMate, UML, SysML, BPMN, or equivalent modeling tools/notations.
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Cloud, integration, architecture, or systems-engineering certifications.
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Experience with shared services, platform engineering, event/API integration, application rationalization, legacy modernization, and zero-trust-aligned designs.
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Experience resolving cross-vendor or cross-organizational design conflicts under fixed milestones.