Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architect will lead the architectural vision, design, and technical oversight for solutions aligned to the VA's mission, with a strong emphasis on modernizing and integrating into legacy VBA/VHA/Vista/Oracle Health connected systems. This role requires extensive experience with VA architecture patterns, data flows, authentication environments, and system interoperability challenges. The architect will directly support requirements aligned to opportunities associated with VA, including solutions for proposal responses and hands on post-award work.

In this role, the architect will define and govern solution, data, and workflow architectures that support secure user experiences, streamlined operational processes, and reliable integration across platforms. They will guide the creation of technical documentation, system specifications, testing frameworks, and compliance materials, ensuring that all artifacts meet federal and VA standards while supporting strong performance, scalability, and security postures.

The Architect will collaborate closely with cross functional teams including development, cybersecurity, product, and UX, and will regularly engage VA stakeholders to validate technical assumptions and refine solution approaches. They will provide expert insight into modernization strategies, integration needs, and architectural best practices that help deliver comprehensive, high-quality solutions across the VA ecosystem.

Through strong technical expertise, this role will help ensure that the VA's modernization and integration of its healthcare systems advance veteran centric care, improve efficiency, and deliver meaningful benefits across the entire VA community., Enterprise Architecture & System Modernization

• Demonstrate your deep knowledge of current and integrated VA systems and apply that expertise to meaningfully inform and strengthen the solutioning for our opportunity.

• Develop and deliver recommended approaches to solving for technical and operational solutions.

• Bring forward your expertise in knowledge with current and integrated VA systems and show that you understand them and use that knowledge to contribute to the solutioning or our opportunity.

• Develop enterprise-level architecture for VA-focused digital solutions, ensuring full alignment with specified requirements, deliverables, and performance objectives.

• Lead the modernization and integration of VA legacy systems, including but not limited to Vista, VBMS, CAPRI, eMASS, and other VA proprietary applications.

Workflow, Solutions, and Data Architecture

• Architect solutions enabling multi-user portals with secure authentication frameworks.

• Review and design data models, metadata structures, and standardized data delivery formats for DBQ submissions as outlined in the PWS optional tasks.

• Develop architecture supporting workflow queues, status tracking, escalations, and validation rules consistent with PWS system design expectations.

Technical Documentation & Compliance

• Oversee production of system design documentation, technical specs, test plans, scalability testing artifacts, remediation trackers, and transition plans.

• Support architectural inputs to eMASS documentation and participation in ATO-related stewardship reviews.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Provide architectural guidance to development, cybersecurity, UX, and product teams to ensure cohesive solution delivery.

• Engage with VA stakeholders to validate technical assumptions, clarify data integration needs, and refine solution approaches.

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Health Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Computer Science, Information System, Biomedical Engineering (or a closely related discipline)

• Master Degree in Health Informatics, Nursing Informatics, Information Systems, or Business Administration (preferred)

Experience Required:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture supporting federal health or VA/VHA/VBA systems.

• Demonstrated working knowledge of VA legacy systems, including architecture, data flows, dependencies, and constraints.

• Proven experience developing architectures aligned with detailed PWS requirements, especially in areas such as:

• System design reviews,

• Data model reviews,

• Performance and capacity planning,

• Technical specification development.

• Familiarity with FedRAMP, and VA cybersecurity requirements including work products executed through eMASS.

• Experience designing user-facing portals and backend integration workflows, consistent with portal requirements discussed in VA solution meetings.

Competencies:

• Systems thinking and enterprise architecture modeling

• Deep understanding of VA technical landscapes

• Strong documentation and compliance-driven mindset

• Ability to translate complex PWS requirements into clear architectural direction

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

All applicants must be US citizens and able to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Edera participates in the E-Verify program. Edera is a drug-free workplace.

APPLICANTS MUST HAVE VA AND/OR DOD/VA EXPERIENCE - Active federal clearance or ability to obtain

Type of Employment: Full-time, W2

Work Location/Travel: Expected 50% travel required; applicants must be free from travel restrictions to accommodate evolving needs of the client.

Salary Range: $132,000 - $159,000 (Indeed -Cerner Software Architect) annually (W2, based on education, experience, and geographic location). Competitive salary/pay, potential for bonus. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is highly competitive but dependent upon employment type (1099, contract, W2).

Edera L3C is a fast-growing healthcare consultancy that addresses today's issues and helps create tomorrow's solutions by connecting the brightest minds in healthcare. Our team of management, technology, and creative services consultants work collaboratively with industry experts who bring deep experience and expertise to create transformational business solutions. We believe complex challenges and multi-faceted opportunities call for multi-disciplinary approaches and that's how we work. We transform healthcare by bringing industry best practices from the private sector to the public sector, and the public sector to the private sector. Edera is an L3C (a variation of a limited liability company) that places "purpose before profit;" a social enterprise venture. This means we are focused on a socially beneficial mission to transform organizations rather than being driven to maximize income. Profits beyond our business sustainability goals are reinvested into communities or clients.