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# Lead Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** HUNTER
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Architecture, Scaled Agile Framework, Openapi, Togaf, Api Design, Microservices
- **Published:** July 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8713a08c0a3e4fe6

## About the Role

* 10+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience [placeholder: set final bar]
 * Experience establishing enterprise architecture in a new or transforming organization
 * Experience authoring governance frameworks and technical standards for consumption by development teams
 * Experience working in a SAFe environment, including architectural runway planning
 * Experience operating across organizational boundaries, with development teams that report elsewhere
 * Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination

Preferred

 * TOGAF or comparable enterprise architecture certification
 * Experience supporting federal civilian or defense programs, particularly multi-contractor environments
 * Familiarity with microservices and API-first architectures, including OpenAPI and gRPC
 * Experience reviewing designs produced by teams the architect does not manage

## Description

Hunter Strategy is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect at the subject matter expert level to support a new, greenfield mission with a large federal civilian agency. You will join a team of architects and engineers to stand up an enterprise architecture, building the architectural runway and authoring the baseline architecture, governance, and standards artifacts that a large number of development teams in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment will build against.

What You Will Do

 * Build the architectural runway for a greenfield federal program in a SAFe environment
 * Author the baseline enterprise architecture, governance framework, and technical standards artifacts during the base period
 * Work alongside the Solution Architect and Senior Data Architect to determine the enterprise architecture for the program
 * Stand up the architecture governance that development team designs and release artifacts are reviewed against
 * Maintain the enterprise architecture, governance, and standards artifacts as living Work Products across the option periods
 * Review development team designs for architectural alignment and report findings with clear, actionable recommendations, This position is contingent upon contract award, with a tentative start date of September 1, 2026. The role is full-time during the program's establishment period and steps to a half-time commitment on this program thereafter. Work is remote-first; occasional onsite support in Washington, DC may be coordinated with the Government. Hunter Strategy is an equal opportunity employer.


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