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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Enterprise Architect SME - **Company:** Ignite, LLC - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Business Process Model and Notation, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Federal Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Modeling Language, UML, Zachman Framework, Archimate, Technical Debt, Togaf, Data Management, Cloud Migration, DODAF - **Published:** August 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us9d8f828a8c32be1f1c25bf4979438b8d ## About the Role * 12+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture, including significant responsibility for architecture governance, standards, and cross-domain design decisions. * Demonstrated experience developing or governing As-Is, To-Be, transition, domain, solution, and technical architectures. * Hands-on experience with architecture review boards, compliance reviews, deviations/waivers, standards, roadmaps, and decision records. * Proven ability to connect strategic architecture direction to practical designs, implementation gates, technical debt remediation, and modernization actions. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to both technical teams and leadership. * U.S. Citizenship Required. Nice to Have * Direct federal, government, or large regulated-enterprise architecture experience. * Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture modeling and repository tools (e.g., Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate) - administration, modeling, migration, or adoption. * TOGAF, FEAF, DoDAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, SysML, or comparable framework/modeling credentials. * Experience establishing measurable architecture governance that accelerates decisions rather than producing ceremonial reviews. * Experience with repository remediation, metamodels, taxonomy, reference architectures, or application rationalization. ## Description We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Enterprise Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns enterprise architecture direction across business, data, application, security, and technology domains. You will be setting target-state architecture and modernization priorities, to running architecture governance and review processes, to ensuring the architecture repository and modeling practice stay current and adopted across the organization. This is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to work in real architecture artifacts and drive real decisions, not just set direction from a distance. This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens., 1. Architecture Vision & Strategy * Assess and continuously improve the enterprise architecture framework to support the organization's mission, business, and IT objectives. * Define target-state architecture direction and cross-domain integration priorities across business, data, application, security, and technology. * Set modernization priorities and connect strategic architecture direction to practical, implementable designs. 2. As-Is, To-Be & Transition Architecture * Develop and maintain current-state (As-Is), target-state (To-Be), and transition architectures across business, data, application, security, and technology domains at appropriate physical, logical, solution, and technical levels. * Maintain architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, technology standards, inventories, and roadmaps. 3. Governance & Review Leadership * Operate or support the Architecture Review Board, investment reviews, engineering reviews, design reviews, working groups, and phase-gate reviews with clear intake, criteria, decisions, and records. * Evaluate proposed architectural deviations, document risks and impacts, and provide recommendations for approval. * Serve as a senior architecture voice in governance forums, working directly with leadership stakeholders. 4. Architecture Assessment & Modernization * Perform architecture assessments to identify gaps, redundancy, technical debt, and opportunities for modernization, standardization, optimization, and rationalization. * Provide recommendations for technology modernization, application rationalization, cloud adoption, and process improvement based on architecture analysis. 5. Repository & Modeling Practice * Administer and improve the enterprise architecture modeling suite (repository, models, metamodel guidance, quality rules, permissions, and workflows). * Drive artifact inventory, remediation, migration, quality validation, training, and adoption across the organization. 6. Stakeholder Coordination & Reporting * Coordinate architecture activities with cybersecurity, data management, cloud, infrastructure, application development, and portfolio management stakeholders. * Prepare and deliver periodic reports summarizing architecture activities, compliance status, risks, modernization initiatives, and progress toward the target architecture. ## Related Videos - [We (don't) need a software architect!?!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/663-we-don-t-need-a-software-architect) - [ChatGPT and Java: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/536-chatgpt-and-java-a-match-made-in-heaven-or-hell) - [Communicate efficiently with Software Architecture Diagrams](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/379-communicate-efficiently-with-software-architecture-diagrams) - [Beyond UML: Making Sense of AI-Generated Code through Visual Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2102-beyond-uml-making-sense-of-ai-generated-code-through-visual-architecture) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Enhancing Developer Experience During Architecture Modernization](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1174-enhancing-developer-experience-during-architecture-modernization) ## Related Articles - [Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed (and When You Actually Need It)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/745-why-event-driven-architecture-isn-t-about-speed-and-when-you-actually-need-it) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [Why Attend a Developer Event in 2026?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/688-why-attend-a-developer-event-in-2026) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Graph and AI Trends 2026: Why Is AI Running but Not Yet Delivering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/680-graph-and-ai-trends-2026-why-is-ai-running-but-not-yet-delivering) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers)