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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solution & Systems Integration Architect SME - **Company:** Ignite, LLC - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $131,300.0 - $237,350.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Business Process Model and Notation, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Zero Trust Network Access, Systems Modeling Language, Systems Integration, Software Technical Review, UML, Archimate, Technical Debt, Information Technology - **Published:** August 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us9274a460167e93f424cdb739a14b49b4 ## About the Role * 12+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years designing or governing complex enterprise solutions. * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience. * Demonstrated architecture experience across at least three of the following domains: application, integration, data, cloud/platform, network, cybersecurity, endpoint/mobility, identity, ITSM, or operations. * Experience with interfaces/APIs, dependencies, nonfunctional requirements, security and operational constraints, technical reviews, and implementation readiness. * Ability to create clear diagrams and decision artifacts and explain tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, and executives. * U.S. Citizenship Required. Nice to Have * Direct federal, government, or large-scale system-of-systems modernization experience. * Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate, ArchiMate, UML, SysML, BPMN, or equivalent modeling tools/notations. * Cloud, integration, architecture, or systems-engineering certifications. * Experience with shared services, platform engineering, event/API integration, application rationalization, legacy modernization, and zero-trust-aligned designs. * Experience resolving cross-vendor or cross-organizational design conflicts under fixed milestones. ## Description 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., 1.Solution Architecture & Design * Translate mission and business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable architectures and technical baselines. * Develop and review context, logical, physical, component, interface, deployment, integration, and transition views at the level required for decisions and implementation. * Apply approved patterns, common services, reference architectures, and reusable design approaches. 2.Design Reviews & Trade Studies * Lead or participate in architecture compliance reviews, technical design reviews, and implementation-readiness reviews. * Conduct trade studies and analyze alternatives involving cloud adoption, modernization, technical debt, rationalization, interoperability, resilience, and cost. 3.Risk Identification * Identify interface, dependency, performance, security, data, platform, network, and operational risks early in the design process. * Flag lifecycle risks and dependencies before they affect delivery. 4.Cross-Domain Coordination * Coordinate engineers and specialists across platform, network, security, data, mobility, and ITSM teams to align architecture with delivery. * Resolve cross-vendor and cross-organizational design conflicts under fixed milestones. 5.Compliance & Rationalization * Ensure designs align with enterprise architecture standards, governance, and compliance requirements. * Support application rationalization and legacy modernization efforts. 6.Transition & Documentation * Support problem resolution during testing, deployment, transition, operations, and post-implementation stabilization. * Maintain architecture decisions, deviations, assumptions, dependencies, diagrams, and interface records in approved repositories. * Produce clear diagrams and decision artifacts, and explain tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, and executive stakeholders. ## Related Videos - [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) - [Thinking Differently - How to Make Money from Cyber Attacks & Cheats](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/745-thinking-differently-how-to-make-money-from-cyber-attacks-cheats) - [Why make use of an integration platform in today's software developments and infrastructure?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/758-why-make-use-of-an-integration-platform-in-today-s-software-developments-and-infrastructure) - [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) ## Related Articles - [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) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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