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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solution & Systems Integration Architect SME - **Company:** ActioNet, Inc. - **Location:** Vienna, VA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $197,000.0 - $262,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Business Process Model and Notation, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Information Technology Operations, Software Tools, Zero Trust Network Access, Systems Modeling Language, Systems Integration, Software Technical Review, UML, Enterprise Software Applications, Archimate, Technical Debt, Information Technology, Cloud Migration, Api Design - **Published:** September 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=910f457661e45391 ## About the Role * 12+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years designing, implementing, or governing complex enterprise solutions. * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant professional experience. * Demonstrated architecture experience across at least three domains, such as: * + Application + Systems Integration + Data + Cloud / Platform + Network + Cybersecurity + Identity + Endpoint / Mobility + ITSM + IT Operations * Strong experience designing and integrating complex, interdependent enterprise systems. * Experience defining APIs, interfaces, dependencies, nonfunctional requirements, security constraints, and operational requirements. * Experience leading or participating in architecture and technical design reviews. * Strong understanding of implementation readiness, system dependencies, integration risks, and operational transition. * Ability to develop clear architecture diagrams, decision records, technical baselines, and trade studies. * Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and cross-team collaboration skills. * U.S. Citizenship required., * Experience supporting Federal Government or large-scale system-of-systems modernization programs. * Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate, ArchiMate, UML, SysML, BPMN, or similar modeling tools and standards. * Architecture, cloud, integration, cybersecurity, or systems-engineering certifications. * Experience with application rationalization, legacy modernization, platform engineering, shared services, and cloud migration. * Experience designing API-driven, event-driven, and service-based integration architectures. * Familiarity with zero-trust-aligned architecture principles. * Experience resolving complex cross-vendor or cross-organizational technical issues under fixed delivery milestones. ## Description We are seeking a highly experienced Solution & Systems Integration Architect Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support 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, interoperable, and supportable technical designs. This is a hands-on architecture role. The Architect will develop detailed architecture views, trade studies, decision artifacts, and implementation-ready designs, while working closely with engineering, cybersecurity, data, network, cloud, mobility, ITSM, and program teams to carry solutions from concept through review, implementation, transition, and operational stabilization., * Translate mission, business, technical, security, and operational requirements into enterprise solution architectures and technical baselines. * Develop and maintain context, logical, physical, component, interface, integration, deployment, and transition architecture views. * Apply enterprise standards, approved patterns, shared services, reference architectures, and reusable design approaches. * Lead and participate in architecture compliance reviews, technical design reviews, and implementation-readiness assessments. * Conduct trade studies and alternatives analysis involving cloud adoption, modernization, technical debt, application rationalization, interoperability, resiliency, performance, and cost. * Identify architecture risks associated with interfaces, dependencies, data, security, performance, networks, platforms, and operations. * Identify lifecycle dependencies and technical risks early enough to prevent impacts to delivery. * Coordinate across application, cloud, platform, network, cybersecurity, data, identity, mobility, ITSM, and operations teams. * Resolve cross-domain, cross-vendor, and cross-organizational design conflicts while maintaining program schedules and architectural integrity. * Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, governance, security, and compliance requirements. * Support application rationalization, legacy modernization, shared services, and system-of-systems integration efforts. * Define and validate APIs, interfaces, integration patterns, data exchanges, dependencies, and nonfunctional requirements. * Support engineering teams during development, testing, deployment, transition, and post-implementation stabilization. * Maintain architecture decisions, assumptions, deviations, dependencies, interface records, and technical diagrams in approved repositories. * Develop clear architecture diagrams and decision artifacts and communicate technical tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, customers, and executive stakeholders. ## Related Videos - [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) - [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) - [API Design - Getting Started](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/33-api-design-getting-started) - [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) - [Rest API Antipatterns](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100208-rest-api-antipatterns) ## 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) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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