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# Solution Architect V

- **Company:** Kentro LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $226,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Portfolio Management, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Stores, Software Design Patterns, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Interoperability, Microsoft SQL Server, Open Source Technology, Oracle (Applications), Software Architecture, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Technical Debt, Togaf, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Data Management, Devsecops, Serverless Computing, Microservices
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/aa397508-0c3a-40d6-8c24-65868ca0a9b8

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline
 * 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and architecture, including significant time in a principal or enterprise architect capacity
 * Demonstrated ownership of enterprise architecture and target-state strategy for a large, complex application portfolio
 * Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and methods and practical experience applying them
 * Proven track record leading large-scale digital transformation or legacy modernization, including portfolio rationalization and application disposition decisions
 * Deep expertise in cloud architecture across a major provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), including cloud-native, containerized, microservices, and event-driven designs
 * Strong data architecture background covering data modeling, migration, integration, and governance at enterprise scale
 * Working command of DevSecOps and modern delivery architecture: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and security engineered into the pipeline
 * Experience defining and enforcing architecture standards and governance across multiple delivery teams
 * Exceptional communication and executive presence; able to advise senior government and corporate stakeholders and to defend architectural decisions under scrutiny, * Experience supporting FAA, DOT, or comparable federal civilian modernization programs at enterprise architecture level
 * Familiarity with FAA enterprise architecture governance, the Acquisition Management System (AMS), and Authority to Operate (ATO) processes
 * Experience architecting large-scale database modernization (Oracle, SQL Server, or mainframe data stores to cloud-native or open-source targets)
 * Experience introducing AI/ML or automated code transformation into a modernization program at portfolio scale
 * Relevant certifications: TOGAF 9/10 Certified, AWS or Azure Solutions Architect Professional, CISSP, or equivalent
 * Prior experience standing up or operating a modernization factory, delivery center, or enterprise platform organization
 * Experience contributing to federal capture and proposal efforts as a technical solution lead, * Existing FAA suitability determination or transferable federal background investigation strongly preferred

## Description

The ideal candidate will have experience providing strategic direction for enterprise architecture and technology adoption across a large portfolio. You bring expert command of enterprise architecture frameworks, technology strategy, and digital transformation, and you use it to translate the Chief Architect's enterprise direction into portfolio and solution target states - not just how any one system gets built. You develop portfolio standards and reference architectures, lead cross-cutting initiatives, drive architectural innovation, and work with the Chief Architect to serve as a senior technical advisor to program leadership and the government customer., * Develop and maintain target-state solution architecture for assigned portfolio segments, including transition roadmaps from current state, in alignment with the Chief Architect's enterprise architecture strategy

 * Evaluate and recommend technology adoption for assigned portfolio domains - platforms, services, and patterns - and implement approved standards through solution architecture governance
 * Lead portfolio-wide rationalization: assess applications and databases against business value, technical health, and cost, and drive disposition decisions to 6R framework
 * Develop portfolio reference architectures, solution principles, design patterns, and integration/API standards for approval through program architecture governance; define the solution review gates that enforce approved enterprise direction
 * Lead or participate in architecture review boards and design authority forums as delegated by the Chief Architect; adjudicate solution-level decisions within assigned authority and document them as durable decision records
 * Serve as senior technical advisor to program leadership, capture teams, and FAA stakeholders, translating technical strategy into cost, schedule, risk, and mission impact
 * Ensure solution architectures conform to the enterprise data architecture and partner with the data architecture lead on data governance, master data, interoperability, and the path to enterprise data excellence and intelligent automation
 * Translate cybersecurity and compliance requirements into solution architecture patterns in partnership with cybersecurity leadership, ensuring alignment to FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, Zero Trust direction, and FAA and DOT policy
 * Understanding compliance and limitations for creating systems within FedRAMP High/Class D environments like AWS GovCloud, Azure GCCH, and Google Cloud Platform Assured workloads.
 * Drive architectural innovation: identify emerging technologies - cloud-native services, AI/ML, automated code transformation, intelligent automation - assess fit, and lead pilot efforts.
 * Establish the architecture assets that make a modernization factory model work at scale: reference implementations, solution blueprints, accelerators, and reusable patterns
 * Lead and mentor a community of solution architects and senior engineers across delivery teams; raise architectural maturity across the program
 * Define architecture measures - technical debt, availability, delivery velocity, operating cost, standards adoption - and report portfolio health against them
 * Guide service transition architecture, ensuring modernized systems move into sustained high-availability operations without disruption


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