Job Description

Overview

We're seeking a visionary Enterprise Architecture leader to drive the modernization of our secure, regulated defense industry IT environment. You will shape and execute an enterprise-wide architecture strategy with a strong emphasis on cloud transformation, data architecture, and zero-trust security, ensuring our corporate IT ecosystem is modern, resilient, compliant, and aligned to business and mission objectives.

This role leads a high impact team of enterprise, business, and solution architects and is responsible for evolving a complex legacy environment into a scalable, cloud ready, data driven, zero-trust-aligned IT landscape.

Job Responsibilities:

Modernize and Evolve the Enterprise Architecture Practice
• Define and continuously refine EA's charter and operating model to prioritize secure cloud adoption, data centric design, and zero-trust principles.
• Champion architecture as the engine of IT modernization-accelerating digital transformation, improving resiliency, and enabling advanced analytics across the business.
• Ensure alignment with defense-relevant compliance frameworks (DFARS, NIST 800-171/53, CMMC, RMF) and the secure handling of controlled data environments.

Lead a High Performing IT Architecture Organization
• Develop architecture talent across cloud engineering, data architecture, identity architecture, platform engineering, and integration.
• Build a team skilled in zero-trust design, cloud reference architectures, modern data patterns, and secure by design practices.
• Foster a culture of innovation balanced with disciplined compliance and governance.

Accelerate Cloud Adoption & Platform Modernization
• Lead enterprise cloud strategy spanning SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Oversee cloud centric modernization efforts-application rationalization, platform consolidation, cloud migration planning, and cloud native architectural patterns.
• Ensure cloud designs incorporate zero trust capabilities, identity modernization, encryption standards, and automated guardrails.

Elevate Data as a Strategic Asset
• Define enterprise data architecture standards, data governance patterns, and modern data-platform strategies.
• Drive the adoption of secure data platforms and analytics capabilities to unlock actionable insights, improve business operations, and strengthen cyber visibility.
• Ensure data architectures support CUI protection, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance.

Embed Zero Trust Across the IT Ecosystem
• Lead the architecture of zero trust identity, access, network segmentation, device posture, and continuous monitoring frameworks.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure architecture governance reinforces zero trust maturity, threat-informed design, and proactive risk reduction.
• Integrate zero-trust principles into roadmaps, cloud deployments, and enterprise platforms.

Connect Technology Investments to Business & Mission Outcomes
• Drive alignment between IT investments, business strategy, and value-driven outcomes.
• Guide leaders on cloud economics, data driven opportunities, modernization tradeoffs, and technology enabled business capability improvements.
• Ensure enterprise roadmaps and value streams are cloud ready, data-powered, and cyber-resilient.

Operate EA as a Strategic Partner to IT Leadership
• Lead architecture review boards and governance forums that integrate cloud, data, and zero trust standards into decision-making.
• Deliver consumable, actionable architecture guidance to executives and delivery teams.
• Balance agility with compliance-empowering teams to innovate while maintaining strong controls and audit readiness.

Who You Are
• A respected IT architecture leader with deep experience in cloud, data, and cyber-secure modernization.
• Collaborative, pragmatic, and trusted by executives, cyber leadership, and IT delivery teams.
• Forward thinking, detail-oriented, and committed to enabling secure, scalable business operations.

Required Skills and Education

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field; equivalent professional experience accepted in place of a degree.
• Minimum of 10 years of enterprise-scale IT architecture leadership experience.
• Proven depth across at least three architecture domains, such as enterprise, business, data, solution, cloud, integration, or security architecture.
• Demonstrated success modernizing complex, legacy IT environments-especially within secure, regulated, or compliance-driven industries.
• Strong expertise in cloud strategy, data architecture, cybersecurity frameworks, and identity modernization.
• Hands-on experience working with regulated data environments (CUI, ITAR/EAR) and defense-aligned frameworks such as NIST 800-171/53, DFARS, RMF, and CMMC.
• Ability to convert long-term architecture vision into actionable, measurable roadmaps driving business and mission outcomes.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills, with a track record of guiding senior leaders and technical teams.

Preferred Skills and Education

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a technical or related discipline.
• 15+ years of combined experience across enterprise architecture, IT engineering, and operations leadership.
• Experience with enterprise architecture methodologies (e.g., TOGAF).
• Broad IT infrastructure understanding with fluency in governance, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and cloud operations.
• Experience leading architecture review boards, governance committees, or IT investment oversight forums.
• Deep experience with AWS and/or Azure, including hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, cloud-native architectures, and modernization playbooks.
• Strong understanding of zero trust design, network segmentation, device posture, and secure-by-design principles.
• Experience building and maintaining enterprise architecture standards, reference models, and technical repositories.

This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.