Enterprise Architect SME

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.

Key Responsibilities

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-s