Enterprise Architect

Creative IT Inc; Centreville (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) seeks an Enterprise Architect to support Fairfax County as it undergoes large-scale infrastructure transitions and cloud modernization. You will bridge DIT, agencies, and technical teams, listening, facilitating workshops, and turning complex needs into clear technical architecture and delivery plans.

You will lead architectural discovery, produce current-state artifacts, and collaborate across infrastructure, cloud, database, desktop, and security

Qualifications

• Strong communicator who can lead workshops and explain complex topics.
• Cross‑functional collaborator across infra, cloud, database, desktop, and security.
• Ability to turn complex systems into clear, actionable plans.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build consensus in a multi‑stakeholder environment.
• Experience in government or public sector environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as architectural liaison for major technology initiatives and assessments.
• Map current-state enterprise IT architecture across on‑premises data centers and hybrid‑cloud.
• Produce artifacts: system topologies, data flow diagrams, network dependency matrices, and service catalogs.
• Map and evaluate current enterprise storage, observability tools, and related gaps.
• Guide workshops and coordinate with DIT and agency teams to drive shared solutions.

Skills

Strong communicator

Stakeholder management

Cloud architecture

Enterprise architecture

Job description

About us:

Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) is an esteemed IT enterprise renowned for its exceptional customer service and innovation. We serve both government and commercial sectors, offering a range of solutions such as Healthcare IT, Human Services, Identity Credentialing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics. With clients in the US and abroad, we hold key contract vehicles including GSA IT Schedule 70, NIH CIO-SP3, GSA Alliant, and DHS-Eagle II.

Join us in driving growth and seizing new business opportunities!

Position Description:

Client: Fairfax County

Location: Hybrid (Fairfax, VA)

Employment Type: Long-term contract

Job Summary:

We’re looking for an Enterprise Architect to support our Chief Architect while he leads the County through large-scale infrastructure transitions and cloud modernization. In this role, you’ll be the connective tissue between DIT, agencies, and technical teams, spending a lot of time listening, facilitating workshops, and turning complex needs into clear technical architecture and delivery plans.

Scope and Deliverables Include:

Serve as the primary architectural liaison for major technology initiatives and assessments underway. Serve as a Technical discovery & systems architect responsible for mapping, documenting, and baselining current-state enterprise IT architecture across on-premises data centers and hybrid-cloud environments.

Work across DIT Teams to:

• Perform Technical reviews of systems currently within the enterprise.
• Produce authoritative current-state artifacts (system topologies, data flow diagrams, network dependency matrices, and service catalogs)
• Map out and evaluate current enterprise storage platforms, capabilities, and gaps.
• Map our current observability tools and architecture
• Run archive and retention proofs-of-concept (POCs) to reduce cost and risk.
• Comprehensive Current-State Enterprise Architecture Documents

What are we looking for:

• A strong communicator who can lead workshops and explain complex infrastructure and cloud topics to both technical teams and senior leaders.
• A collaborator who enjoys working across infrastructure, cloud, database, desktop, security, and agency teams to get shared solutions.
• Someone who can bring structure to large, complex systems and projects, and turn them into clear plans.
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to build consensus in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, shifting environment, learning quickly and adjusting plans as needed.
• Experience working in government or public sector environments is preferred (but not required)