Senior Enterprise Architect - Cloud & Federal Modernization

REI Systems; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

REI Systems is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect to craft compelling, compliant cloud-based solutions for federal clients. You will establish target-state architectures, modernization roadmaps, and governance standards to align business capabilities with technology strategy.

This role requires strategic technologists who can translate mission requirements into enterprise architectures, lead reviews, and drive modernization across applications, data, security, and integration domains.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise architecture for federal or large-scale clients.
• Ability to define roadmaps, standards, and governance for complex environments.
• Strong collaboration with cybersecurity, data, and applications teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Define principles, standards, reference architectures, and guardrails.
• Establish modernization roadmaps across cloud, data, and security domains.
• Translate mission requirements into enterprise technology architectures.
• Lead portfolio assessments to identify modernization opportunities.
• Guide architecture assessments across legacy and modern environments.
• Ensure architectures align with enterprise standards and long-term objectives.
• Establish governance processes including reviews, standards, and exceptions.
• Provide leadership for cloud transformation, data modernization, and API enablement.
• Develop integration strategies using APIs, microservices, events, and messaging.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity to embed Zero Trust and privacy controls.
• Partner with data architects on data platforms and AI-ready strategies.
• Incorporate AI and emerging tech into roadmaps where appropriate.
• Establish patterns for secure adoption of AI across applications and services.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for applicability to customer missions.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Transformation

Federal Experience

Leadership

Architecture Governance

Tools

AWS

Azure

DevSecOps

APIs & Microservices

Job description

REI Systems is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect to craft compelling, compliant cloud-based solutions for federal clients. You will establish target-state architectures, modernization roadmaps, and governance standards to align business capabilities with technology strategy.

This role requires strategic technologists who can translate mission requirements into enterprise architectures, lead reviews, and drive modernization across applications, data, security, and integration domains.