Senior Enterprise Architect — Remote Contract (1099)

REV LLC; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

REV LLC is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide program-wide architectural leadership for a large-scale modernization initiative. The role oversees architecture across applications, data, infrastructure, security, integrations, and business processes, ensuring decisions align with standards and modernization objectives.

This senior position requires strong technical leadership, the ability to evaluate complex environments, and the skill to communicate architectural decisions to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science discipline or closely related field.
• 12 semester hours or 18 quarter hours of CS coursework required.
• 7+ years of IT experience in analysis, maintenance, troubleshooting, design, or development.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical architecture experience with leadership responsibility.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Experience designing end-to-end architectures for large-scale applications and infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating architectures, platforms, vendors, and trade-offs.
• Knowledge of microservice architecture, security principles, and cloud technologies.
• Proficiency with one or more modern languages (Java, C#, NodeJS, Python).
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP; serverless platforms; and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Must be a willing 1099 Independent Contractor and able to work onsite in WA as required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference models.
• Lead architecture reviews across teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Define governance, reference models, and modernization strategies.
• Evaluate platforms, vendors, and technical trade-offs.
• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for modernization or consolidation.
• Ensure security, privacy, compliance, and risk management in architecture decisions.
• Provide leadership across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, integrations, and APIs.
• Guide cloud modernization and API/data/infrastructure decisions.
• Coordinate cross-team alignment and architecture checkpoints.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and architecture reviews.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, ADRs, runbooks, and lifecycle docs.
• Mentor architects, developers, and engineers.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

SDLC

Agile Methodologies

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Cloud Platforms

Microservices

Serverless

APIs & Integration

Security Architecture

IAM

NIST/Zero Trust

Data Modeling

Docker/Kubernetes

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Related

CS Coursework 12+ hours

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

API Gateways

Job description

REV LLC is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide program-wide architectural leadership for a large-scale modernization initiative. The role oversees architecture across applications, data, infrastructure, security, integrations, and business processes, ensuring decisions align with standards and modernization objectives.

This senior position requires strong technical leadership, the ability to evaluate complex environments, and the skill to communicate architectural decisions to