Senior Enterprise Architect – Zero-Trust & Modernization

Accenture Federal Services; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect – SME to lead enterprise architectures across complex environments, shaping roadmaps and modernization initiatives in support of federal missions. You will ensure alignment between business goals and technology investments while advancing security, scalability, and interoperability.

The role requires 10+ years in the field, strong leadership, and deep expertise in cloud, governance, and cross-domain integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years in enterprise architecture, systems engineering, or related roles.
• Experience developing architecture strategies, frameworks, and roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems, cloud, systems integration, modernization.
• Experience improving security, scalability, resilience, interoperability in designs.
• Knowledge of zero-trust security principles and governance practices.
• Proficiency with Cisco technologies: Switching, Routing, Firewalling, site-to-site (IPsec, DMVPN, SD-WAN).
• Experience with Arista switching.
• Expertise in tunneling & VPNs: GRE, IPsec, SSH, SSL, OpenVPN, WireGuard; multi-tier apps.
• Familiarity with VMWare, Proxmox, Nutanix; virtualization/hyper-converged infra.
• Storage proficiency: QNAP, Synology, TrueNAS, NetApp; File protocols: Samba, SSH, SFTP, NFS.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise-class systems and architectures.
• Develop current-state and future-state architecture roadmaps.
• Ensure alignment between business strategies and technology investments.
• Identify opportunities to improve scalability, interoperability, security, and operations.
• Evaluate and improve architectural designs for security, scalability, resilience, interoperability.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Zero-trust security

Governance

Cloud technologies

System integration

Architecture roadmaps

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (Nice to have)

Tools

Cisco technologies

Arista switching

VPN technologies

VMware

Proxmox

Nutanix

QNAP storage

Synology storage

TrueNAS

NetApp

Samba

SSH

SFTP

NFS

OpenVPN

WireGuard

GRE

IPsec

SSL

SD-WAN

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect – SME to lead enterprise architectures across complex environments, shaping roadmaps and modernization initiatives in support of federal missions. You will ensure alignment between business goals and technology investments while advancing security, scalability, and interoperability.

The role requires 10+ years in the field, strong leadership, and deep expertise in cloud, governance, and cross-domain integration.