Solution & Systems Integration Architect SME

Ignite IT; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending account

Paid time off

Professional development assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Referral program

Job summary

Ignite IT seeks a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Solution & Systems Integration Architect to own end-to-end solution architecture for a large federal modernization program. The role translates mission requirements into secure, scalable designs and carries them through review, implementation, and transition.

This hands-on architecture role expects real architecture views and artifacts and requires U.S. citizenship.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience with architecture leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated architecture experience across at least three domains (application, integration, data, cloud/platform, network, cybersecurity, endpoint/mobility, ITSM, or operations).
• Experience with interfaces/APIs, dependencies, nonfunctional requirements, security and operational constraints, and implementation readiness.

Responsibilities

• Translate mission and business requirements into secure, scalable architectures and baselines.
• Develop and review architecture views (context, logical, physical, component, interface, deployment, integration).
• Lead or participate in architecture compliance and design reviews; conduct trade studies.
• Identify risks early in the design process and flag dependencies before delivery.
• Coordinate across platform, network, security, data, mobility, and ITSM teams to align architecture with delivery.
• Ensure designs comply with enterprise standards, governance and compliance; support rationalization and modernization.

Skills

IT architecture

Enterprise architecture

Systems integration

Cross-domain coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

Prolaborate

ArchiMate

UML

SysML

BPMN

Job description

We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Solution & Systems Integration Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns end-to-end solution architecture across complex, interdependent systems, translating mission and business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable technical designs, and carrying those designs through review, implementation, and operational transition.

This is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to produce real architecture views and decision artifacts, 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.Solution Architecture & Design

• Translate mission and business requirements into secure, scalable, supportable architectures and technical baselines.

• Develop and review context, logical, physical, component, interface, deployment, integration, and transition views at the level required for decisions and implementation.

• Apply approved patterns, common services, reference architectures, and reusable design approaches.

2.Design Reviews & Trade Studies

• Lead or participate in architecture compliance reviews, technical design reviews, and implementation-readiness reviews.
• Conduct trade studies and analyze alternatives involving cloud adoption, modernization, technical debt, rationalization, interoperability, resilience, and cost.

3.Risk Identification

• Identify interface, dependency, performance, security, data, platform, network, and operational risks early in the design process.
• Flag lifecycle risks and dependencies before they affect delivery.

4.Cross-Domain Coordination

• Coordinate engineers and specialists across platform, network, security, data, mobility, and ITSM teams to align architecture with delivery.
• Resolve cross-vendor and cross-organizational design conflicts under fixed milestones.

5.Compliance & Rationalization

• Ensure designs align with enterprise architecture standards, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Support application rationalization and legacy modernization efforts.

6.Transition & Documentation

• Support problem resolution during testing, deployment, transition, operations, and post-implementation stabilization.

• Maintain architecture decisions, deviations, assumptions, dependencies, diagrams, and interface records in approved repositories.

• Produce clear diagrams and decision artifacts, and explain tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, and executive stakeholders.

• 12+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years designing or governing complex enterprise solutions.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience.

• Demonstrated architecture experience across at least three of the following domains: application, integration, data, cloud/platform, network, cybersecurity, endpoint/mobility, identity, ITSM, or operations.

• Experience with interfaces/APIs, dependencies, nonfunctional requirements, security and operational constraints, technical reviews, and implementation readiness.

• Ability to create clear diagrams and decision artifacts and explain tradeoffs to engineers, program managers, and executives.

• U.S. Citizenship Required.

Nice to Have

• Direct federal, government, or large-scale system-of-systems modernization experience.

• Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate, ArchiMate, UML, SysML, BPMN, or equivalent modeling tools/notations.

• Cloud, integration, architecture, or systems-engineering certifications.

• Experience with shared services, platform engineering, event/API integration, application rationalization, legacy modernization, and zero-trust-aligned designs.

• Experience resolving cross-vendor or cross-organizational design conflicts under fixed milestones.

• 401(k)

• 401(k) matching

• Dental insurance

• Flexible spending account

• Health insurance

• Life insurance

• Paid time off

• Professional development assistance

• Referral program

• Tuition reimbursement

• Vision insurance