Solution & Systems Integration Architect SME

Ignite IT

Washington

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Ignite IT seeks a Subject Matter Expert, Solution & Systems Integration Architect, to own end-to-end architecture for a large federal modernization program. The role emphasizes hands-on architecture work, producing real views and decision artifacts, not just leadership.

Based in a hybrid role out of Washington, DC, the position requires U.S. citizenship and a track record across multiple domains (application, data, cloud/platform, security).

Qualifications

12+ years of IT experience, with at least 5 years designing or governing complex enterprise solutions.
Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent.
Experience across three domains: application, data, cloud/platform, security, or IT operations.
Ability to create diagrams and decision artifacts and explain tradeoffs to engineers and executives.
U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end solution architecture across complex, interdependent systems for a large-scale federal modernization program.
Produce architecture views and decision artifacts to support design, review, and transition to operations.
Lead or participate in design reviews and trade studies, including cloud adoption, modernization, and risk assessment.
Coordinate across platform, network, security, data, mobility, and ITSM teams to align architecture with delivery.
Ensure designs comply with enterprise standards, governance, and compliance requirements.
Maintain architecture records and diagrams, and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Skills

Solution architecture

Design reviews

Cross-domain coordination

Stakeholder communication

Risk analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

Prolaborate

ArchiMate

UML

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.