Strategic Enterprise Architect — Modernization & Cloud

US101 Guidehouse Inc.; Washington (Washington County); On-site; USD 113,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Mobility Stipend

Life Insurance

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead current-state and target-state architecture work, supporting modernization across business processes, technology platforms, and data environments. You will develop executive-level views and artifacts to guide decision-making and modernization roadmaps.

The role requires delivering architecture briefings, facilitating workshops, and ensuring alignment with security, data, and enterprise strategies across client engagements in the DC area.

Qualifications

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding.
• Active PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY preferred.
• US Citizenship required for client engagements.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Eight (8) years of enterprise, solution, or data architecture experience.
• Experience creating architecture artifacts and executive-level visualizations.
• Knowledge of TOGAF or FEAF.
• Experience assessing business, data, and technology architectures.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Work from client office in Washington, DC and Guidehouse office in Tyson's Corner, VA

Responsibilities

• Lead current-state and future-state architecture assessments for modernization of business processes, tech platforms, data environments, and operating models.
• Develop enterprise-level views to support executive decision-making and modernization planning.
• Create architecture artifacts spanning business, data, applications, and technology.
• Document current-state architecture and interdependencies.
• Create target-state architecture models and modernization roadmaps.
• Analyze technical debt, risks, dependencies, and modernization readiness.
• Facilitate architecture workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Assess cloud migration and platform rationalization opportunities.
• Support operating model and governance design activities.
• Develop executive architecture briefings and visualizations.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise technology, security, and data strategies.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

TOGAF/FEAF knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Executive visualizations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

AWS Architect

Azure Architect

Open CA

TOGAF

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead current-state and target-state architecture work, supporting modernization across business processes, technology platforms, and data environments. You will develop executive-level views and artifacts to guide decision-making and modernization roadmaps.

The role requires delivering architecture briefings, facilitating workshops, and ensuring alignment with security, data, and enterprise strategies across client engagements in the DC area.