Chief Architect
REI Systems2 years ago
Sterling, VA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Establish and communicate technical vision, architecture strategy, and engineering direction for complex enterprise programs.
- Lead and coordinate enterprise, solution, cloud, data, security, and other domain architects and technical leads.
- Define target-state architectures, modernization roadmaps, enterprise standards, reference architectures, and architectural principles.
- Chair or lead architecture review boards and technical governance forums.
- Evaluate major architectural decisions, technology selections, integration approaches, and modernization strategies.
- Drive cloud-native technology, automation, modern data platform, reusable service, and AI adoption strategies.
- Establish enterprise architecture, governance, security, responsible AI, and integration standards for generative AI adoption.
- Ensure solutions satisfy federal security, privacy, accessibility, compliance, scalability, performance, and availability requirements.
- Provide executive-level technical guidance to government stakeholders and REI leadership.
- Lead resolution of complex cross-program architecture and engineering challenges.
- Support strategic proposals, solution development, oral presentations, technical volumes, and capture efforts.
- Develop reusable architecture patterns, technical accelerators, standards, and organizational capability while mentoring senior architects and engineering leaders.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, software engineering, systems engineering, or architecture.
- 10+ years of architecture leadership experience supporting large-scale enterprise systems.
- Experience serving as a Chief Architect, Lead Architect, Enterprise Architect, or equivalent technical leader.
- Deep understanding of cloud computing, distributed systems, application architecture, data architecture, APIs, integration, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps.
- Experience modernizing large, complex, mission-critical technology environments.
- Strong understanding of AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience establishing architectural governance, standards, and technology roadmaps.
- Ability to lead and influence large multidisciplinary technical organizations.
- Exceptional communication skills with technical teams, program leaders, executives, and government stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Eligible to obtain a public trust clearance.
Benefits
- Professional development and meaningful projects are offered.
- Employees receive flexibility to spend time with family and friends.
- The role is hybrid, requiring two days per week or as needed in the REI Sterling Office.