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.
About REI Systems
REI Systems provides full-lifecycle software engineering, data analytics, and modernization services to U.S. federal, state, and local agencies and nonprofits, including grants and case management solutions and cloud implementations. The privately held, 100% employee-owned firm delivers consulting and systems integration and supports programs at agencies such as the FDA. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, it focuses on open source, SaaS, and application modernization.