Enterprise Architect

TIAG is now hiring an Enterprise Architect to lead ONR’s end-to-end system and technology architecture. This full time role supports our program at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA.

This is a position that is 100% onsite (5 days/week at the ONR in Arlington). This position requires a Secret clearance to be able to start work. US or Naturalized Citizenship are a requirement for eligibility. 

Strategic Leadership & Modernization:

• Serve as principal technical advisor to program leadership and government stakeholders, presenting transformation strategies, trade-offs, and investment recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging DoD, Navy, and commercial technologies for security, scalability, feasibility, and operational impact within the ONR environment.

Architecture & DoDAF Governance:

• Author and maintain DoDAF-compliant artifacts (OV/SV), network diagrams, workflows, and current/future-state architecture models under strict configuration control.
• Analyze cross-domain dependencies across business processes, applications, data, systems, and network infrastructure.
• Infrastructure & Systems Engineering
• Provide architectural guidance across cloud environments, virtualization, Microsoft/database technologies, enterprise networking, and ONR’s Network/Security Operations Center (NSOC).
• Lead technical design for system migrations, infrastructure consolidations, tech refreshes, and complex enterprise troubleshooting.

AWS Cloud & Systems Engineering:

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud architectures tailored to DoD environments and mission objectives.
• Lead application migration, modernization, and integration within AWS, enterprise networks, virtualization platforms, and ONR’s Network/Security Operations Center (NSOC).
• Provide technical design for system consolidations, tech refreshes, and complex enterprise troubleshooting.

Cybersecurity & Operations:

• Partner with cybersecurity and Information Assurance teams to align all solutions with DoD security requirements and Authority to Operate (ATO) objectives.
• Establish enterprise standards, technical design principles, and engineering documentation (specifications, white papers, SOPs) across classified and unclassified environments.

• 10 years of experience in architecture design, including enterprise and/or systems architecture within complex IT environments.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in software engineering and IT architecture design and implementation.
• Minimum 5 years of experience performing technical analysis and producing documentation identifying interdependencies among processes, technologies, applications, systems, and data.
• Minimum 2 years of experience developing and maintaining System and Enterprise Architecture views and supporting artifacts using the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture diagrams, system views, operational views, technical architecture documentation, and workflows.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including networking, servers, virtualization, storage, identity management, databases, and enterprise applications.
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining AWS cloud architectures in support of DoD environments.
• Experience evaluating and recommending enterprise hardware, software, infrastructure, and technology solutions.
• Experience designing or supporting highly available, secure, scalable enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity architecture and DoD security requirements.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, cybersecurity, operations, application, and Government stakeholder teams.
• Strong technical writing skills with demonstrated experience developing architecture documentation, technical specifications, implementation documentation, and engineering recommendations.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts and architectures into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Active Secret security clearance

TIAG is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor.  Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a), and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a)  and employment decisions shall be based solely on merit and without regard disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. TIAG takes proactive steps to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals without regard to disability or protected veteran status.  The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements and may be subject and required to take action pursuant to the following laws and accompanying regulations:

The Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended (and its implementing regulations at 41 C.F.R. 60-300);
Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (and its implementing regulations at 41 C.F.R 60-741); and 
Executive Order 13496 (and its implementing regulations at 29 C.F.R. part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A).

Salary : $160,000 - $190,000