What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Enterprise Architect position at Zantech?
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Zantech is looking for a talented Chief Enterprise Architect to contribute to the success of our upcoming Enterprise Business Transformation project in a Hybrid role based out of the Washington DC Metro area.
The Chief Enterprise Architect will play a crucial role in:
- Current State Assessment & Optimization
- Transformation Vision, Strategy & Roadmap Development
- Enterprise, Business & Data/Ai Architecture Leadership
- Implementation, Integration & Quality Assurance Support (Oversight)
- Technical Strategy And Governance Across All Task Areas
Summary:
Serves as chief architect and technical strategist providing enterprise architecture governance, technical strategy leadership, and multi-vendor architectural oversight for $150M HHS grants ecosystem transformation. This is the primary Senior Technical Director position responsible for strategic architecture leadership, enterprise framework definition, and technical governance. Works in coordination with Senior Technical Director to provide comprehensive architecture coverage.
Impact:
Critical impact on long-term technical coherence and transformation success through enterprise architecture framework definition, strategic technical decision-making, and unified technical vision across complex multi-system portfolio with 170 interfaces and 49 partner integrations.
Responsibilities include, but will not be limited to:
- Define and govern enterprise architecture framework for future-state HHS grants ecosystem across three major systems
- Develop reference architectures, design patterns, and solution standards ensuring scalability, security, modularity, and interoperability
- Provide strategic technical leadership and governance across multi-vendor environment (Grants.gov, GrantSolutions, TAGGS modernization)
- Facilitate weekly architecture governance meetings establishing DoDAF SV-2 standards adopted enterprise-wide
- Lead current state architecture assessment across all three platforms identifying legacy constraints, dependencies, and modernization priorities
- Advise DIS leadership on major technical decisions including architectural trade-offs, technology selection, and investment prioritization
- Design integration architecture framework for 49 partner systems with 170 unique interfaces
- Establish technical vision and multi-year roadmap aligned with HHS IT strategy, Zero Trust principles, and DOGE cost-efficiency mandates
- Coordinate with Senior Technical Director #2 (0.25 FTE) to ensure comprehensive architecture coverage across specialized domains
- Lead architecture reviews and EPLC technical evaluations ensuring modernization aligns with enterprise vision
- Develop cost-optimization strategy through architectural consolidation delivering 30% O&M cost reduction
- Ensure architecture alignment with Federal Data & AI Strategy and trustworthy AI principles
Preferred Experience or Knowledge of the following technologies/functions:
- 15 years enterprise architecture experience in complex Federal IT environments, with 8 years in chief architect or technical director roles leading large-scale modernization initiatives
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, Federal Enterprise Architecture)
- DoDAF architecture standards and SV-2 landscape diagram development
- Multi-system integration architecture (SOA, microservices, API design)
- Cloud architecture and migration strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Federal IT modernization and legacy system transformation
- Zero Trust architecture principles and FISMA Moderate compliance
- Architecture governance and multi-vendor technical oversight
- Strategic technology roadmap development
- Data architecture and semantic modeling
- AI/ML architecture principles and governance frameworks
- Technical debt assessment and quantification methodologies
- Stakeholder engagement at CTO/CIO level
- Cost optimization through architectural consolidation
- Demonstrate a successful track record of extracting value from,
Preferred Education/Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, or related field
- Advanced degree in systems engineering or related technical discipline
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Federal Enterprise Architecture Certification
- Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)
- ITIL Expert or ITIL 4 Strategic Leader
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Required Security Clearance:
- US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret trust or higher clearance, per contract requirements.
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