Lead Enterprise Architect

Lead Enterprise Architect

Salary Range

$170,000 - $200,000 annually

About the Role

Hunter Strategy is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect at the subject matter expert level to support a new, greenfield mission with a large federal civilian agency.

You will join a team of architects and engineers to stand up an enterprise architecture, building the architectural runway and authoring the baseline architecture, governance, and standards artifacts that a large number of development teams in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment will build against.

What You Will Do

• Build the architectural runway for a greenfield federal program in a SAFe environment
• Author the baseline enterprise architecture, governance framework, and technical standards artifacts during the base period
• Work alongside the Solution Architect and Senior Data Architect to determine the enterprise architecture for the program
• Stand up the architecture governance that development team designs and release artifacts are reviewed against
• Maintain the enterprise architecture, governance, and standards artifacts as living Work Products across the option periods
• Review development team designs for architectural alignment and report findings with clear, actionable recommendations

What You Bring

• 10+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience
• Experience establishing enterprise architecture in a new or transforming organization
• Experience authoring governance frameworks and technical standards for consumption by development teams
• Experience working in a SAFe environment, including architectural runway planning
• Experience operating across organizational boundaries, with development teams that report elsewhere
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination

Preferred

• TOGAF or comparable enterprise architecture certification
• Experience supporting federal civilian or defense programs, particularly multi-contractor environments
• Familiarity with microservices and API-first architectures, including OpenAPI and gRPC
• Experience reviewing designs produced by teams the architect does not manage

Position Details

This position is contingent upon contract award, with a tentative start date of September 1, 2026. The role is full-time during the program's establishment period and steps to a half-time commitment on this program thereafter. Work is remote-first; occasional onsite support in Washington, DC may be coordinated with the Government. Hunter Strategy is an equal opportunity employer.

This posting is for a current vacancy and the employer intends to fill this position no sooner than September 1, 2026. This position is contingent upon contract award.

Skills

Agile Programming Methodologies, Application Programming Interface (API), Architectural Design, Architectural Services, DataArchitect Data Modeling Tool, Enterprise Architecture, Federal Government, Government, Microservices, On Site Support, Safety/Work Safety, TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework, Writing Skills

About the Company

Hunter Strategy