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Enterprise Architecture (EA)
RMF
Systems Engineering
REQ#: RQ231707
Public Trust: None
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.
Job Description
GDIT is seeking a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the direction of the Chief Architect and serve as a delegated technical authority when needed. This role translates enterprise-level direction into practical, implementable outcomes.
The position is heavily focused on integration, ensuring cohesion between domain-specific designs, program requirements, security controls, test results, and operational acceptance; effectively closing gaps between design, implementation, and production operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain the integrated architecture baseline, interface catalog, dependency map, assumptions/constraints register, and architecture action log.
- Translate Chief Architect direction into coordinated domain work packages, interface-control documents, integration sequencing, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead cross-domain design workshops, technical interchange meetings, integration engineering reviews, and production-readiness preparation.
- Verify traceability from approved requirements through architecture, detailed design, build configuration, test evidence, operational documentation, and deployment decision.
- Identify interface conflicts, circular dependencies, boundary ambiguities, and sequencing risks; drive owners to closure before they become production issues.
- Coordinate with Security on control inheritance, boundary changes, data flows, authorization impacts, and evidence requirements.
- Coordinate with Service Operations on supportability, monitoring, logging, backup/recovery, capacity, incident response, and operational acceptance.
- Coordinate with requirements analysts on requirement quality, acceptance criteria, change control, stakeholder decisions, and evidence of user/mission value.
- Maintain architecture decision records and ensure exceptions have documented risk acceptance, expiration, remediation, and accountable owners.
- Serve as acting Chief Architect within delegated limits and provide concise technical status and risk briefings to program and Government leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline, or approved equivalent experience.
- Location: Onsite
- Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- 10+ years of systems engineering, solution architecture, integration architecture, or enterprise IT engineering experience in complex environments.
- 5+ years leading multi-team integration, interface management, technical governance, or large solution delivery.
- Demonstrated experience integrating cloud, identity, network, security, applications, data, observability, automation, and operations across organizational boundaries.
- Strong command of requirements decomposition, interface control, dependency management, verification planning, configuration baselines, and production-readiness criteria.
- Experience with architecture review boards, engineering review boards, change control, risk management, and documented technical decision processes.
- Working knowledge of RMF, security control implementation, trust boundaries, data flows, classified enclave constraints, and ATO-impact analysis.
- Ability to lead through influence, challenge incomplete designs, reconcile competing domain priorities, and drive documented closure.
- Strong written communication and the ability to produce concise, reviewable architecture and integration artifacts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with model-based systems engineering, DoDAF/UAF, SysML, architecture repositories, or automated requirements/traceability tooling.
- Experience implementing lifecycle gates and traceability through ServiceNow or a comparable workflow platform.
- Experience supporting multi-enclave cloud migrations, enterprise identity, VDI/EUC, Cisco/Microsoft coexistence, AIOps, or cATO programs.
- INCOSE CSEP, TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, Azure Solutions Architect Expert or a relevant cloud architecture credential are preferred. ESEP, relevant SAFe architecture credentials, and ITIL Foundation Version 5 or current ITIL 4
- Prior IC experience and direct Government customer-facing responsibility
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
#GDITcareers #OpportunityOwned
#WeAreGDIT #transitioningmilitary
#clearedjobs #veterans #Autobots
#IntelligenceEngineered
Work Requirements
10 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
None
U.S. Citizenship Required
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $178,500 - $241,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Enterprise Architecture (EA)
RMF
Systems Engineering
REQ#: RQ231707
Public Trust: None
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.
Job Description
GDIT is seeking a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the direction of the Chief Architect and serve as a delegated technical authority when needed. This role translates enterprise-level direction into practical, implementable outcomes.
The position is heavily focused on integration, ensuring cohesion between domain-specific designs, program requirements, security controls, test results, and operational acceptance; effectively closing gaps between design, implementation, and production operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain the integrated architecture baseline, interface catalog, dependency map, assumptions/constraints register, and architecture action log.
- Translate Chief Architect direction into coordinated domain work packages, interface-control documents, integration sequencing, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead cross-domain design workshops, technical interchange meetings, integration engineering reviews, and production-readiness preparation.
- Verify traceability from approved requirements through architecture, detailed design, build configuration, test evidence, operational documentation, and deployment decision.
- Identify interface conflicts, circular dependencies, boundary ambiguities, and sequencing risks; drive owners to closure before they become production issues.
- Coordinate with Security on control inheritance, boundary changes, data flows, authorization impacts, and evidence requirements.
- Coordinate with Service Operations on supportability, monitoring, logging, backup/recovery, capacity, incident response, and operational acceptance.
- Coordinate with requirements analysts on requirement quality, acceptance criteria, change control, stakeholder decisions, and evidence of user/mission value.
- Maintain architecture decision records and ensure exceptions have documented risk acceptance, expiration, remediation, and accountable owners.
- Serve as acting Chief Architect within delegated limits and provide concise technical status and risk briefings to program and Government leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline, or approved equivalent experience.
- Location: Onsite
- Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- 10+ years of systems engineering, solution architecture, integration architecture, or enterprise IT engineering experience in complex environments.
- 5+ years leading multi-team integration, interface management, technical governance, or large solution delivery.
- Demonstrated experience integrating cloud, identity, network, security, applications, data, observability, automation, and operations across organizational boundaries.
- Strong command of requirements decomposition, interface control, dependency management, verification planning, configuration baselines, and production-readiness criteria.
- Experience with architecture review boards, engineering review boards, change control, risk management, and documented technical decision processes.
- Working knowledge of RMF, security control implementation, trust boundaries, data flows, classified enclave constraints, and ATO-impact analysis.
- Ability to lead through influence, challenge incomplete designs, reconcile competing domain priorities, and drive documented closure.
- Strong written communication and the ability to produce concise, reviewable architecture and integration artifacts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with model-based systems engineering, DoDAF/UAF, SysML, architecture repositories, or automated requirements/traceability tooling.
- Experience implementing lifecycle gates and traceability through ServiceNow or a comparable workflow platform.
- Experience supporting multi-enclave cloud migrations, enterprise identity, VDI/EUC, Cisco/Microsoft coexistence, AIOps, or cATO programs.
- INCOSE CSEP, TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, Azure Solutions Architect Expert or a relevant cloud architecture credential are preferred. ESEP, relevant SAFe architecture credentials, and ITIL Foundation Version 5 or current ITIL 4
- Prior IC experience and direct Government customer-facing responsibility
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
#GDITcareers #OpportunityOwned
#WeAreGDIT #transitioningmilitary
#clearedjobs #veterans #Autobots
#IntelligenceEngineered
Work Requirements
10 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
None
U.S. Citizenship Required
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $178,500 - $241,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in chief enterprise architect jobs.
- Ten or more years of enterprise architecture experience with progressive leadership responsibility
- TOGAF certification or demonstrated application of a recognized enterprise architecture framework
- Experience aligning technology strategy with business outcomes across large, complex organizations
- Proficiency with cloud platforms and hybrid infrastructure architecture at enterprise scale
- Strong stakeholder communication skills, including presenting to C-suite and board audiences
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Chief Enterprise Architect Job Search
Align your resume to frameworks
Hiring panels for chief enterprise architects scan resumes for TOGAF, Zachman, or SABSA fluency immediately. Name the frameworks you've applied and pair each with a concrete outcome, like a platform consolidation or a governance model you built from scratch.
Quantify transformation scope, not tasks
Avoid listing responsibilities. Instead, describe the scale of change you owned: how many business units, how many systems rationalized, or how large a technology portfolio you governed. That scale separates strategic architects from hands-on lead architects in recruiter shortlisting.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists chief enterprise architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter for industry-aligned openings
Your architecture philosophy carries more weight when it matches the sector. If your background is in regulated industries like banking or healthcare, target postings that mention compliance architecture or data sovereignty, because those require credibility you've already built.
Prepare a portfolio of reference architectures
Many chief enterprise architect panels ask you to present a past architecture decision, including the tradeoffs and stakeholder opposition you navigated. Have two or three reference architectures documented at a level you can defend under questioning from both a CTO and a CFO.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
At this level, reporting line, budget authority, and access to the C-suite shape whether you can actually execute. Clarify those dimensions before accepting any offer, because a chief enterprise architect title without organizational reach is a senior individual contributor role in disguise.
Chief Enterprise Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most chief enterprise architects?
The companies hiring the most chief enterprise architects right now include Paragon Cyber Solutions, CDW, and Nuvei, with the largest share of openings in Virginia, Georgia, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services, defense contractors, and large health systems tend to maintain the most consistent demand for this role.
How many chief enterprise architect jobs are remote?
About 100% of chief enterprise architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the strategic and consultative nature of the role. Cloud architecture and integration-focused positions are most likely to be fully remote, while roles tied to digital transformation programs at regulated institutions often require on-site presence for stakeholder engagement and governance work.
How do you become a chief enterprise architect?
Most chief enterprise architects progress through solution architect and enterprise architect roles before reaching this level. Building fluency in a recognized framework like TOGAF, earning relevant certifications, and accumulating experience leading architecture governance across business units are the core steps. Demonstrating that you can influence strategy at the executive level, not just design systems, is what moves candidates from senior architect to chief.
Can you get hired as a chief enterprise architect without direct experience in the role?
Yes, candidates who have operated as principal or staff architects with cross-functional influence are regularly considered for chief enterprise architect roles. The gap is usually not technical depth but executive presence and governance experience. Highlighting situations where you drove architecture decisions across organizational boundaries, managed competing business priorities, or built an architecture practice from the ground up will carry more weight than your job title history.
What does the chief enterprise architect interview process look like?
Expect multiple rounds that test both technical depth and strategic thinking. Early conversations typically involve the CITO or CTO and focus on how you've aligned architecture to business goals. Later rounds often include a presentation of a past architecture case, questions on governance models, and conversations with business unit leaders who will be your stakeholders. Some organizations also include a written architecture vision exercise.
Where can I find and apply to chief enterprise architect jobs?
You can find and apply to chief enterprise architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your industry background and seniority, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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