Job Overview
PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Domain Architect at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this role is to define and lead the enterprise strategy, architecture, governance, and modernization of digital workplace technologies. Serving as the senior technical authority for Microsoft 365, endpoint management, cloud identity, collaboration, security, automation, and enterprise AI services, this role translates business priorities and risk requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable solutions. The architect will establish standards and roadmaps, guide complex transformation initiatives, and partner across Technology, Information Security, Risk, and business teams to improve employee productivity while meeting operational, regulatory, and compliance obligations.
Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
• Own the target-state architecture, multiyear roadmaps, technical standards, reference patterns, and governance frameworks for digital workplace platforms and services.
• Lead architecture and solution design for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, Power Platform, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Windows, and related collaboration, endpoint, identity, and security capabilities.
• Define and govern enterprise AI capabilities, including Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and agentic AI solutions, with appropriate controls for data protection, lifecycle management, responsible use, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop modernization strategies for workplace technologies, identity services, endpoint platforms, automation, and AI-enabled employee experiences.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable solutions aligned with Zero Trust, cloud-first, least-privilege, data-protection, and operational-resilience principles.
• Translate business, security, risk, compliance, and operational requirements into architecture decisions, solution designs, implementation patterns, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead technical discovery, options analysis, proofs of concept, product evaluations, and architecture reviews for new and emerging technologies.
• Provide technical leadership for complex migrations, integrations, platform consolidations, and enterprise transformation programs from planning through transition to operations.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Information Risk, Enterprise Architecture, application teams, service owners, and business stakeholders to resolve cross-domain dependencies and delivery risks.
• Produce and maintain architecture documentation, decision records, reference designs, technical standards, security patterns, and implementation guidance.
• Establish architecture guardrails and review solution conformance, exceptions, technical debt, platform health, adoption, and lifecycle risks.
• Provide technical direction to engineering teams and vendors, mentor senior engineers, and communicate recommendations and tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences.
Qualifications
Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of progressive enterprise technology experience, including five or more years in architecture, engineering, or senior technical leadership roles.
• Deep expertise across Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, and Microsoft Copilot.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise architecture strategies, capability roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, decision records, and governance processes.
• Extensive experience designing and governing enterprise collaboration, productivity, endpoint, identity, information-protection, and security services.
• Experience modernizing Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID environments, including hybrid-to-cloud identity transitions, Conditional Access, Identity Governance, passwordless authentication, privileged access, and device-based access controls.
• Strong knowledge of Zero Trust architecture, information protection, data loss prevention, records and retention controls, eDiscovery, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience implementing and governing enterprise generative AI and agentic AI capabilities, including data boundaries, access controls, lifecycle management, monitoring, and responsible-use standards.
• Experience integrating Microsoft 365 and identity services with Azure, AWS, SaaS platforms, and enterprise applications.
• Experience developing automation and integration solutions using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, Azure Automation, or comparable platforms.
• Experience evaluating technology products, leading proofs of concept, defining nonfunctional requirements, and guiding complex migrations and platform transformations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executive and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience directing vendors and service providers and leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
• Experience supporting financial services, banking, credit unions, or another highly regulated industry is preferred.
• Experience with Tanium for endpoint visibility, software deployment, patching, vulnerability remediation, and security operations is preferre
• Provides matrixed technical leadership to architects, engineers, project teams, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Provides technical oversight and performance direction for third-party vendors and service providers within assigned initiatives.
• Experience using A.I. tools preferred.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position will not supervise employees.
Licenses and Certifications
• One or more advanced Microsoft certifications are preferred, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or an equivalent Microsoft 365, security, identity, or endpoint credential.
• TOGAF, CISSP, or an equivalent architecture or security certification is preferred.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.
*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*
Travel
Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may be required.
Pay Transparency
The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $97,400.00 - $ 200,259.00
This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval.
This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.
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Benefits
At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You’ll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.
Our Purpose
Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935.
Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is one of America's largest federal credit unions, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $29 billion in assets. PenFed offers market-leading certificates, checking and savings, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and a wide range of other financial services, always with members' interests in mind. PenFed is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty, LLC is a full-service real estate company ready to assist our clients with buying, selling and renting a home. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PenFed Credit Union and is the largest independently-owned brokerage in the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network, placing us in the top 1% of all real estate brokerages in the country.
With almost 60 offices and nearly 2,000 world-class sales professionals, we offer complete service coverage in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas and Texas. In addition, we also offer specialized client services which include management of vacation properties and long-term rentals, corporate relocation services and national referral network.
Equal Employment Opportunity
PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same.
PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at Careers@PenFed.org .