Subject Matter Expert (SME) Enterprise Architect
ActioNet· enterprise· Information Technology And Services· Oct 1, 2026 · 27d ago
Suitland, Maryland
Hybrid
Full-time
Principal
$143K–$219K est.
12+ years exp
Job description
Description
Job Title: Subject Matter Expert (SME) Enterprise Architect
Location: Hybrid - 2 days a week on-site - Suitland, MD
Salary: 190-260K
Summary
Position Summary
We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Enterprise Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns enterprise architecture direction across business, data, application, security, and technology domains. You will be setting target-state architecture and modernization priorities, to running architecture governance and review processes, to ensuring the architecture repository and modeling practice stay current and adopted across the organization.
This is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to work in real architecture artifacts and drive real decisions, not just set direction from a distance.
This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Key Responsibilities
1. Architecture Vision & Strategy
• Assess and continuously improve the enterprise architecture framework to support the organization's mission, business, and IT objectives.
• Define target-state architecture direction and cross-domain integration priorities across business, data, application, security, and technology.
• Set modernization priorities and connect strategic architecture direction to practical, implementable designs.
2. As-Is, To-Be & Transition Architecture
• Develop and maintain current-state (As-Is), target-state (To-Be), and transition architectures across business, data, application, security, and technology domains at appropriate physical, logical, solution, and technical levels.
• Maintain architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, technology standards, inventories, and roadmaps.
3. Governance & Review Leadership
• Operate or support the Architecture Review Board, investment reviews, engineering reviews, design reviews, working groups, and phase-gate reviews with clear intake, criteria, decisions, and records.
• Evaluate proposed architectural deviations, document risks and impacts, and provide recommendations for approval.
• Serve as a senior architecture voice in governance forums, working directly with leadership stakeholders.
4. Architecture Assessment & Modernization
• Perform architecture assessments to identify gaps, redundancy, technical debt, and opportunities for modernization, standardization, optimization, and rationalization.
• Provide recommendations for technology modernization, application rationalization, cloud adoption, and process improvement based on architecture analysis.
5. Repository & Modeling Practice
• Administer and improve the enterprise architecture modeling suite (repository, models, metamodel guidance, quality rules, permissions, and workflows).
• Drive artifact inventory, remediation, migration, quality validation, training, and adoption across the organization.
6. Stakeholder Coordination & Reporting
• Coordinate architecture activities with cybersecurity, data management, cloud, infrastructure, application development, and portfolio management stakeholders.
• Prepare and deliver periodic reports summarizing architecture activities, compliance status, risks, modernization initiatives, and progress toward the target architecture.
Requirements
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture, including significant responsibility for architecture governance, standards, and cross-domain design decisions.
• Demonstrated experience developing or governing As-Is, To-Be, transition, domain, solution, and technical architectures.
• Hands-on experience with architecture review boards, compliance reviews, deviations/waivers, standards, roadmaps, and decision records.
• Proven ability to connect strategic architecture direction to practical designs, implementation gates, technical debt remediation, and modernization actions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to both technical teams and leadership.
• U.S. Citizenship Required.
Nice to Have
• Direct federal, government, or large regulated-enterprise architecture experience.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture modeling and repository tools (e.g., Sparx Enterprise Architect, Prolaborate) — administration, modeling, migration, or adoption.
• TOGAF, FEAF, DoDAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, SysML, or comparable framework/modeling credentials.
• Experience establishing measurable architecture governance that accelerates decisions rather than producing ceremonial reviews.
Experience with repository remediation, metamodels, taxonomy, reference architectures, or application rationalization
Core Capabilities:
• Advanced and Managed IT Services
• Agile Software Development
• DevSecOps
• Cybersecurity
• Health IT
• C4ISR & SIGINT
• Data Center Engineering & Operations
• Engineering & Installation
Why ActioNet?
At ActioNet, our Passion for Quality is at the heart of everything we do:
• Commitment to Employees : We are committed to making ActioNet a great place to work and continue to invest in our ActioNeters.
• Commitment to Customers : We are committed to our customers by driving and sustaining Service Delivery Excellence.
• Commitment to Community : We are committed to giving back to our community, helping others, and making the world a better place for our next generation.
ActioNet is proud to be named a Top Workplace for the twelfth year in a row (2014 - 2025). We have a 98% customer retention rate. We are passionate about the inspirational missions of our customers, and we entrust our employees and teams to deliver exceptional performance to enable the safety, security, health, and well-being of our nation.
What's in It For You?
As an ActioNeter, you get to be part of an exceptional team and a corporate culture that nurtures mutual success for our customers, employees, and communities. We give you the tools to be successful; all you need to do is bring your best ideas, your energy, and a desire to develop your skills, experience, and career. Are you ready to make a difference?
ActioNet is an equal-opportunity employer and values inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Full-Time Employees are eligible to participate in our ActioNet’s Benefits Program:
• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Education and Professional Training
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Employee Referral and Merit Recognition Programs
• Employee Assistance and Identity Theft Protection
• Paid Holidays: 11 per year
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Disability Insurance
ActioNet is an equal opportunity employer and value inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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