Lead Principal Enterprise Architect
$160,000–$230,000 year
HybridMechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Own the As-Is and To-Be Enterprise Architecture connecting mission outcomes with transformed supply chain business processes, data, applications, cloud infrastructure, and AI capabilities. Lead application portfolio rationalization to identify redundancy, technical debt, and consolidation opportunities while architecting ETL/ELT pipelines and database administration activities to stage legacy supply chain data into massively parallel processing databases. Design the AI-ready data foundation, enterprise semantic layer, and vector data store, then operationalize model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines using AWS SageMaker and retrieval-augmented generation. Maintain end-to-end technical continuity across program phases, including hands-on configuration of AI agent workflows and Supply Operations Center dashboards, while partnering with cybersecurity teams to support IATT, IATO, and full ATO submissions. Requires DoD Top Secret clearance and 12+ years of progressive IT experience.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of progressive IT/systems experience
- 6+ years in a dedicated Enterprise Architecture role
- 3+ years leading an Enterprise Architecture practice, Center of Excellence, or technical delivery team
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field
- Current CompTIA Security+ CE certification or higher, or ability to obtain the required certification within the first two weeks of the start date
- Current certification in at least one of the following operating system/Linux certifications: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), CompTIA Linux+, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with application portfolio rationalization and legacy system modernization in federal or DoD environments
- Experience applying enterprise architecture frameworks such as EACOE/BACOE, TOGAF, Zachman, or DoDAF
- Strong hands-on experience with database administration and the design and execution of enterprise ETL/ELT data pipelines, data products, and semantic knowledge layers
- Demonstrated experience with massively parallel processing data warehouses such as Yellowbrick, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Teradata, or Greenplum
- Practical experience architecting and integrating AI/ML workflows, including AWS SageMaker model training, tuning, and endpoint deployment; retrieval-augmented generation; model training; agentic AI; and vector database technologies
- Hands-on architecture and deployment experience in AWS GovCloud environments, including AWS SageMaker, AWS Glue, Amazon API Gateway, S3, EC2, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Amazon Linux
- Current or ability to obtain a Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret Clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- Meeting the 13 adjudicative guidelines
Desired Qualifications
- Practical experience or technical familiarity with Mendix or similar low-code application platforms
- Prior NAVSUP, Navy, or DoD supply chain/logistics, weapon-systems sustainment, or Fleet readiness experience, including environments such as Navy ERP, One Touch Support, CAV, or STARS
- TOGAF 9/10, Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect, or EACOE certification
- Master's degree in a relevant technical or business field
- Experience with DoDAF architecture
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