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 14, 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 14, 2026. This position is contingent upon contract award.