Senior Enterprise Architect - Rippling

We believe our greatest asset is our people. We invest in our team’s growth, empower them with autonomy and accountability, and offer meaningful work that supports mission-focused agencies while advancing your career.

Join us if you’re looking to do impactful work, develop professionally, and be part of a culture that values continuous improvement, metrics-driven performance, and exceptional service.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect will provide Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) architecture support our governement customer in support of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Information Technology (C4-IT) architecture and engineering activities. This position supports the development, maintenance, validation, and curation of enterprise architecture products that enable the customer mission and enterprise capability requirements across Nuclear Command and Control, Cyber, Electromagnetic Spectrum Management, Missile Defense, and other mission areas.

The Senior Enterprise Architect will assist the Government in ensuring architecture products, operational views, capability models, and systems architecture artifacts support enterprise modernization, technical refresh planning, lifecycle management, capability engineering, and future IT rationalization decisions.

What you'll do

• Support the development and maintenance of USSTRATCOM enterprise architecture products that capture command capabilities and support Unified Command Plan responsibilities.
• Curate architecture, engineering, and analytical artifacts that support a master architecture plan, including architecture purpose, mission-area scope, and required perspectives.
• Analyze existing C4-IT architectures and artifacts to ensure standards alignment, identify efficiencies, and document capability gaps needed to improve operations, technical depictions, functional depictions, and solution modeling.
• Build, validate, and curate business architecture models and artifacts incorporating organizational structure, operations, governance, policies, technology alignment, business processes, strategies, and value streams.
• Support systems architecture repository validation and curation.
• Perform system architecture activities that communicate solution designs, system composition, interconnectivity, context, operational support, and capability functions.
• Develop and curate operational architecture products, including operational scenarios, activities, requirements, capability modeling, and supporting artifacts.
• Translate mission and operational views, requirements, and capability needs into models that support Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), and other capability engineering activities.