Principal Enterprise Architect

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Ensure that all of the resources and support for hardware and hardware modernization (as well as the addition of new capabilities) meet the client's requirements.

- Leverage technological advances to improve system capability, reliability, and extend system life.

- Provide a variety of technical support analysis and integration required.

- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to both Business and Technical Teams on the overall solution architecture.

- Perform gap analysis of current and targeted system operating environments.

- Provide a technology roadmap for maintaining and improving services provided to the external customers.

- Provide forward leading solution enhancements to the Business that support both cost and quality competitiveness.

- Work effectively and efficiently with other departments and Senior Leadership (Capture Management Team, IT Infrastructure, Information Security, and Application Development) to ensure all needs are included in the overall architecture.

- Assist in proposal writing and business development which includes; understanding overall client business needs, product/service strategic direction operations, federal policy requirements, and business development strategy.

- Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Enterprise Architecture Development, Strategy & Governance

- Contribute to the definition, execution, and maturity of the Maximus Enterprise Architecture framework under the guidance of the Senior Principal EA.

- Maintain and enhance enterprise principles, guardrails, and reference models across architecture domains.

- Participate in EA review boards, architecture working groups, and governance forums; prepare analyses and recommendations for senior architectural leadership.

- Assess programs and projects for alignment to enterprise strategies, standards, and target-state architectures.

- Support the development of enterprise capability maps, domain models, and multi-year transformation roadmaps.

Business & Capability Architecture

- Partner with business units to document, analyze, and refine business capabilities, processes, and value streams.

- Identify capability gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for simplification and modernization.

- Translate business strategy into target-state capability models and solution-agnostic architectural recommendations.

- Support adoption of enterprise capability frameworks across programs and delivery teams.

Enterprise Data Architecture

- Work with the data organization to apply and evolve enterprise data standards, data domains, and data governance models.

- Participate in the creation and maintenance of the enterprise data catalog, data lineage, and metadata frameworks.

- Collaborate with data engineering teams to guide the design of data pipe...