Sandymacevolution
Senior Enterprise Architect (Requirements & Architecture Management)
Sandymacevolution, Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 23500
Norfolk, United States | Posted on 10/14/2025
Sandy Mac Evolution LLC is a Veteran‑Owned company dedicated to connecting top talent with meaningful opportunities.
Job Description This opportunity is open only to individuals who currently hold an active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or NATO security clearance at the required level. Engagement will be under a 1099 / Business‑to‑Business (B2B) contractual arrangement — not a W‑2 employment position.
As this is a B2B / 1099 engagement, benefits such as health insurance, paid time off, and retirement plans are not provided. Contractors are responsible for managing their own taxes, insurance, and other business obligations in accordance with federal and state requirements.
A senior enterprise architect with a postgraduate degree in IT, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture, and more than 10 years of experience supporting large‑scale architecture initiatives. The ideal candidate is proficient in NATO or defense enterprise frameworks, such as TOGAF, MODAF, or ArchiMate, and has direct experience with requirements management and architecture governance.
They should demonstrate the ability to translate NATO capability requirements into actionable architecture models, ensuring interoperability, compliance, and alignment with long‑term strategic goals. Proven NATO project experience in architecture management offices or major defense programs is required.
Search Focus: Senior enterprise architects with NATO requirements and architecture governance experience.
DUTIES/ROLE:
Perform analysis of existing capability architectures and their modeling at enterprise level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programs.
Perform modeling, architecture, and design activities of new capabilities to ensure completeness, consistency, and clarity of requirements related work.
Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support of capability design and requirement definition as well as to enterprise and portfolio management.
Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation, and traceability of capability requirements and identification of dependencies from other capabilities and/or regulatory requirements.
Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation, and traceability of higher and lower‑level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.).
Support P3M planning activities to ensure that the dependencies between architecture and the other elements of the plans are understood and taken into consideration.
Maintain the architectural artifacts in their repositories ensuring version and configuration control.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to requirements managers.
Support the development, analysis, and review of concepts of operation, courses of action, and alternatives.
Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating to capability development.
Organize and participate in workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
Collaborate with national and international military and civilian organizations, including Centers of Excellence and academia, in support of the activities above.
Identify lessons and contribute to their learning within the organization.
Support other requirements management activities across the capability lifecycle.
Support change and configuration management of requirements across the lifecycle.
Support the coordination of architecture related products with Management and Governance.
Support the Branch Head CR and travel to meet meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO’s boundaries for up to 30 days per year.
Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labor category.
Requirements:
At least five (5) years in the last ten (10) years of demonstrable experience with hand‑on development of business, application, and technology architectures, using professional modeling tools (e.g. Sparx, ARIS, BizzDesign), in accordance with TOGAF or comparable architectural frameworks (e.g. Zachman, DoDAF, UAF).
One or more certifications in recognized Enterprise Architecture methodologies and frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF, UAF or similar along with proficiency in ArchiMate notation.
Demonstrable ability to present complex architectures in an easy understandable and accessible way to non‑technical audiences, from end users to senior decision makers and approval boards.
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Sandy Mac Evolution LLC is a Veteran‑Owned company dedicated to connecting top talent with meaningful opportunities.
Job Description This opportunity is open only to individuals who currently hold an active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or NATO security clearance at the required level. Engagement will be under a 1099 / Business‑to‑Business (B2B) contractual arrangement — not a W‑2 employment position.
As this is a B2B / 1099 engagement, benefits such as health insurance, paid time off, and retirement plans are not provided. Contractors are responsible for managing their own taxes, insurance, and other business obligations in accordance with federal and state requirements.
A senior enterprise architect with a postgraduate degree in IT, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture, and more than 10 years of experience supporting large‑scale architecture initiatives. The ideal candidate is proficient in NATO or defense enterprise frameworks, such as TOGAF, MODAF, or ArchiMate, and has direct experience with requirements management and architecture governance.
They should demonstrate the ability to translate NATO capability requirements into actionable architecture models, ensuring interoperability, compliance, and alignment with long‑term strategic goals. Proven NATO project experience in architecture management offices or major defense programs is required.
Search Focus: Senior enterprise architects with NATO requirements and architecture governance experience.
DUTIES/ROLE:
Perform analysis of existing capability architectures and their modeling at enterprise level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programs.
Perform modeling, architecture, and design activities of new capabilities to ensure completeness, consistency, and clarity of requirements related work.
Produce relevant NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) perspectives in support of capability design and requirement definition as well as to enterprise and portfolio management.
Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation, and traceability of capability requirements and identification of dependencies from other capabilities and/or regulatory requirements.
Support the elicitation, capture, development, analysis, evaluation, and traceability of higher and lower‑level requirements (such as capability targets, operational requirements, system specifications, interoperability requirements, etc.).
Support P3M planning activities to ensure that the dependencies between architecture and the other elements of the plans are understood and taken into consideration.
Maintain the architectural artifacts in their repositories ensuring version and configuration control.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring in the area of architecture to requirements managers.
Support the development, analysis, and review of concepts of operation, courses of action, and alternatives.
Coordinate DOTMLPFI development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating to capability development.
Organize and participate in workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
Collaborate with national and international military and civilian organizations, including Centers of Excellence and academia, in support of the activities above.
Identify lessons and contribute to their learning within the organization.
Support other requirements management activities across the capability lifecycle.
Support change and configuration management of requirements across the lifecycle.
Support the coordination of architecture related products with Management and Governance.
Support the Branch Head CR and travel to meet meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO’s boundaries for up to 30 days per year.
Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labor category.
Requirements:
At least five (5) years in the last ten (10) years of demonstrable experience with hand‑on development of business, application, and technology architectures, using professional modeling tools (e.g. Sparx, ARIS, BizzDesign), in accordance with TOGAF or comparable architectural frameworks (e.g. Zachman, DoDAF, UAF).
One or more certifications in recognized Enterprise Architecture methodologies and frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF, UAF or similar along with proficiency in ArchiMate notation.
Demonstrable ability to present complex architectures in an easy understandable and accessible way to non‑technical audiences, from end users to senior decision makers and approval boards.
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