Senior Enterprise Architect; Infrastructure Programme

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.

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 over 10 years of experience in designing and managing secure infrastructure for large‑scale defense or NATO programs. The ideal candidate has a degree in IT, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture, and extensive knowledge of NATO security networks, interoperability frameworks, and data center infrastructure.

They should demonstrate the ability to align infrastructure designs with NATO enterprise architecture frameworks, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance with NATO standards. Strong experience in TOGAF or MODAF methodologies is essential, combined with hands‑on NATO project experience.

Search Focus:
Senior infrastructure architects with NATO enterprise systems and secure network expertise.

• Perform analysis of existing NATO Infrastructure capability architectures and their modelling at enterprise, capability and solution level, including identification of gaps, overlaps, and dependencies among capabilities and related programmes.
• Facilitate singular view of Infrastructure ontology in accordance with NATO Architecture Framework (NAF). Create a logical macro‑depiction of Infrastructure capabilities so program directors can drill down to lowest levels and ensure no duplications or deficiencies.
• Perform modelling, architecture and design activities of new and enhanced capabilities, down to infrastructure solution level, to ensure completeness, consistency, and clarity of requirements.
• Produce relevant 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.
• Support the development, analysis and review of concepts of operation, courses of action and alternatives.
• Coordinate DOTMLPF‑I development and implementation synchronization; support the development of recommended courses of action to resolve issues relating to capability development.
• Organise and participate in workshops, seminars, conferences and meetings in support of the activities above.
• Identify lessons and contribute to their learning within the organization.
• Support the coordination of architecture related products with Management and Governance.
• Support travel to 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.

• Essential Qualifications /
  
  Experience:
  
  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 modelling tools (e.g., Sparx, ARIS, Bizz Design), in accordance with TOGAF or comparable architectural frameworks (e.g., Zachman, DoDAF, UAF).
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