Enterprise Architect (MBSE)
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About Agile Defense
At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.
Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.
Requisition #: 1709
Job Title: Enterprise Architect (MBSE)
Location: On-Site, Pensacola, FL
Clearance Level: Secret, Must Have Clearance to Start
Required Certification(s): Sec+
Job Description
The DON BEA Enterprise Architect supports development, validation, and compliance of Department of the Navy (DON) Business Enterprise Architecture. This role develops required DON BEA architecture artifacts, validates system alignment to capabilities and operational activities, and ensures accurate modeling of interfaces and data exchanges. The architect applies MBSE practices and may optionally use ARIS to create authoritative, defensible models that guide Navy enterprise decision making.
Enterprise Architecture Development
- Develop and maintain architecture artifacts consistent with DON BEA and DoDAF standards.
- Produce required architecture deliverables, including OV 5a, CV 2, CV 6, CV 7, SV 1, SV 5b, EV 7, DIV 1, and additional views mandated by DON BEA policy.
- Ensure traceability between capabilities, operational activities, system behaviors, and data representations.
- Support alignment of systems to DON operational activities (OAs), capabilities, and end to end (E2E) categories.
- Use DON BEA‑prescribed architecture taxonomies (dictionary frameworks) to classify capabilities, operational activities, data, processes, and system attributes accurately.
System Validation & Alignment
- Validate system enablement of capabilities, operational activities, interfaces, and data exchanges.
- Assess the completeness and correctness of system mappings to mission requirements, processes, and data structures.
- Identify architecture gaps, inconsistencies, and integration risks.
- Support defensible architecture assertions for DON BEA governance reviews.
Architecture Modeling (MBSE )
- Use MBSE tools (e.g., Cameo, Enterprise Architect, ARIS) to build, update, and validate integrated architecture models.
- If available, apply ARIS to represent processes, capabilities, OAs, and system interactions in alignment with DON BEA modeling expectations.
- Maintain consistency and configuration control across all architecture models.
MBSE & Enterprise System Integration
- Apply model based methods to develop authoritative, single source of truth architecture artifacts.
- Integrate data from systems such as DITPR DON, PBIS IT, ARIS (when used), and authoritative system documentation.
- Manage versioning, model governance, and architecture data quality.
Architecture Compliance & Assessment
- Support compliance assessments including necessity, utility, documentation sufficiency, and DON BEA alignment.
- Develop recommendations, gap analyses, and targeted architecture improvement plans.
- Assist in preparing submissions and updates for DON BEA Assertion Portal and governance reviews.
Education and Background
Typically has a Bachelor's or masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, and 5+ years of experience, or equivalent relevant work experience; e.g., each year of work experience may be substituted for each year of education required.
Years of Experience
5+ years
Required Skills
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (DON BEA, DoDAF, or similar).
- Demonstrated ability to create architecture views including OV 5a, CV 2, CV 6, CV 7, SV 1, SV 5b, EV 7, DIV 1, and related products.
- Experience validating system enablement of capabilities, operational activities, interfaces, and data exchanges.
- Strong analytical skills for mapping system functionality, behaviors, processes, and data flows.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Preferred Skills
- Collaboration and Communication Skills
- Ability to facilitate workshops, OAs, interfaces, and architecture modeling
- Communicate findings, risks and ability to make recommendations
Working Conditions
Typical Office Environment
Our Core Values
Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.
What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.
- Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
- Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
- Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
- Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
- Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
- Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
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