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Contract Type: 1099 Independent Contractor (Individual Consultant Only) | C2C: Not Accepted
Location: Remote, U.S. Based; must be willing and able to work onsite in Washington State as required
Schedule: Part-Time, approximately 20 hours/week
Compensation: $90-$120/hour, depending on experience and relevant certifications
Position Overview
REV is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide program-level architectural leadership for a large-scale enterprise technology modernization initiative.
The Enterprise Architect will maintain the overarching architecture across applications, data, infrastructure, security, integrations, and business processes while ensuring technical decisions align with enterprise standards, modernization objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term sustainability.
This is a senior-level architecture position requiring strong technical leadership, the ability to evaluate complex enterprise environments, and the ability to communicate architectural decisions to both technical and executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities

• Maintain enterprise architecture principles, patterns, standards, and reference models.
• Lead solution and architecture design reviews across technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Define architectural principles, governance expectations, and reference models that support modernization objectives.
• Evaluate technology platforms, vendors, architectural options, and technical trade-offs.
• Identify architectural gaps, redundancies, risks, technical debt, and opportunities for modernization or consolidation.
• Ensure architecture decisions incorporate security, privacy, compliance, and risk-management requirements.
• Provide architectural leadership across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, integrations, APIs, and security services.
• Support cloud modernization, microservices, serverless, API, data, and infrastructure architecture decisions.
• Lead cross-team alignment among technical teams, vendors, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint reviews, demonstrations, design sessions, and architecture checkpoints.
• Oversee architecture documentation, including architecture diagrams, reference architectures, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), runbooks, and lifecycle documentation.
• Ensure architectural decisions support scalability, interoperability, maintainability, security, and long-term operational readiness.
• Analyze existing and legacy environments and recommend modernization strategies.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to architects, developers, engineers, and project teams.
• Support complex technical troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation strategies.
• Provide architectural input into vendor evaluations, solution proposals, technical deliverables, and implementation decisions.
• Communicate architectural risks, decisions, recommendations, and dependencies clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Bachelor's degree must include at least 12 semester hours or 18 quarter hours of computer science coursework.
• Candidate must be able to provide documentation verifying the degree and the specific computer science coursework completed if requested.
• 7+ years of professional IT experience involving information technology analysis, system maintenance, troubleshooting, problem resolution, system design, application development, or database development.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical architecture experience with demonstrated leadership responsibility.
• Strong understanding and practical experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile/iterative development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience designing end-to-end architecture for large-scale applications and enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating and recommending technical architectures, platforms, vendors, and technology solutions based on business requirements and technical trade-offs.
• Working knowledge of microservice architecture, including the ability to evaluate benefits, limitations, and implementation trade-offs.
• Experience with security architecture principles, Identity and Access Management (IAM), authentication, authorization, and secure API patterns.
• Experience applying security standards and controls such as NIST, Zero Trust, encryption, and enterprise security controls.
• Experience working with data models, data flows, metadata, data governance, data quality, and data migration/conversion practices.
• Experience designing or supporting APIs, integration patterns, messaging frameworks, and service-oriented architectures.
• Familiarity with API gateways, interface specifications, and modern integration platforms.
• Strong experience with one or more modern development languages, including Java, C#, NodeJS, and/or Python.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud technologies.
• Experience with serverless technologies such as Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with containerized technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Must be comfortable working as an individual 1099 Independent Contractor.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite in Washington State as required by the engagement.
• Must be able to complete any required background screening, security training, confidentiality requirements, and system-access requirements associated with the engagement.

Preferred Certifications
One or more of the following certifications is preferred and may be considered when determining compensation within the posted range:

• TOGAF
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Other current enterprise architecture or major-cloud architecture certifications may also be considered.
Preferred Experience

• Enterprise-scale technology modernization programs.
• Large-scale legacy or mainframe modernization.
• Cloud transformation and migration initiatives.
• Enterprise architecture governance and architecture review boards.
• Enterprise Identity and Access Management implementations.
• Public-sector or highly regulated technology environments.
• Experience working with complex vendor ecosystems and multiple technical workstreams.
• Experience establishing reusable architecture patterns, standards, and reference architectures.
• Experience supporting enterprise technology programs involving security-sensitive or regulated data.

Engagement Requirements
This is a part-time, approximately 20-hour-per-week 1099 Independent Contractor engagement.
The engagement is primarily remote; however, the consultant must be willing and able to report onsite in Washington State when required by the client/program.
C2C submissions will not be accepted. This opportunity is for individual independent contractors only.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
REV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment and contracting opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status.