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About the Role

Fathom Management is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to support a Department of Veterans Affairs project focused on enterprise architecture, financial systems, healthcare claims processing, enterprise integration, cloud modernization, and legacy system transformation. The candidate must be technically hands-on, capable of developing architecture artifacts, evaluating technical alternatives, and documenting designs.

Responsibilities

Lead enterprise architecture activities across Business, Application, Data, Technology, Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, AI, and Governance domains.
Translate business strategy, mission objectives, and operational requirements into actionable technical strategies and enterprise architecture roadmaps.
Establish and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, design patterns, reference architectures, and technology best practices.
Develop and maintain logical and physical architecture models and diagrams supporting enterprise and solution architecture decisions.
Conduct architecture reviews and identify opportunities to improve system design, integration, performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
Evaluate architectural alternatives and provide recommendations based on business requirements, technical feasibility, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability.
Support legacy-to-cloud modernization strategies, including hybrid cloud architecture and transition planning.
Apply deep technical knowledge of financial processing, accounting, payroll, financial claims, and healthcare systems to enterprise architecture initiatives.
Support architecture and integration involving iFAMS and financial enterprise systems.
Design and evaluate healthcare claims processing architectures across on-premises and cloud environments.
Support integration of external trading partners and enterprise financial and healthcare systems.
Develop and maintain architecture for healthcare transactions and financial processing workflows.
Design API and integration architectures supporting internal systems, external systems, applications, and trading partners.
Design integration models for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator supporting healthcare claims and financial transactions.
Support X12 and HL7 transaction processing through enterprise integration platforms.
Define integration patterns using APIs, messaging, event-driven architectures, and enterprise service bus technologies.
Evaluate and integrate technologies such as MuleSoft, Oracle Service Bus, JBoss, or other ESB platforms.
Establish standards for API design, integration, security, scalability, and interoperability.
Provide architecture leadership across AWS, Azure, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
Develop cloud modernization and migration strategies for legacy enterprise systems.
Evaluate cloud-native architectures, infrastructure services, application platforms, data platforms, and security controls.
Incorporate GenAI, AI Chatbot, and AI-enabled enterprise capabilities into architecture strategies where appropriate.
Evaluate technology solutions for scalability, resiliency, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
Support Enterprise Architecture governance, project intake, solution architecture reviews, and technology governance processes.
Support Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) and Exhibit 300-related architecture activities.
Conduct architecture assessments covering business requirements, technical solutions, architecture alternatives, cost estimates, resource requirements, security considerations, risks, and implementation considerations.
Support governance aligned with applicable Federal architecture frameworks and methodologies.
Apply principles from TOGAF, Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM), VAAF, and DoDAF, where applicable.
Lead and mentor technical teams while remaining actively engaged in architecture and technical delivery.
Collaborate with engineers, product owners, data analysts, security professionals, business partners, and government stakeholders.
Work within Agile/Scrum and SAFe delivery environments.
Monitor project progress, identify risks, and communicate status, decisions, dependencies, and expected outcomes to stakeholders.
Provide constructive technical coaching and guidance to team members.
Drive high-quality architecture deliverables within established schedules and deadlines.
Produce and maintain detailed technical architecture documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

Approximately 15 years of overall IT/technology experience preferred.
3–5 years of hands-on Enterprise Architecture experience preferred.
Recent hands-on experience developing cloud architecture diagrams and specifications.
Recent hands-on experience documenting legacy architecture and modernization/transition architectures.
Experience personally developing logical and physical architecture diagrams.
Experience developing infrastructure specifications covering compute, network, storage, security, integration, and cloud components.
Experience conducting architecture assessments and documenting technical alternatives, risks, costs, dependencies, and implementation considerations.
Experience working directly with engineers and technical teams to translate architecture into implementable solutions.
Demonstrated experience with financial processing and healthcare claims processing.
Experience with Federal Government financial or healthcare systems strongly preferred.
Experience with X12 and HL7 in healthcare/financial transaction environments.
Experience with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator strongly preferred.
Experience with iFAMS or comparable Federal financial management systems strongly preferred.
General EDI experience alone is not sufficient; candidates should demonstrate direct experience applying EDI/X12 technologies within healthcare claims, financial processing, Federal Government, or similarly regulated enterprise environments.
U.S. Citizen Required.

Skills

Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Architecture
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
iFAMS
X12
HL7
healthcare claims
financial processing
API architecture
enterprise integration
Federal Enterprise Architecture
VAAF
FEA
FSAM
DoDAF
TOGAF
CPIC
Exhibit 300
Capital Planning
AWS
Azure
Hybrid Cloud
legacy modernization
cloud migration
GenAI
AI Chatbot
Unicom System Architect
Visio
SV-02
ServiceNow
ITIL
MuleSoft
Oracle Service Bus
JBoss
SOA
ESB
Informatica
ETL
data modeling
BPMN
AWS architecture
Azure architecture
Hybrid cloud architecture
Legacy application architecture
Legacy-to-cloud modernization
Infrastructure architecture
Network architecture
Application architecture
Data architecture
API/integration architecture
Security architecture
Logical architecture diagrams
Physical architecture diagrams
Infrastructure specifications
Architecture decision records
Technical alternatives analysis
Architecture standards/design patterns
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator certification
iFAMS experience or certification
TOGAF certification
AWS or Azure certification
MuleSoft, JBoss, Oracle Service Bus, or equivalent ESB certification
GenAI / AI Chatbot architecture experience
Enterprise AI integration experience
BPMN experience
Data modeling experience
Informatica or other enterprise ETL experience
Experience with hybrid cloud architecture
Federal Government or VA experience
Healthcare claims and financial transaction processing experience

Location

Remote – U.S. Based

Work Type

Full-Time

Experience Level

15 years of relevant professional experience required.
5+ years of relevant experience may substitute for education.
Approximately 15 years of overall IT/technology experience preferred.
3–5 years of hands-on Enterprise Architecture experience preferred.

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Salary/Compensations

$130,000–$150,000 annually, based on experience and technical interview

Benefits

Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability insurance
401(k) retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
Military leave
Professional training and development
Tuition reimbursement
Employee wellness program
Commuter benefits

About the Company

Fathom Management is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect with recent Hands-On Architecture to support a Department of Veterans Affairs project focused on enterprise architecture, financial systems, healthcare claims processing, enterprise integration, cloud modernization, and legacy system transformation.

Equal Opportunity

Fathom Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.