The Department of Commerce (DOC) has a wide range of responsibilities in the areas of trade, economic development, technology, entrepreneurship and business development, environmental stewardship, and statistical research and analysis. The Commerce Department is also the principal defender and champion of the digital economy. Within the Department of Commerce, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the Executive Branch agency principally responsible by law for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy issues. NTIA’s activities are focused on a broad range of issues at the intersection of telecommunications, information technology, and media policy.
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for designing and managing secure, scalable, and cost effective cloud solutions—primarily in Microsoft Azure—that align with agency strategy and
federal compliance mandates. This includes leading Azure platform engineering efforts such as configuring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Policy, and secure landing zones;
implementing governance through RBAC and tagging; and integrating Zero Trust security principles. The role also involves optimizing cloud spend, supporting hybrid cloud integration,
and collaborating across IT, security, and DevOps teams to modernize infrastructure and ensure operational resilience. Additionally, the architect defines information requirements for
infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring visibility into cloud assets, enforcing tagging for cost and compliance tracking, integrating with security tools, and automating secure,
policy-compliant deployments across environments.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze cloud spending, identify trends, and develop strategies to optimize and reduce costs.
- Create and maintain budgets for cloud services. Forecast future costs based on trends and
organizational growth.
- Evaluate and select Azure services (e.g., Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, Azure
Policy) to support enterprise workloads.
- Work closely with NTIA ITD to understand their cloud needs and ensure alignment with the
budget.
- Collaborate with security operations to embed Zero Trust principles, identity governance, and
threat protection into cloud designs.
- Ensure compliance with federal mandates (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, EO 14028, CNSSI
1253) and internal security policies.
- Design secure landing zones using Azure and Policy.
- Implement Azure governance models including management groups, role-based access
control (RBAC), and tagging strategies.
- Monitor and optimize cloud spend using Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor.
- Architect solutions that leverage cloud-native services while integrating with on-prem
systems (hybrid cloud).
- Work closely with DevOps, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure architectural
consistency.
- Provide architectural oversight for cloud migration and modernization projects.
Qualifications:
We are seeking a Enterprise Architect to support Department of Commerce (DOC) in Washington D.C.
TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.
We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.
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