Senior Systems Architect

Join Us in Building High-Impact Mission-Critical Architecture

Ready to help build a vision and strategy for successJoinLeidos on the Chinook Program supporting anIntelligence Community customer and help design and deliver accurate meaningful and insightful architecture and design products.

As aSr. Systems Architect you will play a critical role at the intersection process improvement agile development and IT alongside talented software engineers systems engineers product owners testers and mission stakeholders to transform challenging operational requirements intoviable design artifacts.

This is an opportunity to have adirect impact on an important national security missionwhile working in a collaborative Agile environment where your ideas technicalexpertise and attention to technical detail will matter.

Our Ideal Candidate

Werelooking for someone who is more than an experienced are passionate about how to simplify complex problems and communicate for success.

You naturally askHow does all this workYou enjoy taking complicated IT systems and can describe them with artifacts that are intuitive efficient and elegant. You can speak the language of both designers and engineers understand the realities of defining and delivering software in an Agile environment andarentafraid to challenge an approach when you see a better solution.

Ifyoureexcited by the opportunity todesign and engineer the next generation of mission-focused IT systemswedlove to hear from you.

Position may be performed in the following locations note Gaithersburg MD is theprogramsprimary work location.

• Gaithersburg MD
• Alexandria VA
• Chantilly VA
• Englewood CO
• St. Louis MO
• Tucson AZ

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze and mature existing IT architecture baselines into comprehensive accurate and scalable design models.
• Develop maintain and govern detailed IT architecture documentation across system data and security domains.
• Establish and maintain strict traceability between architectural artifacts mission requirements and deployed solutions.
• Utilize industry-standard architecture development tools to generate and manage structural blueprints and diagrams.
• Integrate architectural planning review and execution
• Collaborate with cross-functional contract teams to ensure the architecture aligns with overarching mission objectives.
• Identify design gaps technical debt or security risks in current systems and architect viable mitigation strategies.
• Lead technical reviews and present complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure all IT designs adhere to Enterprise Architecture standards and Intelligence Community (IC) directives.
• Provide technical mentorship and architectural guidance to downstream development and engineering teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in documentation standards and architecture modeling practices across the contract.

Basic Qualifications:

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Systems Engineering or related technical discipline and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or equivalent experience.
• ActiveTop Secret/SCIwith the ability tosuccessfully pass aPolygraphexamination.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex enterprise-scale systems and solutions.
• Proven ability to create map and manage complex traceability matrices between design artifacts and requirements.
• Experience with advanced architecture development and modeling tools (e.g. Sparx EA Cameo MagicDraw).
• Prior experience working on contract teams supporting the Intelligence (Intel) industry or DoD environments.
• Solid foundational understanding of standard enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. DoDAF TOGAF).
• Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills tailored to producing meaningful design documentation.
• Strong analytical capabilities necessary to deconstruct interpret and refine legacy architectural designs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Active professional certifications (e.g. TOGAF 9 Certified Certified Systems Engineering Professional - CSEP).
• Demonstrated experience operating effectively within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
• Experience designing or documenting cloud-native architectures (AWS/C2S Azure) within classified environments.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and integrating architecture compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Advanced expertise in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies and practical application.
• Previous experience serving as a Lead IT Architect on a large-scale government or Intel contract.
• Deep understanding of data flow modeling data governance and cross-domain solution architectures.

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