Systems Architect - Expert
Core
Lead the design, development, maintenance, and documentation of enterprise and solution architectures for critical intelligence and defense missions, advising government leadership on strategies and modernization.
Role type
Senior IC Systems Architect (Enterprise/DoD)
Builds
Enterprise and solution architectures, ASG architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and digital models
Domain
Defense & Intelligence / Enterprise Architecture
Required skills
Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, DoDAF, Intelligence Community Program Architecture Guidance (PAG), MBSE, JARM, Architecture Governance, Digital Engineering
Preferred skills
MBSE, Architecture Methodologies, Architecture Modeling Languages, Enterprise Architecture Certification, National Defense University Certification, Intelligence Community Experience
Technologies
Architect Support, MBSE, JARM
Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, maintenance, and documentation of enterprise and solution architectures. Maintain traceability between architecture products, enterprise requirements, and strategic objectives. Develop and manage ASG architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and digital models. Create architecture views and visualizations that help international partners understand and collaborate. Advise government leadership on architecture strategies, modernization efforts, and emerging technologies. Analyze user requirements, workflows, and system capabilities to improve existing solutions. Coordinate and oversee senior, mid-level, and junior systems architects. Produce architecture deliverables in accordance with DoDAF and IC Program Architecture Guidance standards. Use MBSE methods to develop and maintain digital system models. Apply JARM to identify capability gaps, support analyses of alternatives, and inform investment decisions. Recommend and implement architecture tools, models, simulations, reports, and decision-support capabilities. Manage architecture repositories, processes, and tools for effective lifecycle management of architecture artifacts. Respond to government stakeholders and Liaison National Officers on emerging and ad hoc needs. Brief architecture status, recommendations, and strategic initiatives to senior government and international leadership forums.
