Senior Systems Architect (Top Secret cleared)
Core
Provide enterprise/system architecture oversight for mission-critical government environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions across cloud and hybrid platforms.
Role type
Senior Systems Architect
Builds
Cloud landing zones, integration patterns, and target-state architectures for national security programs
Domain
Government / National Security / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Systems architecture, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, AWS cloud services, API integration, event streaming, security compliance, architecture frameworks (TOGAF/DoDAF), infrastructure as code, CI/CD integration
Preferred skills
High-scale high-availability system design, legacy modernization strategies, cost-performance-risk trade-off analysis
Technologies
AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, APIs, event streaming
Responsibilities
Lead system and solution architecture efforts across product lines or mission systems; Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails; Provide technical governance through architecture reviews, design approvals, and technical decision records; Architect and guide integrations across internal and external systems; Ensure interoperability, data flows, and interface control documentation align with program needs; Define cloud landing zone/target architectures in AWS including network, identity, security, compute, and data services; Support cloud migration/modernization strategies and trade-off analyses; Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to address threats, vulnerabilities, and risk mitigations in designs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
