Chief Architect

About the role

This BI&A PRIME contract is seeking a Chief Architect to join their program. You will help oversee teams of engineers & developers that build and enhance high-visibility, collaborative web application tools used in the day-to-day mission, across the customer enterprise and across the broader Intelligence Community (IC).

Responsibilities

• Architecture Ownership & Governance

• Define and maintain the system architecture baseline (hardware, software, topology, interfaces, data, security)

• Approve and adjudicate architectural changes

• Ensure the implemented solution satisfies all contract technical requirements

• Safeguard architectural integrity even through cost and schedule pressures

• System Solution Formulation

• Conceptually formulate integrated system solutions that meet operational needs and user requirements

• Define hardware and software design criteria

• Identify appropriate COTS, reuse, and modernization components

• Perform trade studies evaluating performance, cost, schedule, risk, reliability, and security

• Integration & Interface Definition

• Define interface and interconnect specifications

• Ensure system-of-systems integration across MPO environments

• Support verification and test planning for requirements and interfaces

• Participate in major lifecycle reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.)

• Performance, Risk & Technical Stewardship

• Plan and execute analyses and modeling to assess performance, availability, reliability, and operational suitability

• Identify architectural risks, tradeoffs, and mitigation strategies

• Identify required subject matter expertise, tools, and techniques to meet technical objectives

• Act as the technical conscience of the program, ensuring solution quality is not compromised

• Technology Roadmap, Modernization & Future Solutioning

• Develop and maintain a forward-looking technology roadmap aligned with MPO strategic objectives

• Evaluate emerging technologies and define transition strategies for modernization

• Conceptually shape future system enhancements and capability expansions

• Support technical solution development for follow-on efforts, contract modifications, and growth opportunities

• Collaborate with business development and capture teams to ensure architectural continuity between current program execution and future solutions

• Ensure proposed enhancements align with the established architecture baseline and long-term system vision

• Engineering Innovation & AI-Enabled Transformation

• Define and execute a strategic roadmap for AI-enabled engineering transformation within the program

• Lead responsible integration of Generative AI into systems engineering and software development activities

• Implement AI-assisted capabilities

• Requirements analysis and traceability

• Code generation and review

• Automated test development

• Compliance and documentation automation

• Establish governance and guardrails to ensure AI adoption aligns with MPO policies, federal AI directives, and Zero Trust principles

• Ensure innovation enhances quality, compliance, and mission effectiveness in a regulated environment

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with MPO stakeholders, engineers, managers, and users to ensure risks, issues, and solutions are clearly communicated

• Partner with the Program Manager and Chief Engineer to align technical execution with customer vision

• Serve as the senior technical interface for architectural matters

Qualifications

• Twenty (20) or more years of experience with web application and/or front-end languages and technologies plus a Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required OR Twenty-five (25) years of development experience may be substituted for candidates without a qualifying bachelor’s degree.

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance

• Experience leading teams well, with the ability to provide guidance to all levels of team systems engineers, developers, and testers, as required.

• Experience managing multiple teams with numerous technical interfaces to internal and external customers

• Experience designing and developing key architectures to help integrate web-based UI components with an enterprise backend solution, including the use of cloud technologies

• Experience leading design of data models and data repository schemas of an existing application to support new data items, develop new data mining, and data ingest processes for new data.

• Experience testing applications interfacing with REST-based APIs/services.

• Experience leading software testing and troubleshooting of software issues for SIGINT systems using test-driven development frameworks.