Systems Architect SME (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

About the role

GCI embodies excellence, integrity and professionalism. The employees supporting our customers deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while effectively leverage the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements in the areas of Data Analytics and Software Development, Engineering, Targeting and Analysis, Operations, Training, and Cyber Operations. We maximize opportunities for success by building and maintaining trusted and reliable partnerships with our customers and industry. At GCI, we solve the hard problems. As a Systems Architect, a typical day will include the following duties:

• Perform a review of Customer's secure and unsecure phone system, network and platform hardware, software, network environments and identify individual application and enterprise systems and services that can be modernized or optimized, taking into account the interactions between the application systems and services, and their relationships to Customer core business processes.
• Assist the Customer to assess lifecycle status, obsolescence, duplication, interoperability, standards alignment, investment dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
• Identify cross-domain dependencies, gaps, redundancies, constraints, risks, and considerations across infrastructure, applications, data, security, identity, cloud, and network.
• Evaluate relevant technologies and trends; identify mission-aligned use cases; frame expected value, risk, dependencies, and adoption considerations.
• Provide technology recommendations to advise and develop the Customers Enterprise technology roadmap, used to predict end of life equipment and tech.
• Work in partnership with the Chief Architect on future iterations of this roadmap.
• Provide actionable adoption, sustainment, migration, consolidation, and retirement recommendations for hardware and software.
• Help prepare decision packages for internal Customer review boards or Customer IT leadership that clearly document outcomes, alternatives, assumptions, dependencies, tradeoffs, costs, risks,