Systems Architect SME- TS/SCI with Polygraph

About the role

Join a mission-critical technology program where you'll help design, secure, and modernize a vital communications ecosystem that keeps field-to-base operations running around the world. This role puts you at the center of a major cloud modernization effort, working alongside a talented team to sustain and transform legacy systems into a cloud-first architecture, all while operating in a fast-paced agile environment. You'll bring technical leadership to a high-visibility program supporting national security missions, with the opportunity to work hands-on with cutting-edge cloud, development, and infrastructure technologies.

Responsibilities

• Track and manage all project requirements in the approved electronic repository (Jira).
• Own the overarching system architecture, translating business needs and evolving requirements into a coherent, implementable technical vision for the portfolio.
• Serve as the connective thread across infrastructure, data, and applications, ensuring interfaces, monitoring, and audit capabilities integrate cleanly and the data layer stays compatible with infrastructure, operating systems, and middleware.
• Build alignment across a broad set of stakeholders, gathering input from technical teams, mission partners, and leadership to keep the architecture grounded in real operational needs.
• Set the technical direction for the future, maintaining a living roadmap and staying ahead of industry trends to recommend the right technologies and techniques at the right time.
• Champion technically sound, scalable, and secure design, holding development activity to a high bar as systems evolve and modernize.
• Bring structure and consistency, tracking requirements systematically and ensuring the architecture is well governed through applicable reviews and control gates.
• Develop and recommend guiding principles, definitions, and standards for system assets, along with a comprehensive automated test approach.

Requirements

• 15+ years of related experience
• Top Secret SCI clearance with current polygraph
• U.S. citizenship required

Skills

• Cloud Services – Preferred certification in cloud technologies utilized by the Customer, such as AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google
• Event Bus Programming – Experience with publish/subscribe technologies and messaging products such as Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and/or Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay and paid time off
• AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $264,350 - $357,650. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Travel Required: Less than 10%
• Telecommuting Options: Onsite
• Work Location: USA VA Chantilly
• Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards At GDIT