Deputy Chief Enterprise Architect - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology • Chantilly, VA

3d • $178,500 - $241,500 • Onsite

About The Position

GDIT is seeking a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the direction of the Chief Architect and serve as a delegated technical authority when needed. The role translates enterprise-level direction into practical, implementable outcomes.

The position focuses on integration and ensuring cohesion among domain-specific designs, program requirements, security controls, test results, and operational acceptance. It closes gaps between design, implementation, and production operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related STEM discipline, or approved equivalent experience.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
• At least 10 years of systems engineering, solution architecture, integration architecture, or enterprise IT engineering experience in complex environments.
• At least 5 years leading multi-team integration, interface management, technical governance, or large solution delivery.
• Demonstrated experience integrating cloud, identity, network, security, applications, data, observability, automation, and operations across organizational boundaries.
• Strong command of requirements decomposition, interface control, dependency management, verification planning, configuration baselines, and production-readiness criteria.
• Experience with architecture review boards, engineering review boards, change control, risk management, and documented technical decision processes.
• Working knowledge of RMF, security control implementation, trust boundaries, data flows, classified enclave constraints, and ATO-impact analysis.
• Ability to lead through influence, challenge incomplete designs, reconcile competing domain priorities, and drive documented closure.
• Strong written communication and ability to produce concise, reviewable architecture and integration artifacts.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with model-based systems engineering, DoDAF/UAF, SysML, architecture repositories, or automated requirements and traceability tooling.
• Experience implementing lifecycle gates and traceability through ServiceNow or a comparable workflow platform.
• Experience supporting multi-enclave cloud migrations, enterprise identity, VDI/EUC, Cisco/Microsoft coexistence, AIOps, or cATO programs.
• INCOSE CSEP, TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or a relevant cloud architecture credential; ESEP, relevant SAFe architecture credentials, and ITIL Foundation Version 5 or current ITIL 4 are also preferred.
• Prior IC experience and direct Government customer-facing responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the integrated architecture baseline, interface catalog, dependency map, assumptions and constraints register, and architecture action log.
• Translate the Chief Architect’s direction into coordinated domain work packages, interface-control documents, integration sequencing, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead cross-domain design workshops, technical interchange meetings, integration engineering reviews, and production-readiness preparation.
• Verify traceability from approved requirements through architecture, detailed design, build configuration, test evidence, operational documentation, and deployment decision.
• Identify interface conflicts, circular dependencies, boundary ambiguities, and sequencing risks, and drive owners to resolve them before they become production issues.
• Coordinate with Security on control inheritance, boundary changes, data flows, authorization impacts, and evidence requirements.
• Coordinate with Service Operations on supportability, monitoring, logging, backup and recovery, capacity, incident response, and operational acceptance.
• Coordinate with requirements analysts on requirement quality, acceptance criteria, change control, stakeholder decisions, and evidence of user or mission value.
• Maintain architecture decision records and ensure exceptions have documented risk acceptance, expiration, remediation, and accountable owners.
• Serve as acting Chief Architect within delegated limits and provide concise technical status and risk briefings to program and Government leadership.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental and vision plans.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior