Systems Architect SME- TS/SCI with Polygraph
About The Position
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. Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Systems Architect SME and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
- 15+ years of related experience
- TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
- US citizenship required
Nice To Haves
- Preferred certification in cloud technologies utilized by the Customer, such as AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google
- Experience with publish/subscribe technologies and messaging products such as Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and/or Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).
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.
Benefits
- AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
