Systems Architect

Core4ce Careers • Springfield, VA

6h

About The Position

Core4ce is seeking a Systems Architect to design, optimize, and integrate complex system architectures that enable effective data flow, interoperability, and mission performance. The role defines architectural interfaces, data-sharing strategies, and output requirements across multiple systems and components, while ensuring architectures support mission needs and operational decision-making.

The Systems Architect works with stakeholders to translate mission or customer requirements into architectural designs, data needs, and integration specifications. The position provides architectural guidance during development, testing, and deployment, and collaborates with engineers, program managers, and external partners to support coherent system-of-systems integration. Responsibilities may evolve to meet business needs and enable individual growth.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly.
• MA/MS with 13 or more years of relevant experience, or BA/BS with 15 or more years of relevant experience in a related discipline.
• Experience with remote sensing systems, including satellite and airborne platforms.
• Expertise designing, integrating, and optimizing complex system architectures.
• Strong knowledge of system interoperability, interface design, and system-to-system communications.
• Experience defining data-sharing requirements, system outputs, and performance metrics.
• Ability to analyze and optimize architecture performance, reliability, and resiliency.
• Senior systems engineering experience across requirements, solutions, integration, test and evaluation, and lifecycle analysis.
• Experience supporting NSG, ASG, and Federal Agency systems.
• Senior DoD/IC programmatic management experience focused on systems architecture or engineering.
• Skill in requirements capture and traceability, and translating mission needs into technical solutions.
• Experience allocating requirements across architecture components and executing programs.
• Hands-on systems integration experience.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, including diagrams and interface documentation.
• Willingness to travel to support meetings and imaging system field tests.
• Knowledge of end-to-end lifecycle delivery of information technology capabilities.
• Experience designing, integrating, testing, or sustaining secure network systems in complex mission environments.
• Knowledge of enterprise network architecture concepts and networking protocols.
• Knowledge of cloud, hybrid, virtualized, or software-defined network environments.
• Knowledge of network monitoring, telemetry logging, or analytics capabilities used to assess performance, availability, and operational health.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and mission assurance principles as applied to network design, including secure architecture, vulnerability mitigation, access control, encryption, and logging.

Responsibilities

• Determine optimal methods for interconnecting systems to improve architecture performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design and define system interfaces, integration pathways, and communication mechanisms.
• Identify data that should be shared across systems to support mission needs, analytics, and operational decision-making.
• Define required architecture data outputs, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with user or mission requirements.
• Develop data flow diagrams, interface control documents (ICDs), and architecture models.
• Evaluate existing system architectures and identify opportunities to improve performance, reduce latency, and increase resilience.
• Recommend architectural enhancements or system changes based on technical analysis and best practices.
• Work with stakeholders to translate mission or customer requirements into architecture designs, data needs, and integration specifications.
• Ensure architectural solutions meet technical, schedule, security, and cost constraints.
• Collaborate with engineers, program managers, and external partners on system-of-systems integration.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout development, testing, and deployment.
• Support meetings and imaging system field tests, including travel as needed.

Benefits

• 401(k) with 100% company match on the first 6% deferred, with immediate vesting.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with the employee portion paid 100% by Core4ce.
• Unlimited access to training and certifications, with no preset cap on eligible professional development.
• Tuition assistance for job-related degrees and courses.
• Paid parental leave.
• PTO that grows with tenure.
• Generous holiday schedules.
• Opportunity for employees to propose innovations and receive internal backing through The Forge.

What This Job Offers

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