Poly

Falls Technology•McLean, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Systems Architect will own the architecture for consolidating applications and systems supporting a federal national-security mission. The role plans a phased rollout, establishes design-system and documentation standards, and advances Agile adoption to help product teams deliver with less operations and maintenance (O&M) overhead. This is a full-time, on-site position in McLean, Virginia, with core hours from 0900 to 1500. Active TS/SCI clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph and U.S. citizenship are required. The architect will develop plans and reference architecture for application and system consolidation, coordinate design, engineering, and product stakeholders, and lead adoption initiatives across product teams. The role also oversees technical documentation quality, design-system or component-library efforts, UX/UI improvement recommendations, application and interface analysis, and user-support processes. The position includes briefing support documentation, workflows, architectural diagrams, and system security plans.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph.
U.S. citizenship.
Experience coordinating design, engineering, and product stakeholders.
Experience with quality assurance for technical documentation, including usage guidelines, API documentation, migration guides, changelogs, and support materials.
Experience driving adoption initiatives across product teams.
Experience managing design-system or component-library projects.
Project-management experience in waterfall and Agile methodologies, including leading software development teams.
Knowledge of accessibility standards and Agile delivery practices.
Ability to recommend UX/UI improvements that reduce O&M and increase quality and delivery speed.
Experience analyzing and documenting web applications, systems, services, and API/database interfaces.
Experience managing user-support processes, including triage, escalation, and knowledge bases.
Experience writing and briefing IT support documentation, including SOPs, workflows, knowledge bases, deployment checklists, architecture diagrams, and system security plans.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with partner IT organizations.
Experience with design-tool governance, such as Figma libraries or design tokens.
Knowledge of cloud technologies.
Experience integrating AI into existing business workflows.

Responsibilities

Build a phased project plan, including roles and resource projections, to consolidate IT technical support and development across applications and systems.
Develop an Agile methodology implementation plan with clear roles for sponsor adoption.
Create a document-management plan defining required documentation, storage locations, and versioning for applications and systems.
Produce a service-management plan for tiered support across applications and systems.
Define a reference architecture for adoption across applications and systems.
Coordinate design, engineering, and product stakeholders and drive adoption initiatives across product teams.
Lead quality assurance for technical documentation, including usage guidelines, API documentation, migration guides, changelogs, and user-support materials.
Manage design-system or component-library work and propose UX/UI improvements that reduce O&M and speed delivery.
Analyze and document web applications, systems, services, and interfaces, including databases and APIs, to guide future development.
Manage user-support processes, including triage, escalation, and knowledge-base processes.
Brief SOPs, workflows, architectural diagrams, and system security plans.