Job Description
Duration: 6-month contract to hire
Clearance: Active Secret
**This position is eligible for maximum telework (>50%) for applicants residing in the National Capital Region (DC, MD, VA).**
**This position’s office location can be either Sterling, VA, or Rockville, MD.**
his program provides systems and security engineering and integration support to specific Government-sponsored projects, pilots and prototypes. This includes solution planning and engineering, defining security requirements, target architecture, interoperability and integration, system testing, Verification and Validation, Modeling and Simulation, studies and analysis, post-deployment security validation (PDSV), and project risk management. As part of this team, you will contribute to the engineering of current and emerging cybersecurity systems, policies, and processes to enforce standards and identify vulnerabilities and capability gaps, and reduce cybersecurity risk of our customer networks.
Searching for a big picture thinker to lead an architecture team working digital transformation in a cyber-environment developing solutions to today and tomorrow’s challenging threats. The Lead Architect shall be responsible for a team of Enterprise and Solution architects. The Lead Architect shall coordinate the team architecture work ensuring that the solution architecture fits with the enterprise architecture. The Lead Architect shall lead the development of enterprise and project architecture artifacts, and lead support for the program’s architecture databases. The Lead Architect has technical architecture responsibilities as well as management and leadership of the architecture team.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
- 8+ years of proven experience as a System Architect with experience in development of conceptual and logical architecture.
- Excellent systems documentation and architecture diagram skills with thorough understanding of systems architecture, engineering, administration, configuration, and security procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate the team’s architecture work with the Government, maintain, and enhance architecture plans and procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to develop enterprise and project architecture artifacts, and lead support for the program’s architecture databases.
- Must have an active Top Secret clearance and be eligible for TS/SCI
- Must be able to obtain DHS EOD
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
- Active TS/SCI Clearance
- Active DHS HQ EOD
- Experience with SAFe
- Knowledge of DoDAF
- MBSE experience in developing UML and SysML models to support architecture, design, and development for large-scale program
- Hands on experience with UNICOM System Architect, NoMagic Cameo Enterprise Architecture/MagicDraw/Cameo Systems Modeler, or other equivalent enterprise architecture tools
- Experience with transitioning requirements and specifications from DOORS into a model-based environment
- Experience with transitioning architecture and design data from Unicom System Architect into a model-based environment
- Experience working with multiple teams and ability to interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders at various levels within and outside of the organization to bring together the solution.
- Experience in systems engineering requirements and concept development, systems hardware and software design and development, and system integration.