The Systems Architect will provide advanced systems design, architecture, and integration support to ensure reliable and scalable mission-critical applications within the Sponsor’s environment. The Contractor will collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary teams, application developers, and cyber operations personnel to design, enhance, and maintain complex systems that meet stringent performance, security, and interoperability requirements.
The Systems Architect shall provide architecture and systems engineering support to include, but not be limited to, the following tasks:
a) Define and design end-to-end system architectures that meet user and mission requirements across multiple application and database environments.
b) Develop and maintain system data models, ensuring scalability, extensibility, and alignment with future mission needs.
c) Architect and integrate cloud-hosted systems, leveraging AWS services and ensuring compliance with Sponsor security standards and data flow requirements.
d) Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure interoperability, availability, and performance of distributed systems and applications.
e) Translate user and stakeholder requirements into technical designs that align with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile methodologies.
f) Design and implement solutions that integrate multiple data sources, repositories, and services across on-premise and cloud environments.
g) Monitor and evaluate technology changes (e.g., network updates, cloud service modifications, or security mandates) and develop actionable plans to adapt system architecture accordingly.
h) Conduct impact and level-of-effort assessments for new or modified requirements to guide planning and resource allocation.
i) Coordinate with software developers and cyber operations teams to ensure that system designs support mission resiliency, scalability, and continuous modernization.
j) Support system documentation, technical specifications, and architecture diagrams to enable future maintenance and system understanding.
Demonstrated experience using JIRA.
Demonstrated experience working on multi-disciplinary application development teams.
Demonstrated experience with the following technologies: Linux (Bash), Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, AWS Services, User-driven web applications, and Elasticsearch.
Demonstrated experience working within the Agency’s cyber operations organizations, performing systems design, development, and interconnectivity.
Demonstrated experience translating user requirements into end-to-end system and database designs involving multiple interfaces to other applications or supporting systems.
Demonstrated experience applying Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and Agile Development Methods.
Demonstrated experience designing and developing applications hosted on AWS that leverage diverse AWS services.
Demonstrated experience developing and implementing system data models and predicting future system needs.
Demonstrated experience maintaining awareness of changes to networks, cloud services, and security requirements, and developing adjustment plans.
Demonstrated experience evaluating the impact and level-of-effort of new requirements on current and future systems.
Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s cyber operations mission applications.
Demonstrated experience using ArangoDB.
Demonstrated successful development and deployment of an application that has completed the Sponsor’s Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) process.
Demonstrated experience architecting a graph database, including adapting existing system data models to accommodate link analysis and advanced visualization.