Chief Systems Architect: Enterprise IT & Cybersecurity

Foxhole Technology; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Foxhole Technology is seeking a Chief Systems Engineer/Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise IT services program focused on development, administration, maintenance, and modernization of mission-critical systems.

The role acts as the senior technical advisor to organizational leadership, overseeing system engineering, risk mitigation, and modernization strategies across infrastructure, network, cloud, and cybersecurity domains.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of recent enterprise-level systems architecture and engineering across infrastructure, network, cloud, application, and/or cybersecurity domains.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the contractor’s lead technical point of contact with government leadership for all technical delivery matters.
• Provide leadership and accountability for technical performance, engineering quality, and delivery.
• Lead transition activities to ensure continuity of services, readiness, and risk mitigation during transition.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, processes, and performance expectations.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, roadmaps, and governance processes.
• Lead modernization efforts leveraging emerging technologies to enhance performance, security, and scalability.
• Oversee cloud/hybrid-cloud modernization and technology migrations.

Job description

Foxhole Technology is seeking a Chief Systems Engineer/Architect to lead a large-scale enterprise IT services program focused on development, administration, maintenance, and modernization of mission-critical systems.

The role acts as the senior technical advisor to organizational leadership, overseeing system engineering, risk mitigation, and modernization strategies across infrastructure, network, cloud, and cybersecurity domains.