Deputy Chief Enterprise Architect — TS/SCI Integration Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the direction of the Chief Architect and serve as a delegated technical authority.

This role translates enterprise-level direction into practical, implementable outcomes. The position focuses on integration across domains, ensuring cohesion between designs, requirements, security controls, test results, and production operations, while guiding cross-team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline.
• 10+ years of systems engineering, solution architecture, integration architecture, or enterprise IT engineering experience in complex environments.
• 5+ years leading multi-team integration, interface management, technical governance, or large solution delivery.
• Working knowledge of RMF, security control implementation, trust boundaries, data flows, classified enclave constraints, and ATO-impact analysis.
• Strong written communication and ability to produce concise, reviewable architecture and integration artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the integrated architecture baseline, interface catalog, dependency map, assumptions/constraints register, and architecture action log.
• Translate Chief Architect direction into coordinated domain work packages, interface-control documents, integration sequencing, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead cross-domain design workshops, technical interchange meetings, integration engineering reviews, and production-readiness preparation.
• Verify traceability from approved requirements through architecture, detailed design, build configuration, test evidence, operational documentation, and deployment decision.
• Identify interface conflicts, circular dependencies, boundary ambiguities, and sequencing risks; drive owners to closure before they become production issues.
• Coordinate with Security on control inheritance, boundary changes, data flows, authorization impacts, and evidence requirements.
• Coordinate with Service Operations on supportability, monitoring, logging, backup/recovery, capacity, incident response, and operational acceptance.
• Coordinate with requirements analysts on requirement quality, acceptance criteria, change control, stakeholder decisions, and evidence of user/mission value.
• Maintain architecture decision records and ensure exceptions have documented risk acceptance, expiration, remediation, and accountable owners.
• Serve as acting Chief Architect within delegated limits and provide concise technical status and risk briefings to program and Government leadership.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture (EA)

RMF

Systems Engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the direction of the Chief Architect and serve as a delegated technical authority.

This role translates enterprise-level direction into practical, implementable outcomes. The position focuses on integration across domains, ensuring cohesion between designs, requirements, security controls, test results, and production operations, while guiding cross-team