Deputy Chief Enterprise Architect - TS/SCI with Polygraph

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

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the Chief Architect.

The role focuses on translating enterprise direction into practical outcomes, ensuring cohesion across designs, requirements, security, tests, and operations. The position requires active TS/SCI with Polygraph, 10+ years in systems engineering, and 5+ years leading multi-team integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or approved equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of systems engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise IT in complex environments.
• 5+ years in multi-team integration and technical governance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the integrated architecture baseline, interface catalog, and dependency map.
• Lead cross-domain design workshops and integration reviews.
• Verify traceability from requirements to deployment and operations.
• Coordinate with Security and Service Operations on controls, data flows, and evidence.
• Provide concise technical status and risk briefings to leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Requirements decomposition

Analytical thinking

Education

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

Tools

ServiceNow

RMF

AIOps

Job description

Job Description

GDIT is seeking a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the direction of the Chief Architect and serve as a delegated technical authority when needed. This role translates enterprise-level direction into practical, implementable outcomes. The position is heavily focused on integration, ensuring cohesion between domain-specific designs, program requirements, security controls, test results, and operational acceptance; effectively closing gaps between design, implementation, and production operations. Key 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.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline, or approved equivalent experience.

Location: Onsite

Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

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.

Demonstrated experience integrating cloud, identity, network, security, applications, data, observability, automation, and operations across organizational boundaries.

Strong command of requirements decomposition, interface control, dependency management, verification planning, configuration baselines, and production-readiness criteria.

Experience with architecture review boards, engineering review boards, change control, risk management, and documented technical decision processes.

Working knowledge of RMF, security control implementation, trust boundaries, data flows, classified enclave constraints, and ATO-impact analysis.

Ability to lead through influence, challenge incomplete designs, reconcile competing domain priorities, and drive documented closure.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with model-based systems engineering, DoDAF/UAF, SysML, architecture repositories, or automated requirements/traceability tooling. Experience implementing lifecycle gates and traceability through ServiceNow or a comparable workflow platform. Experience supporting multi-enclave cloud migrations, enterprise identity, VDI/EUC, Cisco/Microsoft coexistence, AIOps, or cATO programs. INCOSE CSEP, TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, Azure Solutions Architect Expert or a relevant cloud architecture credential are preferred. ESEP, relevant SAFe architecture credentials, and ITIL Foundation Version 5 or current ITIL 4 Prior IC experience and direct Government customer-facing responsibility. GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

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Salary

The likely salary range for this position is $178,500 - $241,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Telecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA Chantilly

Total Rewards at GDIT

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.


• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.


• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.


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