Senior Computer Systems Architect - Data, Cloud & Security

CNSS • National Security Systems; Arbutus (MD); On-site; USD 105,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

NSA seeks Computer Systems Architects to modernize IT architecture using commercial and government-developed hardware, software, networking, and security products. You will analyze research, introduce changes, and align data models to support project requirements.

Responsibilities include collaborating with technical teams, ensuring compliance results, and shaping information transport across IT systems while leveraging emerging technologies and standards.

Qualifications

• The qualifications listed are the minimum acceptable to be considered for the position. Degree must be in Computer Science (CS). Related fields (e.g., Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology, Information Systems) may be considered relevant if the programs contain, at minimum, a concentration of courses in the following foundational CS areas: algorithms; computer architecture (not network architecture); programming methodologies and languages; data structures; logic and computation; and advanced mathematics (for example, calculus, discrete mathematics). Relevant experience must be in the design/development of computer or information systems and include engineering hardware and/or software over their lifecycle (i.e., requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, integration, deployment/installation, and maintenance), programming, computer systems research, reverse engineering, and/or computer/network security. Completion of military training in a relevant area such as

Responsibilities

• Modernize IT architecture through analysis of research and introducing changes based on evolving project requirements
• Integrate industry trends, emerging technologies and standards and new vendor features
• Collaborate with experts in technical and application teams to identify, evaluate and recommend technical solutions to support project requirements
• Produce compliance results for established project requirements and IT architecture
• Define and analyze data requirements, mapping legacy data stores and formats to logical and physical data models
• Propose standard ways for information transport between IT systems and stored within corporate knowledge databases
• Perform architectural alignment of the enterprise logical data model and physical data models

Skills

System administration

Programming & scripting

Cloud architecture

Security architectures

High performance computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Windows

UNIX

Linux

NiFi

MongoDB

Scripting languages

Job description

NSA seeks Computer Systems Architects to modernize IT architecture using commercial and government-developed hardware, software, networking, and security products. You will analyze research, introduce changes, and align data models to support project requirements.

Responsibilities include collaborating with technical teams, ensuring compliance results, and shaping information transport across IT systems while leveraging emerging technologies and standards.