Senior Computer Systems Architect — Modern IT & Data Models

CNSS • National Security Systems; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 105,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

NSA is seeking Computer Systems Architects at the Fort George G. Meade Complex, MD to modernize IT architecture and integrate industry trends while collaborating with technical teams on solutions. Open: 2026-08-10, Close: 2026-08-23. Please upload transcripts from all schools attended; a CS concentration is required.

The position requires a degree in CS and relevant experience across the software lifecycle. Pay plans vary with education and experience; U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• Degree must be in Computer Science (CS) or related field with foundational CS coursework.
• Relevant experience across requirements analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of computer systems.
• Military training such as JCAC counts toward experience.

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

C/C++

Java

Python

System administration

Security architectures

Cloud architecture

Networking

Virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

NiFi

MongoDB

Windows / UNIX / Linux

Job description

NSA is seeking Computer Systems Architects at the Fort George G. Meade Complex, MD to modernize IT architecture and integrate industry trends while collaborating with technical teams on solutions. Open: 2026-08-10, Close: 2026-08-23. Please upload transcripts from all schools attended; a CS concentration is required.

The position requires a degree in CS and relevant experience across the software lifecycle. Pay plans vary with education and experience; U.S. citizenship is required.