Senior Computer Systems Architect — Modern IT & Security

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

Job summary

National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, MD seeks a Computer Systems Architect to modernize IT architecture, assess research-driven changes, and align data models with evolving requirements. You will work with multiple teams to evaluate solutions, ensure security, and deliver compliant IT architectures.

The role requires CS foundational knowledge, lifecycle experience, and potential JCAC-related credentials; salary ranges reflect seniority and location.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS with foundational CS coursework (algorithms, data structures, computer architecture).
• Relevant experience across lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance.
• Military JCAC training 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

System administration

Programming languages

Database design

Network protocols

Virtualization

Cloud architecture

Security architectures

Firewalls

HPC / data center

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in CS or related

Doctoral degree

Associate's degree + 5 years experience

Tools

NiFi

MongoDB

Job description

National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, MD seeks a Computer Systems Architect to modernize IT architecture, assess research-driven changes, and align data models with evolving requirements. You will work with multiple teams to evaluate solutions, ensure security, and deliver compliant IT architectures.

The role requires CS foundational knowledge, lifecycle experience, and potential JCAC-related credentials; salary ranges reflect seniority and location.