Senior/Expert Computer Systems Architect

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

Job summary

CNSS • National Security Systems seeks Computer Systems Architects to modernize IT architecture using diverse hardware, software, and security products for national security projects. You will analyze research, integrate trends, and define data models to support complex requirements.

Responsibilities include collaboration across technical teams, ensuring compliance, and proposing secure transport between systems. NSA-grade standards may apply for data architecture and deployment lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science with core CS coursework in algorithms, architecture, data structures and computation.
• Experience in designing and developing computer or information systems across their lifecycle (requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance).
• Military training in JCAC or equivalent may count toward experience.

Responsibilities

• Modernize IT architecture through analysis and changes based on evolving project requirements.
• Integrate industry trends, emerging technologies, standards and new vendor features.
• Collaborate with technical teams to identify, evaluate and recommend solutions for project requirements.
• Produce compliance results for project requirements and IT architecture.
• Define and analyze data requirements, mapping legacy data stores to logical/physical data models.
• Propose standard information transport between IT systems and corporate knowledge databases.
• Align enterprise data models with physical data models.

Skills

Windows

UNIX

Linux

C/C++

Java

Assembly

Python

SQL/Databasedesign

Networking

Virtualization

Cloud architecture

Security architectures

Firewalls

HPC/data center

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in CS or related field

Doctoral degree (with related experience)

Associate degree + 5 years relevant experience

Tools

NiFi

MongoDB

Job description

CNSS • National Security Systems seeks Computer Systems Architects to modernize IT architecture using diverse hardware, software, and security products for national security projects. You will analyze research, integrate trends, and define data models to support complex requirements.

Responsibilities include collaboration across technical teams, ensuring compliance, and proposing secure transport between systems. NSA-grade standards may apply for data architecture and deployment lifecycle.