Senior Mission Systems Architect

NT Concepts

Chantilly, Vienna (VA, VA)

On-site

USD 131,000 - 244,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

NT Concepts seeks a System Architect to shape the technical direction of a mission-focused program blending software, data, and AI. The role partners with stakeholders, product leadership, and engineering teams to translate operational challenges into capable systems from concept to deployment.

Under TS/SCI clearance and US Citizenship, you will lead architecture decisions across applications, data services, and AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring secure, scalable, and sustainment-ready solutions

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems engineering, data science, or a related technical field.
At least 10 years of experience in systems architecture, software engineering, or complex technology delivery.
Demonstrated experience designing and evolving software-intensive systems that support operational or mission users.
Experience translating ambiguous mission or business problems into executable technical approaches, systems concepts and engineering requirements.
Experience communicating technical concepts in demonstrations, design reviews, and customer facing technical exchanges.
Knowledge of modern software architecture, including APIs, distributed services, data platforms, cloud-native technologies, and deployment patterns.
Experience supporting the full engineering lifecycle from concept development and prototyping through integration, deployment, and sustainment.
Working knowledge of data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, and generative AI concepts.
Experience integrating AI/ML or data science capabilities into user-facing applications and operational workflows.

Responsibilities

Own and communicate the technical vision and systems architecture for mission capabilities throughout the solution lifecycle.
Engage mission users and stakeholders to understand operational needs, workflows, constraints, and desired outcomes.
Translate mission needs into system concepts, architecture decisions, and technical requirements.
Define, document and maintain system architecture across applications, data services, integration components, and AI/ML enabled capabilities.
Guide the evolution of prototypes into secure, scalable, and supportable operational solutions.
Establish architectural patterns that enable modular development, rapid integration, and future capability growth.
Evaluate technical alternatives and communicate tradeoffs involving mission value, performance, security, cost, schedule and maintainability.
Partner with software engineers to define application boundaries, service interactions, APIs, and deployment patterns.
Define and develop approaches for ingesting, organizing, enriching, exploiting structured and unstructured data.
Collaborate with data scientists and AI/ML engineers to incorporate models into mission workflows.
Define technical approaches for model integration, evaluation, monitoring, and human oversight.
Guide the development of data pipelines that support analytics, machine learning, and operational decision-making.
Lead architecture reviews and contribute to technical planning across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Identify architectural, technical and integration risks early and develop practical mitigation strategies.
Maintain architecture artifacts, interface definitions, decision records, requirements traceability and technical roadmaps.
Support demonstrations, technical exchanges, and design review and architectural discussions with Government stakeholders.
Mentor engineers and promote sound architecture, software, data, security and systems engineering practices across the programs.