Senior Systems Architect

Vosper Thornycroft Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG is seeking a Senior Systems Architect to design and oversee enterprise architectures that span multiple business lines. You will craft high-level system designs, assess options, and align IT with business goals across APIs and external environments.

You will ensure open standards compliance, integrate future acquisitions, and guide implementation while traveling extensively. A technical BA/BS and active Secret clearance are prerequisites for this role.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in a technical discipline with 10+ years of experience.
• Must have and maintain a Secret clearance; Top Secret eligible.
• Willing to travel 75% or more.

Responsibilities

• Design architecture including software, hardware, and communications to meet current and future requirements.
• Identify options for meeting functional/technical requirements and recommend upgrades.
• Develop high-level system design diagrams.
• Ensure compliance with open systems, OSI/IEEE/OSE references and applicable APIs.
• Promote alignment of IT environment with business goals and growth.
• Collaborate with Director to design robust, scalable products across lines of business.
• Oversee architecture activities across design, development, testing, and deployment.

Skills

Systems architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Education

BA/BS in a technical discipline

Tools

Modeling tools

Job description

Overview

VTG is seeking a Senior Systems Architect to support our customer.

What will you do?

• Designs architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces.
• Identifies, assesses, and presents options for meeting the functional and technical requirements including hardware and software updates or upgrades.
• Responsible for developing high level system design diagrams.
• Ensures these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for open systems architectures, the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and International Standards Organization (ISO) reference models, and profiles of standards - such as Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Open Systems Environment (OSE) reference model - as they apply to the implementation and specification of Information Management (IM) solution of the application platform, across the application program interface (API), and the external environment/software application.
• Ensures that the common operating environment is compliant.
• Evaluates analytically and systematically problems of work flows, organization and planning and develops appropriate corrective action.
• Supports the design of software system solutions to support the integration of future business acquisitions and growth.
• Oversees the quality of the organization's systems architecture, including application design, development, testing, and deployment for business to business solutions.
• Promotes growth in applications, working to align the internal IT environment with business goals.
• Researches, plans, develops, and designs, in collaboration with the Director, a deep technical solution for new products that improve business efficiency of the current systems and deliver a robust and scalable integrated product across various lines of businesses.
• Designs and supports business processes using modeling tools.
• Integrates various systems and high-caliber technical insights to arrive at a target state model and overall architecture for a program.
• Explores and designs new long-term solutions for problems in the systems.
• Perform technical configurations, such as network communications and adapter configuration.
• Evaluates various integration capabilities; and researches new technologies within databases, integration, and applicable rules needed to drive product implementation.
• Participates in architecture, line of business, and center of excellence meetings to socialize the architecture.

Do you have what it takes?

• Must have a BA/BS in a technical discipline with at least 10 years of experience.
• Must have and maintain a Secret clearance.
• Eligible for a Top Secret.
• Willing to travel 75% or more

VTG’s estimated starting pay range is $104,259-$165,327 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.