Senior Systems Architect

Vosper Thornycroft Group; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Vosper Thornycroft Group in the United States is seeking a Senior Systems Architect to design and oversee the enterprise architecture across software, hardware, and communications to meet current and future needs.

You will develop high-level system designs, ensure open standards compliance (OSI/ISO/IEEE), support integration of acquisitions, and guide cross-functional teams toward a scalable, robust solution.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in a technical discipline required.
• Secret clearance required.
• Willing to travel 75% or more.

Responsibilities

• Designs architecture to include software, hardware, and communications to support current and future cross-functional requirements.
• Develops high level system design diagrams and ensures OSI/ISO/IEEE standards compliance.
• Oversees architecture quality, deployment, and integration of future acquisitions across platforms.
• Collaborates with leadership to align IT architecture with business goals and growth plans.

Skills

Secret clearance

75% travel+

Education

BA/BS in a technical discipline

Job description

Overview

VTG is seeking a Senior Systems Architectto 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.