Senior Systems Architect — DoD MBSE & Architecture Lead

SAIC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Systems Architect to lead architecture development, baseline management, and systems engineering across a complex mission systems ecosystem. You will serve as the architecture lead, ensuring alignment of architecture, baselines, and implementations as the system evolves.

The role involves governance, impact assessments, future-state concepts, and technical leadership across the Systems Engineering organization, with a focus on MBSE practices and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 14+ years of related experience; or Master’s and 12+ years; or PhD and 9+ years.
• TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship.
• Experience in DoD or IC environments with systems engineering and architecture.
• Experience developing architecture products, interfaces, workflows, and system behaviors.
• MBSE tools and methodologies including Cameo, SysML, Teamwork Cloud or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and maintenance of the program's system architecture and technical baseline.
• Develop and maintain architecture products including OV/SV diagrams, context models, use cases, and interfaces.
• Perform architecture impact assessments for new capabilities and system modifications.
• Develop future-state architecture concepts, modernization roadmaps, and technical recommendations.
• Support decomposition of capabilities into system behaviors and interfaces.
• Maintain architecture traceability across requirements and implementation.
• Coordinate with SE, Data Integration, External Integration, Test, Cloud, Cyber, and DevSecOps teams.
• Lead Architecture Review Boards and support CCB activities.
• Conduct trade studies, assessments, and architecture evaluations for program decisions.
• Capture system decisions to improve stakeholder understanding and reduce tribal knowledge.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Systems Engineering and Test personnel.
• Support MBSE and digital engineering adoption where value is added.

Skills

MBSE

SysML

Architecture governance

Mentorship

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree + 14+ years OR Master’s + 12+ years OR PhD + 9+ years

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Cameo

Teamwork Cloud

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Systems Architect to lead architecture development, baseline management, and systems engineering across a complex mission systems ecosystem. You will serve as the architecture lead, ensuring alignment of architecture, baselines, and implementations as the system evolves.

The role involves governance, impact assessments, future-state concepts, and technical leadership across the Systems Engineering organization, with a focus on MBSE practices and cross-team collaboration.