Solutions Architect Senior Principal

General Dynamics Information Technology; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Full-flex work week

Comprehensive benefits and wellness

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology seeks a Sr Principal Solutions Architect to design and guide enterprise architecture for government IT deployments. Remote work is available with travel 10-25% and a Secret-level clearance often preferred.

The role emphasizes DoDAF/UAF/TOGAF adherence, MBSE methods, and high-quality collaboration with customers to modernize networks, migrate data center apps to cloud, and define scalable digital platforms.

Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent experience and 10+ years in architecture roles.
• Experience with DoW frameworks (DoDAF, UAF, UPDM) and model-based systems engineering.
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and modernize infrastructure and services, including cloud migration guidance.
• Collaborate with customers to develop IT strategies supporting mission needs.
• Define enterprise architecture roadmaps and ensure DoW/adopted frameworks alignment.
• Lead MBSE modeling and architecture development per UAF standards.
• Provide expert knowledge of information security and data architectures.

Skills

UML modeling

DoDAF 2.0/UPDM

SysML

UAF

MBSE

Cameo Enterprise Architect

Stakeholder engagement

Education

BA/BS or equivalent experience

Tools

Cameo Enterprise Architect

UML tooling

Job description

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT SR PRINCIPAL

Mission:

GDIT is the leading systems integrator in the Zero Trust Defense sector market—developing and delivering innovative solutions to government customers. Our Zero Trust business is experiencing rapid growth, and this is an opportunity to join our team and be a part of creating Cybersecurity solutions that make a real impact.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes and recommends improvements to existing infrastructure and service offerings, including guidance and support in modernizing and securing networks, refactoring applications, and migrating remaining data center applications to the cloud.
• Work in partnership with customers to understand and participate in the development of new mission support IT strategies assessing current and future skills and technologies to support emerging mission needs.
• Makes recommendations to the customer in the shaping of the future of enterprise architecture and roadmaps for the command.
• Assesses DoW frameworks (DoDAF, UAF, TOGAF) and helps to ensure implemented use cases adhere to that framework.
• Develops “as is” and “to be” architecture and solutions focusing on scalability and extensibility.
• Assists in executing and maintaining enterprise Agile/SAFe activities.
• Leads model development and curation for the enterprise architecture, utilizing MBSE methods according to UAF standards.
• Defines digital platform architecture frameworks, including design methodology and best practices to be used as a reference for the Architecture team.
• Implements the platform under the control of an automated configuration management framework.
• Provides in-depth knowledge of information security.
• Holds responsibility for the architecture of the data framework that is required by the operations to collect and make available program performance metrics.

Required Skills/Duties:

• Must be capable of performing analysis of system operations.
• Must be capable of system decomposition via OMG frameworks (UML, DoDAF 2.0/UPDM, SysML, UAF).
• Must be able to model systems via different perspectives (e.g. capability, operational, system, functional) and at various levels of abstraction.
• Must be familiar with UML modeling tools (Cameo Enterprise Architect preferred).
• Must be able to meet with stakeholders in a variety of system domains and analyze requirement, process, system, and/or capability.
• Must be capable of extending UML-based models to other tools or modeling environments via existing frameworks/APIs.
• Must be familiar with executable models (fUML specification preferred).
• Must have the ability to generate/produce data and reports.
• Interact and professionally exhibit customer service skills and be able to present a positive approach with customers and peers.

Desired Skills:

• Experience modeling complex systems for DoW or other government organizations.
• Experience publishing models to web-based or document-based formats.
• Experience in a fast-paced, time-sensitive, high-quality environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills along with strong customer service.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize commitments, and manage time effectively including attention to detail.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Education & Experience: BA/BS (or equivalent experience) and 10+ years of experience.
Required Certifications: CISSP or Security+ CE or CASP+ or CCSP or Cloud+ or CSSLP or other DoD 8140 certification.
Required: Ability to Obtain ITIL 4 Foundation.
Desired Certifications: Crestron Certified Programmer (CCP) or Certified User Experience Designer (CUED), or Python Certification (PCAP or similar).

Location:

Remote.

Travel:

10-25%

Security Clearance:

Minimum Secret.

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Support:

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Rewards:

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

Flexibility:

Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

Community:

Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

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Compensation:

The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $201,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

10-25%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Total Rewards at GDIT:

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Identity Verification Process:

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