Systems Architect

Dezign Concepts LLC; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dezign Concepts LLC is seeking a Systems Architect to consolidate IT support and development across Sponsor applications and systems. You will design phased plans, implement Agile adoption, and establish governance for documentation, services, and reference architecture.

The role requires coordinating between design, engineering, and product teams, with a focus on accessibility, UX/UI improvements, and efficient delivery. Strong collaboration across sponsor organizations is essential.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience coordinating between design, engineering, and product stakeholders.
• Experience managing technical documentation such as API docs, migration guides, changelogs, and user support materials.
• Experience driving adoption initiatives across product teams.
• Experience managing design systems or component libraries.
• Experience with project management (waterfall and agile) and leading software teams.
• Experience implementing best practices aligned with accessibility and agile methodologies.
• Experience proposing UX/UI improvements to raise quality and delivery speed.
• Experience documenting web-based apps, systems, and interfaces, including databases and web services/APIs.

Responsibilities

• Oversee consolidation and optimization of IT technical support and development for sponsor applications and systems.
• Work core hours from 0900 to 1500 hours.
• Develop phased project plans with roles and resource projections to consolidate IT support and development.
• Develop an Agile methodology implementation plan for sponsor adoption.
• Develop a document management plan addressing required documents, storage locations, and versioning.
• Develop a service management plan detailing tiered support for all applications and systems.
• Develop a reference architecture for adoption by sponsor applications and systems.

Job description

Systems Architect

Deliver human capital management technologies and services to the workforce, including data analytics that enable business decisions.

Location: McLean, VA

Salary:
(salary is commensurate with education and experience)

Clearance: Active
TOP SECRET with Polygraph required

Job Code: 20261028-4658-01

The Opportunity

Our customer seeks to build an integrated enterprise IT support model to drive efficiencies in the talent space and better address strategic requirements associated with learning, training compliances, foreign language development and retention, job advertisements, selection, and performance.

What You Will Do

• Oversee the consolidation and optimization of IT technical support and development for the Sponsor applications and systems.
• Work core hours from 0900 hours to 1500 hours.
• Develop a phased project plan, with implementation roles and resource projections, to consolidate IT technical support and development for the Sponsor's applications and systems.
• Develop an Agile methodology implementation plan, with roles, for Sponsor
  adoption.
• Develop a document management plan to address documents required for all Sponsor applications and systems, their storage locations and versioning requirements.
• Develop a service management plan, documenting Sponsor's tiered support for all applications and systems.
• Develop a reference architecture for adoption by all Sponsor applications and systems.

Required Experience

• Demonstrated experience coordinating between design, engineering, and product stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience managing and performing quality assurance for technical documentation, including usage guidelines, API documentation, migration guides, changelogs, and user support materials.
• Demonstrated experience driving adoption initiatives across product teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing design system or component library projects.
• Demonstrated experience with project management responsibilities, waterfall and agile, including leading software development teams.
• Demonstrated experience implementing industry best practices and associated technical solutions consistent with accessibility standards and agile methodology.
• Demonstrated experience proposing recommendations, with an emphasis on improving User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), reducing O&M, increasing quality and speed of delivery.
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing and documenting web-based application, system, and service components and associated interfaces, including those with databases and web services/APIs to assist in decision-making regarding future development.
• Demonstrated experience managing user support processes, including triage,escalation work:flows, and knowledge base development.
• Demonstrated experience managing user support processes, including triage, escalation work:flows, and knowledge base development.
• Demonstrated experience developing and briefing IT support documents that include SOPs, digital IT workflows, IT knowledge base, pre and post deployment checklists, IT architectural diagrams, system security plans, and administrative processes.

Highly Desired Experience

• Demonstrated experience working with Sponsor and partner IT organizations.
• Demonstrated experience with design tool governance (Figma libraries, design tokens, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience with cloud technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with networking and platform hosting technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with AI/SI integration into existing business workflows.

Dezign Concepts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.