Chief Architect
$205,000–$205,000 year
On-siteLincoln, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Design and evolve the Mission Planning Enterprise architecture, ensuring software, data, and infrastructure form a cohesive, scalable, and interoperable system aligned with DoD and Air Force standards. Drive mission threads, use cases, interface specifications, and architecture conformance monitoring while leading comparisons of vendor and platform designs against government requirements. Serve as the lead designer stewarding the architecture's evolution across the program's life cycle, playing a central role in architecture-related working groups and interface control activities. This role supports the Sea, Land, Air Analysis Group's mission to deliver objective analyses to US Navy, Marine Corps, USAF, and Australian Defence Force clients.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of architecture experience on complex, distributed, software‐intensive systems
- at least 5 years in DoD C2, mission planning, or related domains
- Demonstrated experience designing or managing architectures that include frameworks, common components, and platform‐unique components, including internal and external interfaces
- Strong knowledge of DoD architecture frameworks and technical standards, including net‐centric and interoperability considerations
- Experience with component configuration management and architectural baselines, including tracking versions of frameworks, components, tools, and utilities across multiple environments
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- An active Secret clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in systems architecture/software engineering, or systems engineering
- experience leading architecture and interface control working groups
- authoring/maintaining interface control documents
- Hands‐on familiarity with .NET and native Windows environments
- experience with planning migrations across operating system versions and standard desktop configurations
- Experience monitoring, enforcing, and evolving architecture conformance across multiple programs and vendors
- Demonstrated ability to develop architecture products (views, mission threads, use cases, models) that directly support requirements decomposition, test planning, and integration evaluations
- Prior experience evaluating vendor or COTS/GOTS architectures and products against government reference architectures in source‐selection or trade‐study contexts
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