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# Systems Architect

- **Company:** Dezign Concepts LLC
- **Location:** Springfield, VA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Services, Technical Debt, DODAF
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9200381/systems-architect

## About the Role

* Enterprise architecture leadership in a complex, federated, regulated, or mission-oriented IT enterprise.
 * Establishing or maturing an enterprise architecture practice, preferably from a low-maturity or start-up condition.
 * Business architecture, including capability modeling, value streams, operating models, stakeholder outcomes, and investment framing.
 * Technology strategy, portfolio management, lifecycle planning, technical-debt analysis, road mapping, and modernization.
 * Architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and exception processes.
 * Executive-level writing, briefing, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder influence.
 * Ability to distinguish strategic enterprise architecture from solution and technical architecture, engineering execution, cybersecurity authority, and operational authority.

Highly Desired Skills

 * Producing decision-useful current-state, target-state, and transition architectures across multiple technology domains.
 * Knowledge of relevant architecture frameworks and modeling methods, such as DoDAF, UAF, capability-based planning, and minimum viable architecture.
 * Understanding of IC and DoW governance, cybersecurity, acquisition, lifecycle, and operational considerations.
 * Experience applying Sponsor architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and exception processes.

## Description

* Review secure and unsecure phone systems, network and platform hardware and software, and application services to identify modernization and optimization opportunities.
 * Assess lifecycle status, obsolescence, duplication, interoperability, standards alignment, investment dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
 * Identify dependencies, gaps, redundancies, constraints, and risks across infrastructure, applications, data, security, identity, cloud, and networks.
 * Develop technology recommendations and an enterprise roadmap with the Chief Architect, including adoption, sustainment, migration, consolidation, and retirement recommendations.
 * Prepare decision packages documenting alternatives, assumptions, costs, risks, technical debt, standards impacts, and recommendations; brief leadership on overall cost and value.
 * Develop and maintain reference architectures, conformance criteria, exception guidance, and current, target, and transition architecture products.
 * Assess architecture maturity and capability gaps; prioritize initiatives and establish intake, work plans, templates, repositories, and performance measures.
 * Coordinate architecture recommendations with engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure implementable and operationally supportable solutions.