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# Senior Systems Architect FSP

- **Company:** Tenica and Associates
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Service-Oriented Architecture, IT Architecture
- **Published:** June 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8998494/senior-systems-architect-fsp

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree in a Technical Field of Study
 * AWS Certified Solutions Architect Strongly Recommended or Requisite Experience
 * Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly

Requirements/Abilities:

 * Strong background in software and system level IT architecture
 * Understanding of SOA and cloud architecture approaches
 * Strong analytic skills
 * Excellent customer-facing skills

## Description

As IT Architect Expert, you will be responsible for providing guidance, developing, and maintaining the IT architecture for customer networks., * Identify and successfully document architecture patterns . This involves analyzing and characterizing existing systems (e.g., processing, storage, throughput) in order to identify and recommend potential common enterprise level services and associated architecture patterns.

 * Use existing information (e.g., architecture documentation, design artifacts, etc.), interview subject matter experts, and assess mission criticality in order to determine the prescriptive architecture pattern.
 * Assist in development of a standardized approach for application of these architecture pattern across a large IT enterprise. Some background in Portfolio Management would be helpful.


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