# Lead Systems Engineering Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Lackland AFB, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $157,250 - $212,750
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join GDIT's mission-driven team supporting the Department of Defense as we help unify the Air Force's cyber defense to outpace threats with shared insight, faster decisions, and stronger mission protection.

The Lead Systems Engineering Architect will design, govern, and maintain the hybrid enterprise architecture, explicitly defining physical/logical boundaries, data flow, and cloud-to-on-prem networking.

Key responsibilities:

- Conduct independent, objective Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) for architecture decisions, integrating technology assessments, cost, and trade-off analysis.

- Develop, govern, and maintain authoritative digital models of the large DoW Defensive Cyber hybrid enterprise architecture using standard MBSE languages (e.g., SysML).

- Continuously update enterprise models based on internal deployment feedback and independent configuration audits.

- Lead rigorous AoAs, author cost-benefit analyses, and support ERB/ARB/CCB governance boards with technical justifications and architecture artifacts.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of related experience.

- Master's degree in a relevant field.

- Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

- Advanced proficiency in MBSE tooling and SysML modeling, enterprise architecture frameworks (DoWAF), and multi-domain hybrid cloud/on-prem network design.

Benefits:

- 401K with company match.

- Comprehensive health and wellness packages.

- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.

- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.

- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.

- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.

The likely salary range for this position is $157,250 - $212,750.

## Skills

### Required
- Architecture Frameworks
- Enterprise Architecture (EA)
- System Modeling
- Team Leadership
- MBSE
- SysML

### Nice to have
- Hybrid enterprise architecture design
- AoA
- Governance
- Cross-domain solutions
- Multi-classification data flows
- Secure enterprise architectures

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