# Deputy Chief Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $178,500 - $241,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT is seeking a Deputy Chief Architect to provide daily systems integration leadership under the direction of the Chief Architect and serve as a delegated technical authority when needed. This role translates enterprise-level direction into practical, implementable outcomes.

The position is heavily focused on integration, ensuring cohesion between domain-specific designs, program requirements, security controls, test results, and operational acceptance; effectively closing gaps between design, implementation, and production operations.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Maintain the integrated architecture baseline, interface catalog, dependency map, assumptions/constraints register, and architecture action log.

- Translate Chief Architect direction into coordinated domain work packages, interface-control documents, integration sequencing, and acceptance criteria.

- Lead cross-domain design workshops, technical interchange meetings, integration engineering reviews, and production-readiness preparation.

- Verify traceability from approved requirements through architecture, detailed design, build configuration, test evidence, operational documentation, and deployment decision.

- Identify interface conflicts, circular dependencies, boundary ambiguities, and sequencing risks; drive owners to closure before they become production issues.

- Coordinate with Security on control inheritance, boundary changes, data flows, authorization impacts, and evidence requirements.

- Coordinate with Service Operations on supportability, monitoring, logging, backup/recovery, capacity, incident response, and operational acceptance.

- Coordinate with requirements analysts on requirement quality, acceptance criteria, change control, stakeholder decisions, and evidence of user/mission value.

- Maintain architecture decision records and ensure exceptions have documented risk acceptance, expiration, remediation, and accountable owners.

- Serve as acting Chief Architect within delegated limits and provide concise technical status and risk briefings to program and Government leadership.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline, or approved equivalent experience.

- 10+ years of systems engineering, solution architecture, integration architecture, or enterprise IT engineering experience in complex environments.

- 5+ years leading multi-team integration, interface management, technical governance, or large solution delivery.

- Demonstrated experience integrating cloud, identity, network, security, applications, data, observability, automation, and operations across organizational boundaries.

- Strong command of requirements decomposition, interface control, dependency management, verification planning, configuration baselines, and production-readiness criteria.

- Experience with architecture review boards, engineering review boards, change control, risk management, and documented technical decision processes.

- Working knowledge of RMF, security control implementation, trust boundaries, data flows, classified enclave constraints, and ATO-impact analysis.

- Ability to lead through influence, challenge incomplete designs, reconcile competing domain priorities, and drive documented closure.

- Strong written communication and the ability to produce concise, reviewable architecture and integration artifacts.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- Paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

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## Skills

### Required
- Enterprise Architecture (EA)
- RMF
- Systems Engineering

### Nice to have
- model-based systems engineering
- DoDAF/UAF
- SysML
- architecture repositories
- automated requirements/traceability tooling

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