# Systems Architect

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Fort Meade, MD
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a results-driven Systems Architect to join the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Enterprise Center (NEC) team at Fort Meade, MD.

As a Systems Architect on the contract’s Configuration Management Team, you will work with government customers to establish system information requirements and design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure architectures integrating software, hardware, and communications.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Design the blueprint for mission-critical systems , Establish system information requirements and architect end-to-end solutions across software, hardware, and communications that meet today's demands while scaling for tomorrow's cross-functional needs.

- Keep the enterprise in sync , Maintain the NC3 Configuration Management Plan and Baseline, driving change control, configuration identification, status accounting, and audits that keep complex systems accurate, secure, and mission-ready.

- Modernize how work gets done , Champion the digital engineering strategy by automating and digitizing configuration management workflows, building federated data frameworks, and streamlining audit and verification processes.

- Solve problems that matter , Analyze workflow and organizational challenges, identify gaps, and develop smart corrective actions that improve performance and strengthen the broader NC3 Enterprise.

- Collaborate at the highest levels , Partner with configuration control boards, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders to review change requests, present findings, and shape decisions that safeguard national security missions.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI clearance (mandatory).

- Education: BA or BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or educational equivalent.

- Experience: 5+ years in establishing system information requirements, designing architecture, and evaluating problems of workflows and organization.

- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools (MS Teams, SharePoint).

- Communication: Strong written/verbal skills for technical documentation and presentations.

- Work Style: Ability to manage multiple tasks in an agile, dynamic environment.

**Desired Qualifications**

- The Open Group Framework (TOGAF) certification.

- DoD Architecture Framework (DODAF) certification.

- Experience with systems engineering and enterprise architecture for high assurance communications systems.

- Background in NC3 architecture/performance analysis and engineering design.

- Knowledge of National Leadership Command Capability or Senior Leader Command, Control, and Communications Systems.

**Pay Range:** $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office Suite
- MS Teams
- SharePoint
- Top Secret/SCI clearance
- Engineering
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- The Open Group Framework (TOGAF) certification
- DoD Architecture Framework (DODAF) certification
- systems engineering
- enterprise architecture

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