# Principal Architect - Active Top Secret required

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $165,750 - $224,250
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Principal Architect to provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for a complex enterprise IT environment. This role will be responsible for developing scalable, secure, and resilient technical solutions while supporting operational excellence and long-term modernization objectives.

The Principal Architect will work closely with customer leadership, program management, and engineering teams to define future-state architectures, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide technical execution across the enterprise.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop enterprise architecture strategies aligned to customer objectives.

- Design scalable, secure, and resilient technical solutions.

- Lead architecture reviews and design sessions.

- Evaluate current-state environments and identify improvement opportunities.

- Define target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps.

- Assess technology solutions and recommend strategic investments.

- Support technical decision-making through analysis, prototyping, and proof-of-concept activities.

- Identify technical debt and develop remediation strategies.

- Provide architectural leadership for modernization and transformation efforts.

- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural designs.

- Present technical recommendations to customer and program leadership.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. Experience may be substituted for education.

- Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems engineering, or technical leadership roles.

- Expertise in:

- Enterprise architecture

- Infrastructure architecture

- Security architecture

- Cloud and hybrid environments

- Experience developing architecture roadmaps and modernization strategies.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Growth opportunities with AI-powered career tool

- Internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

The likely salary range for this position is $165,750 - $224,250.

## Skills

### Required
- Enterprise Architecture
- Information Technology
- Technical Support
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Security Architecture
- Cloud and hybrid environments

### Nice to have
- Azure or AWS Solution Architect
- Active CISSP or CSSIP
- Microsoft Certified Windows Server Hybrid Administrator

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