# Systems Architect SME- TS/SCI with Polygraph

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $264,350 - $357,650
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join a mission-critical technology program as a Systems Architect SME, designing, securing, and modernizing a vital communications ecosystem. You'll work on a cloud modernization effort, transforming legacy systems into a cloud-first architecture. The role involves technical leadership, collaboration, and innovation.

Responsibilities:

- Track and manage project requirements in Jira

- Own the overarching system architecture, translating business needs into a technical vision

- Ensure interfaces, monitoring, and audit capabilities integrate cleanly

- Build alignment across stakeholders, gathering input from technical teams and leadership

- Set the technical direction, recommending technologies and techniques

- Champion technically sound, scalable, and secure design

- Develop guiding principles, definitions, and standards for system assets

Requirements:

- 15+ years of related experience

- TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance

- US citizenship required

- Cloud Services – Preferred certification in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Oracle, Google)

- Event Bus Programming experience with publish/subscribe technologies (Microsoft Message Queuing, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Amazon Simple Queue Service)

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- AI-powered career tool for growth opportunities

- Internal mobility team for career goals

The likely salary range for this position is $264,350 - $357,650.

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Services
- Event Bus Programming
- Microsoft Message Queuing
- RabbitMQ
- Apache Kafka
- Amazon Simple Queue Service
- Systems Architecture
- Innovation
- Collaboration

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Azure
- Oracle
- Google

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