Required Education, Experience, & Skills We are actively seeking highly skilled Systems Architects with a minimum of 16 years' experience. Bachelor's or Master’s Degree are preferred in one or more of the disciplines described below where specific skills may include the following: * Designing and developing architecture solutions for complex applications and IT systems. * Identifying future technology and architectural advancements to support architectural strategy, technology migration, and integration and evolution. * Providing strategic direction, roadmap and standards within area of responsibility. * Developing high-level system specifications. * Creating and maintaining architecture design and standards. * Analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems. * Model-Based System Engineering principles * Enterprise Architecture frameworks and principles * Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) support * Use of Digital Twin to enable virtual designs * Ensuring developed systems comply with the enterprise technical architecture * Assisting in keeping senior management apprised of project or program status * Assisting project and program teams in preparing for program management reviews Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills * IT system automation to include artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) * Experience with automated testing * Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) * Automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, etc.) * Knowledge of Security Development Operations (SecDevOps) on iterative development projects * Cloud design, implementation, and configuration * Experience with Windows network infrastructures including designing, installation, and troubleshooting * Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code * Knowledge of Agile development principles. * Knowledge of modern software languages (e.g. Java, C, C++, C#, Python, Perl, etc.) * Systems engineering tools (DOORS, JAMA, JIRA, etc.)