System Architect – Enterprise Dashboard Security Clearance

Position: System Architect – Enterprise Dashboard with Security Clearance
Overview The System Architect is responsible for defining, owning, and governing the end-to-end system architecture for the Enterprise dashboard, a metrics-driven platform supporting NAVSUP readiness posture assessment. This role ensures that evolving mission requirements are translated into a secure, scalable, and integrated system that delivers accurate, trusted readiness metrics. The System Architect serves as the technical authority across the system lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on data architecture, system integration, and mission alignment.

Responsibilities The following reflects management's definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. System Architecture & Technical Leadership:
* Define, own, and maintain the end-to-end system architecture and technical vision for the Ready Force dashboard, ensuring alignment with NAVSUP mission readiness objectives.
* Serve as the technical authority for system-level architectural decisions, standards, and design tradeoffs.
* Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity requirements, and applicable DoD and industry best practices. Requirements & Pilot Support
* Translate high-level, evolving stakeholder and operational requirements into system capabilities, architectural patterns, and technical solutions, particularly during pilot execution.
* Lead architectural trade studies, impact analyses, and option evaluations to support informed decision-making as requirements mature. Data & Metrics Architecture
* Define and govern the system data architecture, including authoritative data sources, data models, interfaces, and data flows.
* Establish and maintain readiness metric definitions, normalization rules, and data lineage to ensure accuracy, consistency, traceability, and auditability.
* Collaborate with operational, functional, and analytics stakeholders to validate that dashboard metrics accurately represent readiness posture. Systems Integration & Engineering
* Lead the design, evaluation, and implementation of system integration solutions, ensuring seamless interoperability across internal and external systems.
* Develop and maintain system integration documentation, interface control documents (ICDs), process maps, and technical standards to support consistent and repeatable integration practices.
* Coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams, system owners, and program managers to ensure integrated planning and synchronized execution of upgrades, migrations, and deployments. Non-Functional Requirements & Operational Readiness
* Define and enforce non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, and reliability appropriate for mission-critical operational use.
* Architect solutions to support operational tempo, surge conditions, and future system growth.
* Provide expert technical support during system incidents and post-implementation reviews to validate architectural integrity and operational effectiveness. Configuration, Change & Lifecycle Governance
* Oversee configuration integrity by reviewing changes to configuration items, validating release packages, and ensuring system documentation is accurate and current.
* Support the Change Advisory Board (CAB) by performing impact analyses, preparing technical assessments, and advising on risks and dependencies for proposed changes.
* Provide architectural oversight across the full system lifecycle, ensuring solutions support long-term maintainability, extensibility, and modernization. Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
* Act as a key technical liaison between NAVSUP stakeholders, program leadership, and engineering teams to ensure shared understanding of system intent, constraints, and risks.
* Clearly communicate architectural decisions, assumptions, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences. Qualifications Skills/

Qualifications:

* Demonstrated experience as a System Architect, Lead Architect, or Principal Engineer…