Chief Systems Architect

Position Title

Chief Systems Architect

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Information Technology

Secret (Active)

US-Virginia-Tysons Corner

Regular Full-Time

The Chief Systems Architect supports the United States Space Force (USSF) for the Ground-Based Radar Digitization (GBRD) program to establish, implement, and facilitate a common Integrated Digital Environment (IDE) platform.

• Develop and implement model governance and standards (including SysML language, style, quality, and completeness) to ensure federated models for design interoperability.
• Support the Design and Architectural Working Group to develop, clarify, amend, or maintain model governance and coordinate collaborative workflows, including documenting and submitting the “to-be” branch for validation and transition to the main branch.
• Incorporate and publish updates to model governance from the government’s concurrence to adjudicated amendments.
• Capture and maintain the Common Architecture Baseline (CAB), including Modular System Interfaces, as a “digital master” model with defined interfaces for vendors to complete with internal details.
• Collaboratively develop the CAB during requirements discovery and architectural development phase of the GBRD Program (Gate 1 out of
  3), refining and aligning proposed designs to a common architecture and modularity level.
• Provide architectural analysis and decision support to the government in a Technical Analysis Package before CAGBs, detailing compliance scores, interface status, and technical risks.
• Continuously validate Prime Contractor system models against the Government-provided ‘GBRD Enterprise MBSE/MOSA Standards Document(s)’ for correctness, consistency, and compliance.
• Generate regular ‘model compliance scorecards’ for each Prime and deliver them to the Government and the CAGB to validate all Radar Vendor models.
• Ensure models are built correctly to enable federation, meet style and governance standards, support collaboration, and are semantically and syntactically complete.
• Ensure the design in the models conforms to MOSA, interoperability, and architectural requirements.
• Collect and formalize the MOSA standard for GBRD architecture and develop MOSA Compliance Evaluation Criteria to grade radar designs.
• Develop and implement a model submission process for version tracking.
• Assess models against governance standards.
• Maintain a live, shared dashboard visualizing each design’s MOSA compliance and flagging non-conformances.
• Identify critical cross-vendor interface or architectural risks in the Monthly Validation Report.
• Advise the government on opportunities to integrate MBSE techniques and model-based collaboration into design reviews.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• OCSMP (OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Professional) or equivalent certification.
• 10 years of systems engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), open architecture standards, and digital engineering environments.
• Secret Clearance.

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Earned Bonuses & Awards
• Professional Training Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

Equal opportunity employer. Protected veteran. Disability. Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.