Systems Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Perform architecture trade-off analyses and provide recommendations based on business, interface, and performance criteria, including modifications to interactions and interfaces between systems.

• Coordinate, capture, baseline, analyze, and document system architectures that illustrate information flows and data repositories across integrated systems.

• Present architectural recommendations to stakeholders, gather feedback, and pinpoint necessary changes.

• Establish and maintain the concept of operations and the system architecture transition plan, while reviewing changes with stakeholders.

• Create, store, manage, and communicate business process models, diagrams, and visual representations that detail target-state processes.

• Evaluate potential impacts on infrastructure, core services, business operations, and maintenance, and suggest requirement or design modifications.

• Coordinate efforts to ensure adherence to information systems security requirements, security documentation, and controls.

• Propose strategies to address identified architecture gaps and advance technology to align with business needs.

• Review enterprise-wide changes and system migration plans to assess project impact, monitor risk, and develop mitigation strategies.

• Utilize agile methodologies to iteratively incorporate new technologies, delivering and validating the target-state architecture in increments through demonstrations and pilots.

• Act as the technical architecture liaison for client governance and development partners, supporting the implementation of new operational capabilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree along with a minimum of seven (7) years of experience in architecture design that supports systems, program, or business requirements, as well as present and future cross-functional needs and interfaces, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proven experience leading collaborative assessments of workflows, business process models, organization, and planning to construct and design technical solutions, and to make recommendations or implement requirements.

• Familiarity with the principles of object-oriented application development, relational database architecture, system interfaces, and integration patterns.

• Experience in applying agile methodologies for the iterative integration of new technologies.

• Capability to comprehend complex technical concepts and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with diverse technical and non-technical audiences.

• Exceptional organizational and planning abilities.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills demonstrated through previous experiences.

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint.

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Federal public trust suitability determination, along with U.S. work authorization adequate to fulfill E-Verify requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.

• Opportunities for professional development and continued education.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.