System Architect - Fort Worth, Texas

Davidson has distinguished itself in the aerospace and missile defense industry with an outstanding reputation for excellence. Specifically, we're recognized for hiring noted experts, experienced engineers and scientists dedicated to designing and delivering advanced, intelligent technology solutions in defense of our Nation.

Davidson is seeking a System Architect in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Job Responsibilities

• Define and maintain system architectures that satisfy stakeholder needs and align with technical roadmaps and business objectives.

• Lead the architectural design of complex systems, including hardware, software, and interfaces, ensuring coherence, scalability, and performance.

• Translate high-level mission and system requirements into detailed architectural specifications, design documents, and implementation guidance.

• Evaluate alternative architectural approaches, technologies, and design solutions to address technical challenges, performance requirements, reliability, safety, and mission needs.

• Provide technical leadership for system architecture activities, including architectural analysis, design reviews, interface management, and technology assessments.

• Develop and maintain system architectural documentation, including architectural views, design rationales, interface specifications, integration plans, and architecture decision records.

• Collaborate with Systems Engineers, Software Architects, Hardware Engineers, Product Owners, and other technical stakeholders to resolve system-level technical issues, risks, dependencies, and design conflicts.

• Support system integration and verification activities, including development of integration strategies, interface test plans, system-level test scenarios, and coordination of hardware/software integration efforts.

• Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of systems engineering and architecture practices, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE), architecture frameworks (such as DoDAF or FEAF), and configuration management.

• Ensure system architectures meet applicable quality, cybersecurity, safety, performance, reliability, maintainability, and customer requirements, including adherence to relevant standards (e.g., ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010, DoD architecture standards).

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers and contribute to the development of systems engineering processes, architecture standards, and best practices.

• Hold technical accountability for the quality, integrity, and successful execution of system architectural deliverables within the assigned area of responsibility.

Job Requirements

• Strong, hands-on experience across the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements analysis, system architecture and design, integration, verification, and validation.

• Demonstrated experience developing system architectures for complex, mission-critical, embedded, or distributed systems.

• Experience with system architecture and design principles, including modularity, layered architecture, service-oriented architecture, and hardware/software partitioning.

• Solid understanding of systems engineering methodologies and architecture frameworks, including DoDAF, FEAF, TOGAF, or similar.

• Experience with system modeling and analysis tools (e.g., SysML, UML, MagicDraw, Enterprise Architect, or similar).

• Experience with system development tools and environments, including requirements management, issue tracking, and configuration management systems.

• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and/or DevSecOps development environments at the system level.

• Experience developing and maintaining system technical documentation and engineering artifacts.

• Ability to troubleshoot complex system-level issues and work collaboratively with systems, hardware, software, test, cybersecurity, and other engineering disciplines.

• Minimum of Ten (10) years of relevant systems engineering or system architecture experience on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Four (4) years of additional relevant systems engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Desired Competencies

• Experience developing safety-critical, mission-critical, or high-reliability system architectures, including familiarity with applicable standards such as MIL-STD-882, DO-254, or related development and verification standards.

• Experience developing system architectures for DoD, aerospace, defense, or other complex system-of-systems environments.

• Familiarity with DoD system cybersecurity requirements, including Risk Management Framework (RMF) and system-level security architecture principles.

• Experience with system architecture and collaboration tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, IBM Rational Rhapsody, Visual Paradigm, or similar tools.

• Experience with embedded systems, real-time systems, distributed systems, or hardware/software integration at the architectural level.

• Experience with system performance analysis, reliability modeling, safety analysis, and architectural trade studies.

• Prior experience supporting strategic missile, weapons, aerospace, or other mission-critical systems at the architectural level.

• Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture, or a related technical discipline.

Clearance Requirements

• Active DoD Security Clearance at the Secret level or above.