Enterprise Architect

Acuity Innovations LLC is a small, woman-owned defense contracting company that provides enterprise architecture, solution design, digital engineering, defensive cyberspace operations, system integration, and test and evaluation products and services that improve performance and decrease decision timelines. Our fundamental, repeatable service offering is bound in architecting, designing, securing, integrating, and verifying the operational readiness of data ecosystems. Acuity Innovations was named as a Colorado Springs Gazette's Best Workplaces 2024.

Do you want to be part of a unique, small business that differentiates itself by:

• Delivering the best products, integrated systems, and mission capabilities for the warfighter

• Building long-term relationships and treating its employees as family

• Deploying small but powerful High-Performance Teams, like elite Special Forces teams to each task

• Collaborating within and across the Acuity Innovations teams as well as with the customer

• Providing a growth path to partnership/ownership opportunities

If you have this type of passion and desire to be part of a collaborative team environment with the innovation, initiative, and confidence to make things better, then Acuity Innovations may be the right place to realize your personal and professional goals.

Package includes:

• Competitive salary

• 3 weeks paid time off

• 11 Federal Holidays

• Flexible Hours

• Benefits

• Career Development/Mentorship Opportunities

• Company Sponsored Social Events

We seek technical individuals who will succeed in a highly collaborative work environment.

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Brief Job Description: Acuity Innovations is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our team. The Enterprise Architect will play a key role in supporting the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 3 Program Integration (T3PI) effort of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). This position is critical to ensuring the seamless integration and evolution of the next generation of space vehicles (SV) and ground segment (GS) elements. The Enterprise Architect will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to design and manage architectural frameworks that enhance capabilities such as missile warning, tracking, and defense, tactical data links, position, navigation, and timing (PNT), and continuous custody of target tracks.

This position supports the SDA's mission to rapidly deliver resilient space-based capabilities that enable the Joint Force to deter and defeat emerging threats.

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture Development: Design and implement enterprise architecture frameworks for Tranche 3 systems, ensuring alignment with SDA's mission objectives and PWSA requirements.

• Integration and Systems Engineering: Support the integration of Tranche 3 Tracking, Transport, and Custody Layers with the PWSA ground and user segments to advance operational capabilities.

• Capability Enhancements: Develop architectural solutions to improve capabilities such as coverage, sensitivity, and accuracy of missile warning and tracking, resilience and capacity of tactical data links, and PNT accuracy and distribution.

• Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams, including SDA, contractors, and stakeholders, to ensure alignment of technical solutions with operational goals.

• Documentation and Analysis: Develop and maintain architectural documentation, diagrams, and analyses to support decision-making and facilitate communication among stakeholders.

• Technology Assessment: Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend their integration to enhance the PWSA's operational effectiveness and resilience.

• Compliance and Standards: Ensure architectural solutions comply with relevant standards, policies, and cybersecurity requirements.

• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement to advance the capabilities and performance of the PWSA.

Required Skills & Experiences:

• Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems engineering, or related roles within space or defense programs.

• Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in developing and managing enterprise architecture frameworks, tools, and methodologies (e.g., DoDAF, TOGAF).

• Experience with space systems integration, ground segment architecture, and operational resilience strategies.

• Familiarity with missile warning/tracking, tactical data links, PNT systems, and autonomous systems integration is highly desired.

• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and secure systems development practices.

• Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex concepts effectively to diverse audiences.

• Ability to work collaboratively in dynamic, cross-disciplinary environments and manage multiple priorities.

Preferred Skills & Experiences:

• Master's degree in computer science or a related field.

• Experience supporting SDA, PWSA, or related Department of Defense (DoD) space programs.

• Knowledge of emerging technologies and their application in space systems, including autonomy, resilience, and distributed architecture design.

• Familiarity with Agile development and systems engineering practices.

Clearance: Eligible for Top Secret w/ SCI

• All applicants selected will be subject to a background check and a security investigation and will need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.