Chief Architect

Peraton is seeking a Chief Architect to join our team of highly skilled, dedicated, and motivated professionals supporting the Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations (CAEIO) Program. The Program provides IT Operations and Maintenance to modernize the legacy networks, applications, and databases supporting CA services globally.

The Chief Architect reports directly to the CAEIO Program Manager and drives the Consular Affairs mission success as a technical leader. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical and architectural leadership on a program of 400+ team members supporting enterprise applications, systems, networks, databases, identity management, infrastructure, security, and cloud.  
• Provide thought leadership on the design, development, implementation, and management of Consular Affairs mission essential and critical systems and services.
• Brief senior Government leadership on current and future state architectures that deliver capabilities to domestic Passport Agencies, overseas Posts, and Consular Affairs locations in the Washington. DC area.
• Lead the development and delivery of architectural diagrams (DoDAF or equivalent) for consumption by executives, program leads, and technical personnel.
• Provide technical leadership to CAEIO projects in the areas of enterprise architecture, information/data flow models, and data dictionaries/standards/structure.
• Develop and maintain the logical enterprise architecture that facilitates interoperability of more than 80 disparate CA applications and their underlying systems and services.
• Collaborate on priority initiatives with CAEIO teams and major stakeholders across CA.
• Leverage authorized tools for the development of Agile epics, features, and stories (in Jira) as well as architectural data and diagrams (in Confluence).
• Ensure architectural efforts consider requirements in areas including security, capacity, and high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Collaborate with Program leadership on the development of knowledge/training programs that enhance team members' knowledge of architectural concepts and best practices.
• Provide regular input of architectural activities to weekly activity reports, project status reviews, contract status report, and other deliverables.
• Support responses to Peraton corporate and Department of State data calls.

Leaders who thrive on the CAEIO program:

• Deliver measurable results working in an often fast-paced and always professionally challenging environment.
• Demonstrate flexibility by managing multiple tasks and reprioritizing tasks – often to meet tight and periodically changing deadlines.
• Leverage strong written and verbal communications skills to prepare and present technical documentation to audiences with different levels of technical knowledge.
• Transition seamlessly between being self-directed with limited supervision to being a team player who takes direction from others.

Location: The Chief Architect must be local to the Washington, DC, and Virginia area. This position is hybrid. The Chief Architect must work at the customer site in Washington, DC (Foggy Bottom) on Tuesdays, at the Peraton office in Sterling, VA, on Wednesdays, and may telework on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Core Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM – 5:00PM ET

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and an active SECRET Government Security Clearance.
• 5+ years’ experience as Architect, Technical Lead, or Solution Developer. 
• 10+ years’ experience architecting and/or engineering mission critical/essential capabilities for the Federal Government. 
• Experience briefing and working directly with senior government and corporate leadership.
• Experience developing conceptual, logical, and physical architectures  in complex, large-scale environments supporting internal and external (public) users. 
• Experience developing and implementing IT architecture plans, enterprise information architecture standards and guidelines, software development methodologies and strategic plans.  
• Experience developing data sharing standards and architecting scalable service-oriented solutions. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Architectural experience with enterprise systems leveraging containerization, micro-services, and hybrid-cloud solutions. 
• Advanced Degree and/or industry-relevant certifications in Architecture, Engineering, or Information Technology.
• Experience with Department of State and/or similar Federal customers. 

Education and Experience: Minimum of 16 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 14 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 10 years with Ph.D.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.