Peraton is hiring a Systems Architect who will support the continued evolution of the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) program. This is a remote role.
NBIS is the federal government's enterprise platform for personnel vetting, adjudication, continuous vetting, and trusted workforce modernization. The architect will provide technical leadership across cloud-native platforms, enterprise integrations, data services, AI-enabled capabilities, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps practices.
Responsibilities
Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Serve as a senior technical leader across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and product teams.
- Define and maintain solution architectures aligned with business objectives, mission outcomes, and enterprise architecture standards.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and technology evaluations.
- Develop architectural roadmaps supporting modernization, scalability, resiliency, and maintainability.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native patterns, micro-services, APIs, event-driven architectures, and platform engineering practices.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical implementation approaches.
- Owns architectural standards, patterns, governance, technology road-maps, and cross-cutting concerns.
- Thinks in terms of platforms, ecosystems, and long-term evolution.
Artificial Intelligence & Data Strategy
- Lead the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI capabilities into mission work-flows.
- Define architectures for secure use of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent search, summarization, and decision-support capabilities.
- Establish architectural guardrails for Responsible AI, explain-ability, model governance, data protection, and audit-ability.
- Partner with product owners and mission stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI can improve investigator, adjudicator, and analyst productivity.
- Guide implementation of AI services within approved government cloud environments and security constraints.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Design and oversee architectures deployed within AWS GovCloud and other approved government cloud environments.
- Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches using tools such as Terraform, Cloud-Formation, and Ansible.
- Define standards for containerized workloads, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS/Fargate, serverless technologies, and managed cloud services.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to improve reliability, observability, performance, and cost optimization.
Security & Compliance
- Ensure solutions align with Zero Trust principles, DoD cybersecurity requirements, and federal security frameworks.
- Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to support ATO activities, security assessments, and continuous monitoring.
- Architect secure identity and access management solutions, including ICAM, federation, and role-based access controls.
- Incorporate security, privacy, and data protection requirements into all solution designs.
DevSecOps & Delivery Excellence
- Partner with development teams to establish and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies.
- Promote engineering best practices including code quality, observability, resiliency, automation, and technical debt management.
- Support implementation of DevSecOps tooling and processes across multiple development teams.
- Collaborate with product management and Agile leadership to align technical strategy with program priorities.
