Senior Cloud Architect

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSenior Cloud ArchitectLocation: Pentagon, Arlington, VA Work Arrangement: Full-Time, On-site Travel: Occasional domestic travel may be required Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility Certification: DoD 8570/8140 Level II certification requiredPosition OverviewOn behalf of our client, we are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to provide senior-level cloud architecture, data platform, cybersecurity engineering, and implementation support for Department of the Navy initiatives.The selected candidate will support efforts to establish and sustain secure, cloud-enabled data and analytics capabilities for evaluating industrial-base performance, production capacity, supply-chain risk, investment activity, and program outcomes.This role requires a senior technical subject matter expert with extensive experience designing and supporting secure enterprise cloud environments, data platforms, and analytical workloads. The individual will develop cloud architecture designs, landing-zone concepts, implementation roadmaps, technical standards, and architecture documentation to support government review and implementation.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelop cloud architecture designs, technical roadmaps, reference architectures, implementation plans, and technical recommendations.Design cloud landing-zone concepts and architecture patterns for data, analytics, reporting, and software-engineering workloads.Develop architecture documentation covering identity and access management, role-based access control, privileged access, network segmentation, storage, compute, monitoring, logging, backup, recovery, scalability, and cost management.Assess hosting, security, authorization, and compliance requirements for proposed cloud and analytical workloads.Evaluate tradeoffs involving managed cloud services, cost, performance, scalability, resilience, security, and operational supportability.Develop cloud architecture standards, technical patterns, governance recommendations, configuration baselines, and reusable reference materials.Support authorized cloud environment provisioning, configuration, validation, documentation, and transition activities.Develop infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, automation, and repeatable deployment approaches.Support data-platform architecture covering data ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, reporting, and data governance.Assess technical dependencies, data flows, integration requirements, security considerations, operational risks, and implementation constraints.Prepare executive briefings, technical memoranda, architecture diagrams, implementation roadmaps, decision packages, and status reports.Coordinate technical activities with government directorates, acquisition organizations, enterprise service providers, and other approved stakeholders.Support time-sensitive taskers, technical reviews, executive engagements, and working groups related to cloud, data, analytics, and industrial-base performance initiatives.Required QualificationsBachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, cybersecurity engineering, data management, analytics, and performance-assessment capabilities.Experience supporting Flank Speed, Department of the Navy enterprise-cloud services, Azure Government, or other DoD cloud environments.Experience with DoD cloud security requirements, cloud authorization processes, security-control implementation, system authorization package development, or related risk-management activities.Experience with enterprise data engineering, data architecture, analytics platforms, business intelligence, data visualization, data governance, or AI-enabled analytics.Experience with data-platform integration, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native application design, DevSecOps, or CI/CD practices.Experience supporting the Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, federal acquisition, national security, defense industrial base, or comparable complex public-sector organizations.Experience working with industrial-base, supply-chain, manufacturing, logistics, investment, readiness, or performance-assessment data environments.Current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.Current DoD 8570/8140 Level II certification.Additional Requirements:Must be able to work on-site at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA.May be required to support activities outside normal business hours to meet time-sensitive government and mission requirements.