Lead Platform Architect

Peraton Overview

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 worlds 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 cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Lead Platform Architect to provide technical leadership and architectural oversight across a complex ecosystem of interconnected platforms shared services and mission capabilities.

The Lead Platform Architect will define and maintain the overarching technical architecture that enables multiple platforms to operate as a cohesive enterprise capability. This role will establish architectural boundaries interfaces shared services communication patterns and technical standards while enabling individual platform teams to maintain ownership of detailed implementation within their respective areas.

Because the platform ecosystem will continue to evolve the Lead Platform Architect will design for flexibility interoperability and long-term sustainability ensuring platforms can be added replaced consolidated or retired without requiring broad redesign of the overall environment.

Responsibilities

Enterprise & Platform Architecture

• Define and maintain the overall technical architecture across cloud on-premises and security-domain environments .

• Establish architectural boundaries responsibilities interfaces and shared-service patterns between platforms.

• Develop architecture patterns that allow individual platforms to evolve independently while minimizing unnecessary cross-platform dependencies.

• Maintain reference architectures interface principles technical standards and architecture decision records.

• Ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability resilience portability supportability and technology insertion.

Cross-Platform Architecture

• Define common architectural approaches for APIs messaging identity authorization service discovery data exchange observability and software delivery .

• Identify capabilities that should be implemented as shared enterprise services rather than duplicated across individual platforms.

• Evaluate major design changes for cross-platform impacts and resolve architecture-level conflicts and dependencies.

• Establish architectural patterns that enable interoperability across diverse platforms and deployment environments.

• Balance standardization with the flexibility required for platform-specific implementation and mission needs.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Lead architecture and technical-design reviews spanning multiple engineering and platform teams.

• Partner with platform leads cybersecurity DevSecOps infrastructure G2PS ITSM and mission engineering teams to ensure architectural alignment.

• Guide technology selection modernization and replacement decisions while minimizing unnecessary vendor-specific dependencies.

• Evaluate proposed technical changes and assess their impacts across systems platforms interfaces and engineering organizations.

• Communicate architecture decisions risks dependencies tradeoffs and recommendations to program and customer leadership.

• Provide technical direction and architectural guidance while allowing platform-specific engineering teams to retain detailed implementation ownership.

Location: This position is fully onsite in Chantilly VA

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph .

• Approximately 1012 years of relevant experience in software systems platform cloud infrastructure or enterprise architecture.

• Minimum of 10 years with BS/BA; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Demonstrated experience providing architecture leadership across multiple interconnected systems platforms or technical environments .

• Strong understanding of APIs distributed systems identity networking security boundaries shared services and software-delivery architectures .

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized application environments .

• Experience designing hybrid architectures spanning cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

• Experience evaluating technical changes and their potential impacts across multiple systems and engineering teams.

• Strong architecture documentation technical analysis and communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with AWS GovCloud C2S SC2S Secret/Top Secret cloud or comparable classified cloud environments .

• Experience with large-scale multi-platform or system-of-systems architecture .

• Experience with GitLab and enterprise software-factory architectures .

• Experience with SysML UAF or Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) .

• Experience with service mesh event-driven architecture or API gateways .

• NRO or Intelligence Community architecture experience.

Target Salary Range

$146000 - $234000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position the individuals experience education knowledge skills and competencies as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position employees may be eligible for overtime shift differential and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical dental vision life health savings account short/long term disability EAP parental leave 401(k) paid time off (PTO) for vacation and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

By applying to this job you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidates own.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer including disability and protected veterans or other characteristics protected by law.

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