Solutions Architect

Peraton • ,

7d • $104,000 - $166,000 • Remote

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Solutions Architect to support the design and delivery of mission-critical capabilities within 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 Solutions Architect serves as the technical bridge between mission stakeholders, product management, engineering teams, cybersecurity personnel, and enterprise architects. This role is responsible for translating business and mission requirements into practical, secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.

Requirements

• 8 years of experience with BS/BA degree, 6 years with a MS/MA, or 4 years with a PhD.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and AWS services.
• Experience designing REST, GraphQL, and event-driven integrations.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, data architecture, and integration patterns.
• Experience working within Agile or SAFe delivery environments.
• Experience producing architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and solution documentation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting DCSA, DoD, Intelligence Community, or other federal agencies.
• Experience with personnel vetting, case management, investigative systems, or identity-related platforms.
• Experience with AI/ML, Generative AI, RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI governance frameworks.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL, and serverless architectures.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with Zero Trust and ICAM architectures.
• AWS Solutions Architect, Security, Developer, or related certifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture efforts for major initiatives, epics, and features within NBIS.
• Translate mission, business, and user requirements into detailed technical designs.
• Produce architecture artifacts including solution diagrams, integration designs, data flows, API specifications, and technical decision records.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to refine requirements and identify technical impacts.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and Program Increment (PI) planning activities.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and program objectives.
• Focuses on delivering specific mission capabilities and business outcomes.
• Works closely with product owners, users, and development teams.
• Owns solution design for specific initiatives, epics, and features.
• Thinks in terms of implementing capabilities that solve business problems.
• Design and implement AI-enabled capabilities that improve workforce efficiency and mission outcomes.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to identify high-value AI use cases.
• Define architectures supporting: Generative AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Intelligent search, Workflow automation, Document analysis, Decision-support systems.
• Ensure AI implementations meet Responsible AI, privacy, security, and governance requirements.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
• Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern integration patterns.
• Define integration approaches between NBIS and external government systems.
• Develop secure and scalable API strategies.
• Support modernization efforts that reduce technical debt and improve maintainability.
• Guide implementation of data exchange, messaging, and workflow orchestration solutions.
• Design solutions deployed within AWS GovCloud and approved federal cloud environments.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to ensure automated deployment, testing, and monitoring capabilities are incorporated into solution designs.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation best practices.
• Support performance optimization, resiliency, observability, and cost management efforts.
• Incorporate security and privacy requirements into solution designs from inception.
• Ensure solutions comply with Zero Trust principles, federal cybersecurity requirements, and program security controls.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams during architecture reviews and security assessments.
• Support ATO activities through technical documentation and solution reviews.

Benefits

• Overtime
• Shift differential
• Discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior