Director, Enterprise Capabilities Architect - Cloud and Enterprise IT

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.

Peraton is looking for a Director, Cloud and Enterprise IT Architect to join the Corporate Growth, Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions team as one of the technical leads behind our most competitive pursuits. You will provide thought leadership and design differentiated service offerings, architectures, and technical strategies for cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and IT modernization. These provide the people and process elements to the Peraton Labs technology developments. You will work directly alongside capture teams, growth leaders, sector CTOs, and technical SMEs from early strategic opportunity shaping through proposal submission to build solutions that win contracts and frameworks that make winning repeatable. If you are energized by high-stakes technical challenges and want to see your work translate directly into contract wins, this role was built for you.

This position is a hybrid role and requires the candidate to be local to one of the following location: NoVA, Basking Ridge, NJ or Melbourne, FL.

What you'll do:

Lead the Peraton Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions Portfolio for cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and IT modernization from strategy through execution, ensuring every offering is aligned to business priorities, technically sound, and built to compete across all Peraton customer's market spaces.
• Work directly with capture teams, sector growth leaders, and SMEs to shape Cloud and Enterprise IT solutions from early opportunity identification through proposal submission.
• Develop technical discriminators, solution narratives, and competitive positioning materials that support capture and proposal efforts across the enterprise, with deep credibility in cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and IT modernization.
• Design and develop scalable, reusable cloud and enterprise IT service offerings, architectures, and technical frameworks that give Peraton's sector teams a competitive edge on federal pursuits.
• Continuously evolve the portfolio by analyzing capability gaps, technology readiness, and market trends across cloud adoption, infrastructure modernization, and enterprise IT to identify portfolio enhancements and competitive differentiation opportunities that strengthen Peraton's position in core markets.
• Provide thought leadership and author white papers and other solution artifacts to support customer engagement efforts highlighting newly developed frameworks and Peraton Labs applicable technologies.
• Partner with sector growth teams, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to translate market opportunities into viable, differentiated service offerings.
• Drive the design and architecture of services across the portfolio. Ensure each service is fully defined with supporting sales assets, cost models, and solution guides that equip sector teams to sell and deliver.
• Present technical strategies, cloud architecture roadmaps, and solution recommendations to customers, capture teams, and executive leadership with the clarity and confidence to drive decisions.
• Engage with key customers, industry partners, and technology vendors including hyperscale cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP to stay ahead of mission requirements, emerging capabilities, and competitive dynamics in Peraton's target markets.

Required Qualifications:

• 16+ years of industry experience
• Deep expertise in cloud platform architecture across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and GCP, including hybrid and multi-cloud environment design at enterprise scale.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with cybersecurity SMEs for designing and implementing Zero Trust Architectures aligned to CISA and DoD Zero Trust frameworks in a federal environment.
• Proven experience with cloud-native architecture including containers, Kubernetes, and microservices, and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Working knowledge of FedRAMP authorization processes, cloud compliance frameworks, and IT service management principles aligned to ITIL.
• Direct experience supporting federal government customers in a contractor environment, with a working understanding of mission requirements, acquisition processes, and the competitive federal market.
• Proven experience contributing to competitive federal pursuits, including technical solution development, architecture design, or competitive positioning in support of capture or proposal efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex cloud and enterprise IT concepts into compelling solution narratives for capture teams, executive leadership, and government evaluators.
• A demonstrated bias for action and a track record of delivering technical work that contributed directly to competitive wins.
• US. citizenship and ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

Desired Qualifications:

• Direct experience in capture management, proposal development, or technical volume leadership on large-scale, competitive federal cloud or enterprise IT bids.
• Experience with sovereign and classified cloud environments including AWS Top Secret Region or Azure Government Secret and Top Secret.
• Familiarity with AI-driven IT operations (AIOps) and automated compliance frameworks supporting continuous Authority to Operate (cATO) in federal environments.
• Experience with edge computing and tactical cloud architectures supporting distributed or mission-critical environments.
• Working knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies at enterprise scale.
• Experience presenting cloud architecture strategies and technical solutions directly to senior government customers or evaluators.
• Prior experience developing competitive positioning materials, technical discriminators, or solution playbooks that supported pursuit efforts in the cloud or enterprise IT market.
• Familiarity with post-quantum cryptography standards and their implications for cloud infrastructure design, key management, and long-term data protection in federal environments.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, or ITIL 4 Managing Professional.

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 https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.