Solutions Architect

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe. They are hiring a Solutions Architect to support the design and delivery of mission-critical capabilities within the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) program, serving as a technical bridge between various stakeholders and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture standards.

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