Chief Architect

Plateau GRP is seeking a highly experienced Chief Architect to serve as the primary architectural authority for our government project. The Chief Architect will play a pivotal role in defining maintaining and governing the enterprise and solution architecture supporting our clients mission. This role emphasizes architectural governance strategic alignment and decision enablementnot hands-on system implementation or operational execution.

The Chief Architect will work closely with Government leadership integration partners and diverse stakeholder groups to ensure that the projects architecture evolves in a controlled secure and mission-aligned manner. The successful candidate will bring deep experience in multi cloud federated and complex IT ecosystems and demonstrate a strong command of DoD validated architecture frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the Governments primary architectural authority for the program.
• Establish maintain and govern the enterprise and solution architecture baselines.
• Ensure architectural consistency traceability and alignment with Government-approved objectives standards and governance processes.
• Lead architectural decision-support activities including evaluation of tradeoffs risks and alternatives.
• Coordinate across Government stakeholders integration partners engineering teams and cross-functional groups to ensure cohesive architectural design.
• Ensure proposed technical solutions adhere to enterprise architecture standards security requirements and governance controls.
• Support Government decision-making by providing authoritative technical guidance architectural assessments and documentation.
• Oversee the controlled evolution of the platform architecture across heterogeneous hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Apply DoD and Federal architecture frameworks (e.g. DoDAF) to ensure governance traceability and architectural rigor.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in enterprise system or solution architecture roles supporting programs of comparable size scope and complexity.
• Proven experience establishing and governing enterprise architecture baselines in heterogeneous multi-cloud environments (e.g. multiple commercial cloud providers hybrid or on-premises).
• Demonstrated experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs enforcing standards and supporting Government decision-making processes.
• Experience operating within complex federated IT environments including coordination across multiple stakeholders security enclaves and integration partners.
• Experience applying DoD or Federal architecture frameworks (e.g. DoDAF or equivalent).

Desired Qualifications

• Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or related field.
• Experience leading or advising architecture governance bodies such as Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) or Technical Review Boards (TRBs).
• Experience supporting federated or multi-cloud architectures including the alignment of security data and platform standards across environments.
• Experience with data analytics artificial intelligence or platform modernization efforts in an architectural governance or leadership role.
• Background in collaborating with industry partners commercial vendors and open-source communities to inform architectural direction.
• Professional certifications such as:
• CISSP
• Cloud architect certifications (AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud)
• Enterprise architecture or cybersecurity credentials

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