Cloud Architect SME (SW)

Mtsi Va; Bath Township (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MTSI is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect SME to lead the customer’s Software Branch in shaping secure, scalable cloud architectures across the full system lifecycle. You will drive strategy, standards, and modernization efforts while collaborating with engineering and program leadership to align cloud solutions with mission objectives.

Deep expertise in cloud architecture, security controls, and reference models will be applied to guide modernization roadmaps and migration plans for

Qualifications

• Requires 20+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in a DoD SAP/SCI environment preferred.
• Active DoD TS clearance with SCI eligibility required.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise cloud architecture strategy, ensuring secure, scalable solutions.
• Define requirements, standards, and reference architectures for systems.
• Advise owners and teams on risks, cost, and performance trade-offs.
• Assess new cloud services and modernization efforts for mission needs.
• Review and oversee architecture diagrams and deployment plans.
• Lead architectural reviews and design assessments across projects.
• Deliver modernization roadmaps and technical recommendations to leadership.
• Apply IaC, zero-trust, and modern design patterns across lifecycles.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DoD cloud security

Strategic leadership

Zero-trust

Cloud governance

Education

Master's degree in STEM

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

MTSI is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect SME to provide high‑level technical leadership within our customer’s Software Branch. In this senior role, you will shape the vision, design, and implementation of advanced cloud architectures that enable secure, scalable, and mission‑focused solutions across the full system lifecycle—from initial concept and architecture through development, deployment, operations, and transition to sustainment. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted cloud architecture authority, representing the customer and driving the strategic integration of cloud services into complex software ecosystems and mission‑critical systems. Responsibilities include defining and maturing enterprise cloud architecture, developing cloud migration and modernization strategies, establishing technical standards, ensuring compliance with applicable policies and directives, and independently supporting the program office across all cloud engineering, architectural planning, and operational activities. This position requires deep technical expertise, a strong understanding of advanced cloud architecture principles, and the ability to translate complex mission and technical requirements into secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions. If you are a motivated professional with a passion for shaping and delivering enterprise‑level cloud architectures.

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise cloud architecture strategy and development, ensuring secure, scalable, and mission‑aligned cloud solutions across the full system lifecycle.
• Define, refine, and govern cloud architectural requirements, standards, patterns, and reference architectures to guide system design, development, deployment, and operations.
• Advise system owners, engineering teams, and leadership on cloud architecture risks, technical impacts, cost and performance trade‑offs, dependencies, and compliance with applicable DoD, security, and cloud‑framework standards.
• Assess new cloud services, architectural changes, and infrastructure modernization efforts; recommend and validate optimal cloud architecture solutions.
• Review, approve, and oversee architectural documentation including cloud architecture diagrams, enterprise reference models, service patterns, modernization roadmaps, and deployment architectures.
• Lead and validate architectural reviews, design assessments, and cloud solution evaluations to ensure environments, interfaces, and services meet mission, security, and performance requirements.
• Prepare and deliver enterprise architecture assessments, modernization strategies, migration roadmaps, and technical recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Apply cloud architecture best practices, including automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, zero‑trust principles, and modern design patterns across all phases of system development and deployment.
• Evaluate cloud, network, and system architectures to identify scalability, resiliency, interoperability, and security considerations; recommend strategic mitigation and optimization approaches.
• Provide expert architectural guidance to teams developing new mission applications or modernizing legacy systems, ensuring alignment with long‑term cloud strategies and enterprise cloud environments.
• Identify and resolve complex system‑of‑systems architectural challenges as new cloud services and technologies are integrated into diverse mission, software, and data environments.
• Stay current on emerging cloud technologies, architectural trends, automation frameworks, security models, and industry best practices to continuously evolve enterprise cloud strategy and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Possess minimum of 20 years of relevant work experience
• Experience working in a DoW program or product acquisition office or environment
• Have no less than three (3) years’ experience in a Special Access Program (SAP) and/or Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) environment within the last five (5) years

Education

• A Master of Arts/Master of Science/Master of Engineering MA/MS/ME degree (Years of experience may be considered in lieu of a master’s degree)

Clearance Requirements

• Must possess an active DoD Top Secret (TS) security clearance with ability to obtain SCI
• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position, due to contract requirements.