Director, AI & Data Transformation Architect

Peraton; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 304,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Director, Digital Transformation, AI, and Data Architect to join the Corporate Growth, Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions team as a technical lead for digital modernization, AI, and data-driven outcomes. You will shape offerings, architectures, and strategies to win competitive federal contracts.

You will work with capture teams, sector CTOs, and SMEs to translate market opportunities into differentiated service offerings and design scalable architectures that give

Qualifications

• 16+ years of industry experience.
• Expert in AI/ML platform architecture and deployment pipelines.
• Experience designing modern data platforms including data lakes, data mesh, and data fabric.
• Strong MLOps practices and AI lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with DMBoK, DCAM, FAIR, and COBIT.
• Knowledge of legacy modernization and API-first/microservices patterns.
• Experience applying human-centered design in federal programs.
• Proven ability to contribute to competitive federal pursuits.
• US citizenship and ability to obtain Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio for Digital Modernization, AI, and Data from strategy to execution.
• Shape solutions with capture teams and sector leaders through proposals.
• Develop discriminators and narratives for competitive capture.
• Design scalable offerings and architectures to edge federal pursuits.
• Evolve portfolio using capability gaps and market trends.
• Author white papers and solution artifacts.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate market opportunities into offerings.
• Define services with sales assets and cost models.
• Present AI/Data strategies and roadmaps to customers and executives.
• Engage customers and vendors to stay ahead of AI policy and market dynamics.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

MLOps practices

Data platform design

Federal contracting experience

Capture/proposal support

Team leadership

Security clearance readiness

Architecture storytelling

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Director, Digital Transformation, AI, and Data Architect to join the Corporate Growth, Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions team as a technical lead for digital modernization, AI, and data-driven outcomes. You will shape offerings, architectures, and strategies to win competitive federal contracts.

You will work with capture teams, sector CTOs, and SMEs to translate market opportunities into differentiated service offerings and design scalable architectures that give