Director, Enterprise Capabilities Architect - Digital Transformation, AI, and Database

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

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a Director, Digital Transformation, AI, and Data 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 digital modernization, artificial intelligence, and data-driven mission outcomes. 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.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the Peraton Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions Portfolio for Digital Modernization, Artificial Intelligence, and Data 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 Digital Transformation and AI/Data 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 digital modernization, AI/ML architecture, and data platform design.


• Design and develop scalable, reusable digital transformation and AI/Data 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 federal digital modernization and AI adoption 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, AI/Data architecture roadmaps, and digital modernization 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 to stay ahead of evolving federal AI policy, emerging data platform capabilities, and competitive dynamics in Peraton's target markets.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 16+ years of industry experience


• Deep expertise in AI/ML platform architecture including model development, training, and deployment pipelines, with demonstrated experience integrating AI and generative AI capabilities into enterprise or mission applications


• Proven experience designing and implementing modern data platform architectures including data lakes, data mesh, and data fabric, with strong command of data governance, data quality, and data management frameworks in a federal environment


• Demonstrated experience with MLOps practices and AI lifecycle management, from development and testing through production deployment and continuous monitoring


• Demonstrated experience with Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK), Data Management Capability Assessment Models (DCAM), Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Data Principles, and/or Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT)


• Working knowledge of legacy system modernization strategies, application migration approaches, and API-first and microservices-based architecture patterns that accelerate digital transformation


• Demonstrated experience applying human-centered design principles and iterative user research methods to federal digital transformation programs, with measurable outcomes in user adoption and mission effectiveness


• 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 AI, data, and digital transformation 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 security clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph eligibility


• Direct experience in capture management, proposal development, or technical volume leadership on large-scale, competitive federal digital transformation or AI/Data bids


• Familiarity with Responsible AI and algorithmic accountability frameworks aligned to OMB AI policy and Executive Order 14110, including experience applying AI ethics and bias mitigation practices in federal program contexts


• Experience with federated learning and privacy-preserving AI techniques for sensitive or classified data environments where centralized model training is not feasible


• Working knowledge of AI-ready data infrastructure including vector database architecture and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks supporting large language model deployment in federal environments


• Experience with synthetic data generation techniques for AI model training in data-scarce or operationally sensitive federal environments


• Familiarity with edge AI and on-device inference architectures supporting disconnected, intermittent, or contested operational environments


• Experience with digital twin modeling applied to mission systems, infrastructure, or operational environments


• Familiarity with multimodal AI architectures integrating text, imagery, signals, and sensor data for mission applications


• Experience presenting AI/Data strategies and digital transformation roadmaps directly to senior government customers or evaluators


• Prior experience developing competitive positioning materials, technical discriminators, or solution playbooks that supported pursuit efforts in the federal AI or digital transformation market


• Relevant certifications such as AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, or relevant data architecture and governance certifications (e.g, CDMP)

Peraton Overview

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.

Target Salary Range

$190,000 - $304,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.