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

Peraton; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Director, Digital Transformation, AI, and Data Architect to lead digital modernization across AI, data, and enterprise capabilities. You will shape differentiated service offerings, architect scalable frameworks, and guide capture teams through competitive federal pursuits, aligning AI/Data strategies with mission objectives.

You will collaborate with sector CTOs, growth leaders, and SMEs to drive opportunity shaping, proposal development, and winning contracts that advance

Qualifications

• 16+ years of industry experience in AI/ML and data platforms.
• Expertise in AI/ML platform architecture, model development, training and deployment pipelines.
• Proven experience designing modern data platforms (data lakes, data mesh, data fabric) with governance.
• MLOps and AI lifecycle management across development to monitoring.
• Knowledge of DMBoK, DCAM, FAIR, COBIT frameworks.
• Experience with legacy modernization, API-first and microservices patterns.
• Applying human-centered design to federal digital transformation with measurable outcomes.
• US government contractor experience and understanding of acquisition processes.
• Proven ability to translate AI, data concepts into compelling narratives for capture/leadership.
• Bias for action with a history of delivering technically-driven wins.
• US citizenship and ability to obtain Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Digital Transformation, AI, and Data Architecture portfolio from strategy to execution.
• Collaborate with capture teams, growth leaders, and SMEs to shape solutions for federal pursuits.
• Develop discriminators, narratives, and competitive materials for capture and proposals.
• Design scalable service offerings and technical frameworks for federal AI/Data workloads.
• Evolve the portfolio by analyzing capability gaps, tech readiness, and market trends.
• Author white papers and solution artifacts to support customer engagement.
• Translate market opportunities into differentiated offerings with sales assets.
• Present AI/Data roadmaps and modernization strategies to customers and leadership.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

Data platform design

MLOps

DMBoK/DCAM/FAIR/COBIT

Legacy modernization

Human-centered design

Federal contractor experience

Capture/proposal support

Solution storytelling

Action-oriented execution

US citizenship

Security clearances readiness

Tools

TS/SCI with Polygraph eligibility

Job description

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 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.