Enterprise Cloud / VAEC Architect Lead

Federal Advisory Partners; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tria Federal is seeking an Enterprise Cloud / VAEC Architect Lead to serve as the technical authority across a large, enterprise-scale hosting program. You will define target-state architecture, standards, and modernization roadmaps while guiding cross-domain teams in on-prem, AWS, Azure, container, and hybrid environments.

The role requires hands-on leadership, architecture governance, and the ability to present to government executives, drive architecture reviews, and mentor solution

Responsibilities

• Serve as the program's senior technical authority and own the integrated technical solution across Application Hosting task areas.
• Develop and maintain the target-state architecture, technical roadmap, reference architectures and engineering standards.
• Integrate cross-domain architects into a unified operating and modernization model.
• Lead architecture reviews for AWS, Azure, on-premises, hybrid-cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and more.
• Evaluate workload requirements and recommend IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, containers, VMs, and on-prem patterns.
• Direct workload discovery, dependency mapping, and current- and future-state architecture development.
• Establish reusable patterns for IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, and automation.
• Ensure decisions address availability, resiliency, scalability, security and lifecycle supportability.
• Partner with security/compliance to embed Zero Trust, IAM, logging, encryption, and continuous ATO evidence.
• Define monitoring, telemetry, alerting, capacity management, and automated incident response needs.
• Incorporate FinOps principles into architecture and workload intake for cost-performance trade-offs.
• Lead technical trade-off decisions on cost, schedule, performance, security, and modernization value.
• Chair or support Architecture Review Board and document major technical decisions.
• Identify risks, gaps, dependencies, and debt; develop mitigation plans and track actions to closure.
• Support incident, disaster-recovery, migration, and performance scenarios with architecture guidance.
• Review deliverables, diagrams, and plans; mentor architects, engineers, and leads.
• Support staffing, basis-of-estimate development, partner integration, and resource planning.
• Lead the technical solution narrative and prepare scenario-based demonstrations for evaluators.
• Translate complex concepts into clear, outcome-focused recommendations for Government executives.

Skills

Senior technical leadership

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Virtualization

GitOps

Automation

Job description

Who we are:

Tria Federal delivers digital services and technology solutions that support the health and safety of veterans, service members and civilians. For two decades, federal agencies have relied on Tria companies to advance their critical missions and modernize their systems, so that they can uphold their commitment to the American people. Today, we are pushing the boundaries of possibility through partnerships and investments in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, developing solutions for the biggest challenges that government will face tomorrow.

We are proud to employ and support military veterans who bring mission-first mindset, technical expertise, and leadership qualities that strengthen our work. Veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses are strongly encouraged to apply.

Tria Federal is seeking aEnterprise Cloud / VAEC Architect Leadto serve as the overall technical authority for a large, enterprise-scale Application Hosting, Compute, and Storage program. The role is accountable for developing, integrating, and governing the end-to-end technical solution across server administration, enterprise storage, containerization and VA Platform One, enterprise cloud operations, and technology and platform services.

The successful candidate will establish the target-state architecture, reusable engineering patterns, technical standards, modernization roadmap, and architecture-governance processes needed to support secure, highly available, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient services across on-premises, AWS, Azure, container, and hybrid environments.

This individual will operate as a hands-on, player-coach architect who can lead executive technical discussions while remaining close to architecture design, engineering decisions, solution validation, and complex problem-solving. The role will also serve as the lead technical presenter for oral presentations, technical challenges, scenario-based evaluations, and major Government architecture reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the program's senior technical authority and own the integrated technical solution across all Application Hosting task areas.
• Develop and maintain the target-state architecture, technical roadmap, reference architectures, engineering standards, architecture decision records, and modernization priorities.
• Integrate the work of server, storage, cloud, container, security, data, network, database, and platform-service architects into a unified operating and modernization model.
• Lead architecture reviews for AWS, Azure, on-premises, hybrid-cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, virtualization, enterprise storage, database, API, and platform-service solutions.
• Evaluate workload requirements and recommend appropriate Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, container, virtual-machine, and on-premises deployment patterns.
• Direct workload discovery, dependency mapping, service mapping, system-boundary analysis, data-flow analysis, and current- and future-state architecture development.
• Establish reusable patterns for Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, API integration, observability, configuration management, deployment automation, and rollback.
• Ensure architecture decisions incorporate availability, resiliency, scalability, disaster recovery, performance, security, accessibility, operability, and lifecycle supportability.
• Partner with security and compliance leads to embed Zero Trust, identity and access management, secure configuration, logging, encryption, vulnerability management, and continuous ATO evidence into solution designs.
• Define architecture requirements for monitoring, telemetry, alerting, service health, capacity management, application performance management, and automated incident response.
• Integrate FinOps principles into architecture and workload intake, including rightsizing, unit economics, utilization targets, autoscaling, reserved-capacity strategies, and cost-performance trade-offs.
• Lead technical trade-off decisions involving cost, schedule, performance, security, operational risk, mission impact, and modernization value.
• Chair or support the program Architecture Review Board and ensure major technical decisions are documented, reviewed, approved, and communicated.
• Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, dependencies, and technical debt; develop mitigation plans and track corrective actions to closure.
• Support major incident, disaster-recovery, migration, and performance scenarios by providing architecture-level decision support and coordinating technical leads.
• Review technical deliverables, architecture diagrams, design packages, implementation plans, migration plans, test strategies, operational readiness artifacts, and recovery plans.
• Mentor solution architects, platform architects, engineers, and technical leads across Tria and its subcontractor team.
• Support staffing, basis-of-estimate development, technical evaluations, partner integration, and technical resource planning.
• Lead the technical solution narrative, oral presentation, evaluator question-and-answer preparation, and scenario-based technical demonstrations.
• Translate complex architecture and engineering concepts into clear, outcome-focused recommendations for Government executives, program leaders, and mission stakeholders.

Why Tria?

What defines the Tria brand is more than just our dedication to excellence in our craft; it's our incredible team of dedicated, talented, and passionate people that make Tria so exceptional. As people powering possible, we are all partners in our team's shared success.

As a company that cares about people, we seek to cultivate a culture in which all can thrive personallyandprofessionally. We offer a top-tier benefits package to invest in your physical, mental, and financial health and wellness so that you can be your best self - at workand in life. At Tria, we are growth-minded, entrepreneurial in spirit, and committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and opportunity for all. Whatever your background, your role, your department, or stage in your professional journey, here you will have opportunities to learn new skills, seize new challenges, and advance your career as we grow.

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