Lead Cyber Solutions Architect - Cloud & Data Integration

PreSales Collective; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Dental plan

401(k)

Job summary

GDIT seeks a Solutions Architect/Lead to drive end-to-end technical architecture for national cyber defense programs. You will own data flow, integration patterns, and operator-facing interfaces while guiding three delivery teams—data engineering, cloud platform/authorization, and application delivery—ensuring coherence with RMF requirements and government priorities.

The role requires top-tier cloud experience, strong leadership, and ability to present complex decisions to senior government

Qualifications

• Experience as a lead/principal architect on enterprise systems integrating multiple data sources.
• Demonstrated cloud architecture experience in regulated environments.
• Experience with data integration and normalization to open standards.
• Working knowledge of RMF and architecture decisions shaping an authorization boundary.
• Experience directing engineering teams across multiple disciplines.
• Ability to present technical decisions to senior government stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture, including data flow, integration patterns, and processing layer boundaries.
• Define and maintain integration designs across data sources, analytics, and operator applications.
• Set interface and schema standards for the operator application.
• Make and document architecture decisions shaping the authorization boundary, hosting model, and sustainment posture.
• Establish technical standards, design reviews, and governance.
• Direct the unified data model for infrastructure, operational, and threat information.
• Set normalization and correlation approaches aligned to open standards.
• Oversee ingestion and enrichment pipelines, including onboarding, data quality, and lineage.
• Direct analytic service design and the controls governing their output.
• Own cloud architecture, including hosting, network, identity, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Define approaches for handling data of varying sensitivity.
• Drive architecture decisions supporting ATO, including boundary definition, inheritance, and monitoring.
• Work with security and authorization teams to ensure a defensible architecture.
• Establish deployment, environment, and release architecture.
• Direct application technical design and its interface to the underlying data/event layer.
• Ensure operator experience aligns to mission needs rather than data structures.
• Own integration contracts and ensure traceability to requirements.
• Lead technical delivery teams, set priorities, resolve dependencies, and maintain design coherence.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship across data, platform, and application engineering.
• Align technical sequencing with operational milestones.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, including integration and authorization risks.
• Serve as the primary technical interface to government leadership, presenting architecture and trade-offs.
• Support technical exchanges, demos, and design reviews.
• Coordinate integration with partners, vendors, and third-party providers.

Skills

Cloud Architectures

Data Integration

Technical Architecture

Technical Designs

Technical Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

GDIT seeks a Solutions Architect/Lead to drive end-to-end technical architecture for national cyber defense programs. You will own data flow, integration patterns, and operator-facing interfaces while guiding three delivery teams—data engineering, cloud platform/authorization, and application delivery—ensuring coherence with RMF requirements and government priorities.

The role requires top-tier cloud experience, strong leadership, and ability to present complex decisions to senior government