Lead DevSecOps Solution Architect – Federal AI Platform

IBM; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks an experienced technologist to serve as the PDE Factory/DevSecOps anchor for U.S. federal pursuits and the Application Operations portfolio.

You will own the solution across architecture, staffing, basis of estimate, proposal content, code challenges and orals, while coordinating with BD and capture leads to shape opportunities ahead of release. You will lead IRAD efforts, guide the engineering roadmap, and mentor engineers, delivering secure, scalable platform solutions

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology services with 5+ as lead architect on U.S. federal pursuits

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead GTM technical delivery on federal civilian, DoD, and IC pursuits for the DevSecOps offering and for Application Operations proposals that need a platform solution.
• Act as technical anchor through the procurement lifecycle: RFI and sources-sought responses, RFP/RFQ technical and management volumes, compliance matrices, color-team reviews, code challenges, and orals.
• Partner with BD and capture leads to shape opportunities ahead of release, select teaming partners, and translate win themes into architecture discriminators.
• Lead IRAD on the agentic software factory: propose and scope investment projects, secure funding through the practice’s IRAD process, run them to demonstrable results on budget and schedule, and convert outcomes into new solutions, enhancements to the existing offering, reusable assets, and proposal-ready discriminators.
• Own the technical roadmap to refactor and extend the software factory with agentic AI across provisioning, policy generation, pipeline assembly, and Day-2 operations; lead the engineers delivering it.
• Represent the offering at client briefings, industry days, and partner engagements; produce reference architectures, solution briefs, and demo environments.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers across the practice; set and model engineering and communication standards.

Skills

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AI/LLM integration

Policy as Code

IaC (Terraform)

GitOps

Security compliance

Cloud-native platforms

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS EKS

Azure

Red Hat OpenShift

Terraform

SBOMs tooling

Job description

IBM Consulting seeks an experienced technologist to serve as the PDE Factory/DevSecOps anchor for U.S. federal pursuits and the Application Operations portfolio.

You will own the solution across architecture, staffing, basis of estimate, proposal content, code challenges and orals, while coordinating with BD and capture leads to shape opportunities ahead of release. You will lead IRAD efforts, guide the engineering roadmap, and mentor engineers, delivering secure, scalable platform solutions