Remote Principal Architect: Federal Cloud, Data & AI

Unissant; Washington (District of Columbia); A distancia; USD 160.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead and govern a large federal IT services program. The role drives the reference architecture, security, cloud, data platforms, and enterprise integration patterns across multiple teams.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on leadership with strategic vision, extensive experience in cloud security, IAM, and API design, and the ability to guide cross-functional stakeholders toward mission-aligned outcomes.

Formación

• Experience as Principal Architect/Enterprise Architect on a large federal IT services program.
• Deep cloud-native and security expertise with design of secure, scalable platforms.
• Ability to lead governance forums, setting standards across multiple teams.

Responsabilidades

• Own and evolve the program's reference architecture across cloud, security, data, analytics, and integrations.
• Establish and govern cross-team technical standards and engineering practices.
• Lead architecture governance processes and design reviews for major decisions.
• Define interoperability patterns for data exchange and APIs.
• Document major trade-off analyses for architecture, platform, and security decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure performance, security, privacy, and mission alignment.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts and roadmaps for governance and transition.
• Communicate risks, decisions, and options clearly to leadership and delivery teams.

Conocimientos

Cloud-native architecture

Security architecture

IAM

APIs

Data platforms

DevSecOps

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Federal programs

Educación

Bachelor's Degree

MBA or Master's preferred

Herramientas

AWS

Azure

GCP

TOGAF

Descripción del empleo

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead and govern a large federal IT services program. The role drives the reference architecture, security, cloud, data platforms, and enterprise integration patterns across multiple teams.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on leadership with strategic vision, extensive experience in cloud security, IAM, and API design, and the ability to guide cross-functional stakeholders toward mission-aligned outcomes.