Remote Senior Federal Systems Architect

Peraton; Herndon (VA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to support system integration design, technical documentation, and interoperability testing architecture on a federal data migration program. This fully remote, 12-month assignment offers potential follow-on work and possible placement on other Peraton programs.

Responsibilities include leading API integration design, ETL mapping, and architecture documentation, with emphasis on federal governance, REST API standards, and AWS cloud patterns.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Extensive experience in systems architecture or technical design on federal IT programs.
• Experience designing API integration architectures and data flow documentation for federal systems.
• Strong knowledge of federal IT governance frameworks and hybrid AWS cloud platform standards.
• Experience with interoperability testing design and technical documentation.
• Experience developing production migration runbooks including cutover steps, validation checks, and rollback procedures.
• Familiarity with Git for technical review and code deployments.
• Experience with REST API design standards and API gateway patterns for federal system integration.
• Proficiency in producing architecture artifacts including integration diagrams and API specifications.

Responsibilities

• Support the Technical Architect SME in system architecture design, integration planning, and technical decision documentation
• Lead the design and documentation of source-to-target mapping specifications for ETL pipeline development
• Design the application integration architecture for federal species data, including API endpoint specifications, data access patterns, and decision logic integration points
• Develop and maintain technical architecture documentation including integration diagrams, data flow diagrams, and API specifications
• Lead interoperability testing architecture design, defining test coverage for API connectivity, authentication, data exchange protocols, metadata alignment, and end-to-end data flow
• Support the production migration runbook, documenting technical cutover steps, validation checks, deployment sequences, and rollback procedures
• Conduct technical review of all code and pipeline deployments, enforcing peer review requirements
• Support compliance validation from a technical perspective, validating decision logic correctness and consultation routing accuracy

Skills

Systems architecture

API integration

Data flow docs

REST API design

Govt IT governance

Interoperability testing

AWS cloud

Code review

Architecture diagrams

Deployment oversight

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Associates degree

High school diploma

Tools

Git

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to support system integration design, technical documentation, and interoperability testing architecture on a federal data migration program. This fully remote, 12-month assignment offers potential follow-on work and possible placement on other Peraton programs.

Responsibilities include leading API integration design, ETL mapping, and architecture documentation, with emphasis on federal governance, REST API standards, and AWS cloud patterns.