Senior Cyber Systems Architect & AI Governance Lead

LMI Consulting, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer/AI Governance Lead/Solutions Architect to drive VA modernization across enterprise architecture, AI governance, data, cloud, and security. The role blends independent solution-architecture judgment with governance leadership to ensure secure, supportable, compliant designs.

Hybrid work with ~25% onsite at Tysons, VA, or Washington, DC headquarters. Requires 10+ years in architecture and proven ability to translate policy and risk into practical controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, data science, public policy, risk management, or related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of progressive experience across enterprise/solution architecture, systems design, cybersecurity or technology risk, AI governance, or modernization work.
• Strong experience translating policy and risk requirements into practical technical controls and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead independent solution-architecture and AI/technology-governance review for VA modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate solution options for enterprise fit, reuse, integration, maintainability, supportability, scalability, security, data dependencies, and lifecycle cost.
• Establish risk-tiering and review criteria proportional to use, data sensitivity, and impact.
• Translate policy, privacy, cybersecurity, and enterprise standards into architecture requirements and controls.
• Review high-risk AI, data, clinical, identity, automation, and workflow use cases for necessary validation or escalation.
• Shape tradeoffs across applications, APIs/integration, data, cloud/platform, identity, and AI-enabled patterns.
• Define non-functional requirements for interoperability, data protection, auditing, observability, resilience, and oversight.
• Maintain architecture decision records, governance assessments, and traceability artifacts.
• Develop reference architectures, governance checklists, and patterns to accelerate VA initiatives.
• Facilitate reviews to produce clear decisions, owners, actions, and escalation paths.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity/privacy, data, clinical informatics, platform, engineering, testing, and leadership to resolve constraints.
• Assess technical debt, vendor lock-in, sustainment, and post-deployment monitoring before major decisions.
• Support readiness reviews as solutions move from design to pilot, deployment, or scale.
• Track recurring findings and propose shared services or standards to reduce one-off designs.

Skills

Solution Architecture

AI Governance

Cybersecurity

Cloud

Enterprise Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

TOGAF/AWS/Azure certs recommended

Job description

LMI is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer/AI Governance Lead/Solutions Architect to drive VA modernization across enterprise architecture, AI governance, data, cloud, and security. The role blends independent solution-architecture judgment with governance leadership to ensure secure, supportable, compliant designs.

Hybrid work with ~25% onsite at Tysons, VA, or Washington, DC headquarters. Requires 10+ years in architecture and proven ability to translate policy and risk into practical controls.