Senior Federal Systems Architect – API & ETL

Peraton; Newark (NJ); Remote; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to support system integration design, documentation, and testing for a federal data migration program. This remote role offers a 12‑month period with potential for follow‑on work, and will involve leading technical design activities and serving as a documentation lead across the project.

The role requires extensive experience in federal IT programs, API integration design, and cloud/Hybrid AWS governance, with strong leadership in architecture

Qualifications

• Experience designing API integration architectures for federal systems.
• Experience with interoperability testing design and technical documentation.
• Familiarity with Git for technical review and code deployment oversight.

Responsibilities

• Support system architecture design, integration planning, and decision documentation.
• Lead source-to-target mapping specs for ETL pipeline development.
• Design integration architecture for federal species data including API specs and data access patterns.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation such as integration and data flow diagrams.
• Lead interoperability testing architecture and define API connectivity coverage.
• Support production migration runbooks with cutover steps and rollback procedures.
• Review code and pipelines to enforce peer review requirements.

Skills

Systems architecture

API design

Interoperability testing

Git version control

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Associates degree

High school diploma

Tools

Git

AWS

REST API

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to support system integration design, documentation, and testing for a federal data migration program. This remote role offers a 12‑month period with potential for follow‑on work, and will involve leading technical design activities and serving as a documentation lead across the project.

The role requires extensive experience in federal IT programs, API integration design, and cloud/Hybrid AWS governance, with strong leadership in architecture