Lead Cloud Architect

Role overview Lead cloud and platform architecture for a large, greenfield financial management modernization using SAP S/4HANA in a defense environment. You will guide the engineering team and shape a secure, resilient hosting platform that can meet federal authorization requirements and support delivery across multiple program areas. This role is contingent on contract award.

Responsibilities - Design the accredited cloud environment, network boundaries, connectivity, and integration with the customer’s enterprise cloud. - Lead and develop the platform engineering team, overseeing work allocation, quality, staffing, and capability growth. - Plan development, test, staging, training, and production environments, including capacity, sizing, and refresh strategies. - Coordinate with security and risk teams on authorization artifacts, control assessments, continuous monitoring, and maintaining the authority to operate. - Set standards for hardening, identity and access, infrastructure automation, configuration management, and container security. - Define backup, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and audit logging approaches, including operation in degraded network conditions.

Requirements - A related bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, with substantial cloud or enterprise infrastructure architecture experience and people leadership. The source specifies 8–12 years of relevant experience and 3–5 years leading people with a degree, or 10–14 years and 5–8 years leading people without one. - At least eight years in cloud or enterprise infrastructure architecture, including five or more years focused on a major public cloud platform. - Experience delivering workloads in a government cloud or equivalent accredited environment, and working knowledge of FedRAMP, DoD cloud security requirements, and Impact Levels 4 and 5. - Experience supporting risk management framework authorization, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and CI/CD in controlled environments. - Experience designing high availability, backup, and disaster recovery for mission-critical systems, and leading engineering teams. - Ability to meet the stated DoD workforce certification requirements.

Nice to have - Experience with federal ERP modernization, defense business systems, or SAP environments. - CISSP or an equivalent advanced security certification. - Advanced certifications are valued.

Benefits and work setup - The source lists medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k), bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.