Responsibilities
Peraton is hiring a Solutions Architect will support the design and delivery of mission-critical capabilities within the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) program. This is a remote role.
NBIS is the federal government's enterprise platform for personnel vetting, adjudication, continuous vetting, and trusted workforce modernization. The Solutions Architect serves as the technical bridge between mission stakeholders, product management, engineering teams, cybersecurity personnel, and enterprise architects. This role is responsible for translating business and mission requirements into practical, secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
Responsibilities:
Solution Design & Delivery
- Lead solution architecture efforts for major initiatives, epics, and features within NBIS.
- Translate mission, business, and user requirements into detailed technical designs.
- Produce architecture artifacts including solution diagrams, integration designs, data flows, API specifications, and technical decision records.
- Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to refine requirements and identify technical impacts.
- Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and Program Increment (PI) planning activities.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and program objectives.
- Focuses on delivering specific mission capabilities and business outcomes.
- Works closely with product owners, users, and development teams.
- Owns solution design for specific initiatives, epics, and features.
- Thinks in terms of implementing capabilities that solve business problems.
Artificial Intelligence & Automation
- Design and implement AI-enabled capabilities that improve workforce efficiency and mission outcomes.
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to identify high-value AI use cases.
- Define architectures supporting:
- Generative AI
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Intelligent search
- Workflow automation
- Document analysis
- Decision-support systems
- Ensure AI implementations meet Responsible AI, privacy, security, and governance requirements.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
Application & Integration Architecture
- Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern integration patterns.
- Define integration approaches between NBIS and external government systems.
- Develop secure and scalable API strategies.
- Support modernization efforts that reduce technical debt and improve maintainability.
- Guide implementation of data exchange, messaging, and workflow orchestration solution