Senior Director, Enterprise Capabilities

The Senior Director, Solutions Architecture is a senior leadership role responsible for two critical organizational functions: (1) leading and managing teams of technical architects in the design, governance, and lifecycle management of the Peraton Mission Services Portfolio, and (2) providing enterprise-wide oversight of the solution development function — defining a standardized methodology, training teams in its use, and guiding solution development efforts to produce compelling, competitive offerings that win business. This role serves as the bridge between strategic business objectives and technical execution, ensuring that solutions are architecturally sound, differentiated, and positioned to win.

This position will be located in Reston, Virginia, with occasional travel to support distributed teams, customer engagements, or industry events.

Key Responsibilities:

I. Mission Services Portfolio Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of technical, management, and transition subject matter experts, providing career development, performance management, and day-to-day direction.
• Define and govern the Peraton Mission Services Portfolio, ensuring alignment with business strategy, technology roadmaps, and investment priorities.
• Oversee the design and architecture of services across the portfolio, including infrastructure, mission, application, and managed services offerings. Coordinate contributions to the portfolio by sector subject matter experts (SMEs), and ensure that each service is clearly defined with associated sales support assets, cost models, solution guides
• Drive portfolio rationalization efforts to identify redundancies, consolidation opportunities, and modernization candidates.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and engineering leadership to translate business needs into viable, market-competitive service offerings and architectural blueprints.
• Present portfolio health, roadmaps, and architectural decisions to executive leadership and the technical community.

II. Enterprise Solution Development Oversight

• Define, document, and maintain a standardized enterprise solution development methodology — encompassing the end-to-end opportunity lifecycle — with a focus on producing solutions that are compelling, profitably deliverable, and positioned to win. Integrate this methodology into Peraton’s overall Business Acquisition Process, with maturity guidance checkpoints, and quality criteria that sharpen solution quality without impeding speed to proposal.
• Develop and deliver training programs (workshops, reference guides, templates, toolkits) that equip solution development teams across the enterprise to consistently produce high-quality, winning solutions.
• Provide ongoing guidance and quality assurance of solution development activities across pursuits, helping teams strengthen their technical narratives and competitive positioning.
• Coach and mentor solution architects, engineers, and capture/proposal teams on best practices in solution design, trade-off analysis, technical storytelling, and differentiation strategies.
• Continuously improve the solution development methodology based on win/loss analysis, lessons learned, industry trends, emerging technologies, and feedback from pursuit teams.
• Define and track metrics to measure the effectiveness and maturity of solution development practices across the enterprise (e.g., win rates, solution quality scores, proposal feedback, time-to-solution, reuse of reference architectures).
• Serve as a trusted advisor and escalation point for complex or high-stakes solution design decisions, providing authoritative technical guidance that strengthens competitive position.

III. Cross-Cutting Leadership

• Foster a culture of collaboration between sectors, functional organizations, and Peraton Labs, to ensure solutions and portfolio offerings are designed to win — and to be delivered successfully after award. Lead the Solution Development Community of Practice.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, competitor approaches, and best practices in enterprise architecture, service management, and solution delivery.
• Represent the solutions architecture function in enterprise governance forums, technology investment reviews, bid/no-bid decisions, and strategic planning sessions.
• Build and maintain relationships with key technology vendors, partners, and industry groups to inform architectural direction, strengthen teaming arrangements, and enhance solution strategies.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience: 18+ years of progressive experience in IT architecture, engineering, or solution design, with at least 5 years in a leadership role managing technical architects or engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing IT or engineering service offerings.
• Proven track record of leading solution development efforts that resulted in competitive wins, including experience with customer engagement, shaping technical volumes, developing reference architectures, and guiding teams through complex pursuits.
• Experience developing and delivering technical training programs, solution playbooks, reference architectures, and reusable design artifacts that elevate team performance.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, DoDAF) and service management frameworks (e.g., ITIL).
• Technical breadth across infrastructure, cloud platforms, application architecture, integration patterns, data architecture, and cybersecurity.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to executive, non-technical, and evaluator audiences in a compelling manner.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, including experience with performance management, talent development, and building high-performing teams.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain Top Secret clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience designing and managing an IT or engineering services portfolio at an enterprise scale.
• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect (Professional level), ITIL 4 Managing Professional, PMP, or CISSP.
• Experience in government, defense, or regulated industries with familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, RMF, NIST 800-53).
• Experience with Agile/SAFe delivery models and integrating architecture governance into Agile workflows.
• Direct experience in capture management, proposal development, or technical volume leadership for large-scale competitive bids.
• Active US Government Top Secret security clearance preferred. TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance eligibility desired.