Technical Specialist/Architect – SME

Peraton's Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have identified a critical gap in the federal government's ability to conduct comprehensive Endangered Species Act (ESA) research. While FWS operates an authoritative web-based platform for managing data for terrestrial and freshwater species, it does not currently include NMFS marine and anadromous species data forcing agencies to rely on separate, manual processes. This program closes that gap by integrating marine and anadromous species data into the existing FWS platform, creating a single, unified experience for all ESA-listed species.

Peraton is seeking a Senior Technical Architect SME to lead the end-to-end system integration architecture for a high-priority federal data migration program. You will serve as the technical authority for the project, ensuring all architectural decisions comply with federal IT governance requirements and driving technical workstream management across a 12-month delivery effort. This is a fully remote position.

Work Location: Remote

Day To Day Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the overall system architecture design for the federal data integration, ensuring compliance with IT governance, platform standards, and interoperability conformance requirements
• Establish and baseline the interoperability conformance framework at project kickoff, defining API standards, protocols, and data exchange requirements for all integration points
• Design the end-to-end integration architecture spanning cloud data platforms, web applications, authoritative data systems, and decision logic engines
• Lead workstream management across all project phases, ensuring technical dependencies are identified, sequenced, and resolved
• Conduct compliance validation from a technical architecture perspective, ensuring the integrated system meets all regulatory requirements
• Evaluate all proposed technical changes against platform constraints and escalate boundary violations
• Lead the design of authorized API integration pathways between source systems and the cloud data platform
• Provide technical oversight of the production migration runbook and cutover execution
• Lead the development of the Final Operational Playbooks, providing technical architecture documentation covering system maintenance procedures, incident response protocols, and integration sustainability guidance
• Serve as the technical escalation point for the team, resolving complex integration, compliance, and architecture issues

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 16 years professional experience or a Masters degree and 14 years professional experience or an Associates degree and 18 years professional experience; or a high school diploma/equivalent and 20 years’ professional experience. 
• U.S. Citizenship required; must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Extensive experience in systems architecture or technical leadership on federal IT programs
• Demonstrated experience designing end-to-end integration architectures for federal systems
• Deep knowledge of federal IT governance frameworks including FITARA, FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST standards
• Experience with AWS cloud platforms and API integration design in a hybrid AWS cloud hosting environment
• Experience leading technical teams across multi-workstream federal programs
• Strong technical documentation skills; experience producing architecture artifacts
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture or a related technical field is strongly preferred
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification
• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or cloud data lakehouse architecture on AWS
• Familiarity with DOI, FWS, NOAA Fisheries, or other natural resource agency IT environments
• Experience with ESA Section 7 compliance or environmental regulatory systems
• Active Public Trust Clearance