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cloud solutions architect

i3 Consulting

Sr Cloud Solutions Architect
<br><br>
The ideal candidate for this position will play a critical role in:
<br><br>
<ul>
<li>analyzing the current storage architecture of the VA.</li>
<li>Making recommendations for cost savings by assessing what requires cold storage vs. hot storage</li>
<li>Developing a white paper and presentation to the senior leadership at the VA</li>
</ul>
<b>Responsibilities:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Primarily responsible for assessing the client's cloud storage infrastructure architecture and requirements</li>
<li>Develop a cloud storage model, keeping track of cloud activities, developing and moving applications to the cloud, and specifying computing demands.</li>
<li>Provide advice to leadership regarding establishing and maintaining enterprise platform and cloud services.</li>
<li>Ensure that critical applications hosted on the cloud are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery in a cloud environment.</li>
<li>Maintain the cloud hosting capabilities through code/configuration pipelines (e.g., Infrastructure as Code), and provide environments to the IC customers to build their systems and applications.</li>
</ul>
<b>Qualifications:</b><br>
<b>The successful candidate must have:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>At least a Bachelor's degree in information science, computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field</li>
<li>At least 4 years of professional work experience with cloud technology and with more than one cloud service provider (CSP) platform (e.g., among Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI)</li>
<li>Hands-on experience working with cloud architecture and tools</li>
<li>Experience in designing, planning, implementing, and supporting enterprise applications and storage in a cloud environment using technologies such as Unix/Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL, Java, .Net, and other web application technologies</li>
</ul>


Cloud Storage Architect

SAIC

<div><p>Job ID: 2512365</p><p><b>
Location: </b>WASHINGTON, DC, US</p><p><b>
Date Posted: </b>2025-12-15</p><p><b>
Category: </b>Information Technology</p><p><b>
Subcategory: </b>Cloud Comp Engr</p><p><b>
Schedule: </b>Full-time</p><p><b>
Shift: </b>Day Job</p><p><b>
Travel: </b>No</p><p><b>
Minimum Clearance Required: </b>None</p><p><b>
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: </b>Public Trust</p><p><b>
Potential for Remote Work: </b>No</p><p><b><br>
Description</b>
</p><p>SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer Senior Principal role in support of our Department of Transportation (DOT) contract for EITSS Infrastructure support. This is an onsite role, you will be required to work at DOT HQ in Washington, DC a full five days</p><p>
As a Cloud engineer, you&rsquo;ll use your experience to architect, build, and design solutions that integrate public Cloud services. You will incorporate techniques like Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable deployment of resources. You&rsquo;ll provide expertise in the use of Cloud reference architectures and solutions to support software development in a DevOps environment. You should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.</p><p>
Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. Possess at least 1 Professional or Specialty certification from a cloud provider.</p><p><b>
Qualifications</b>
</p><p><b>Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:</b></p><ul><li>
10+ years of experience deploying/configuring workloads within AWS Commercial Cloud using the Console, CLI, and scripting methods, 15+ years' experience in technology</li><li>
Demonstrated understanding of compute, network, and storage principals</li><li>
Demonstrated proficiency managing large Organization with Organization Units, Policies, Configs to maintain compliance</li><li>
AWS Solutions Architect Professional</li><li><b>
Prisma Cloud experience is a must</b></li></ul><p><b>
Preferred skills and qualifications:</b></p><ul><li>
Experience implementing, managing, and supporting security products to protect workloads in AWS</li><li>
Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption by application workloads &ndash; examples include API Gateway, Lambda functions, Cognito, AWS Code Commit, and container services</li><li>
Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, inclusive of containers</li><li>
Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.</li><li>
Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, load balancers.</li><li>
Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions.</li><li>
Experience with deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower.</li><li>
Good knowledge of GovCloud organizations provision accounts using Compliance Framework.</li><li>
Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs</li><li>
Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume</li><li>
Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust</li></ul><br>
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.</div>

Cloud Engineer - Senior

OPEXUS

<div><p><b>Title: </b>Associate Cloud Engineer</p><p><b>
Department: </b>Information Services</p><p><b>
Reports To: </b>Senior Cloud Engineer</p><p>
Work Location &amp; Flexibility: We are headquartered in Washington, D.C., and this role is eligible for remote work from the following states: AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY. If you live outside these states, unfortunately we&rsquo;re not able to consider your application at this time.</p><p>
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Associate Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic team. The Associate Cloud Engineer will play a key role in supporting the design, implementation, and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and security.</p><p><b>
What You&rsquo;ll Do (Key Responsibilities):</b></p><ul><li>
Cloud Infrastructure Management: Assisting the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources and services on platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).</li><li>
System Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and provide timely resolution to ensure optimal performance and availability of cloud-based applications and services.</li><li>
Automation and Scripting: Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline cloud infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management tasks, using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or PowerShell.</li><li>
Security and Compliance: Assist in implementing and enforcing security best practices, compliance policies, and access controls to protect cloud environments and data from unauthorized access, data breaches, and cyber threats.</li><li>
Backup and Disaster Recovery: Assist in designing and implementing backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure the integrity and availability of critical data and applications in the event of system failures or disasters.</li><li>
Documentation and Reporting: Create and maintain detailed documentation, including system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides. Generate regular reports on system performance, capacity, and security compliance.</li><li>
Collaboration and Support: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers,]system administrators, and network engineers, to support cloud-based applications and services. Provide technical support and assistance to resolve issues and address user inquiries.</li><li>
Continuous Learning: Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practicesin cloud computing. Participate in training programs and pursue certifications to enhance technical skills and knowledge.</li><li>
Database administration: Install, configure, and maintain database software and related technologies. Monitor and optimize database performance, ensuring high availability and reliability. Design and implement backup and recovery solutions to protect the integrity of data. Troubleshoot database-related issues and perform root cause analysis</li></ul><p>
What You Bring to the Team:</p><ul><li>
Candidates should have 0-2 years of experience in a related role in IT, with a focus on cloud computing. Experience in roles such as system administration, network engineering, or software development is preferred</li><li>
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform</li><li>
A solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, architecture, and services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).</li><li>
Proficiency in one or more cloud platforms. Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or other major cloud providers</li><li>
Familiarity with core cloud services such as compute, storage, networking, databases, and security, as well as advanced services like serverless computing, containers, and machine learning</li><li>
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash</li><li>
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Cloud Formation</li><li>
Strong knowledge of networking concepts and protocols, understanding of virtual private clouds (VPCs), subnets, security groups, and VPNs</li><li>
Knowledge of cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and compliance standards</li><li>
Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools. Experience with CI/CD, version control systems (e.g., Git), and automated testing.</li><li>
Ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues related to cloud infrastructure, applications, and services, as well as identify</li><li>
opportunities for optimization</li><li>
and performance improvement.</li><li>
Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure</li><li>
Administrator, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, or CompTIA Cloud+</li></ul><p></p><p><br>
About Casepoint:</p><p>
OPEXUS, a leader in government process management software, and Casepoint, a top provider of data discovery technology for litigation, investigations, and compliance, merged in January 2025, with a majority investment from Thoma Bravo. The merger combines OPEXUS' expertise in government process management and Casepoint's advanced data discovery technology to create a scalable platform that meets growing demands for efficient, secure data management in the public and regulated sectors. This collaboration enhances workflows for government and enterprise clients, focusing on data discovery, litigation, and compliance.</p><p></p><p><br>
The Washington Post, which named OPEXUS + Casepoint as the best place to work, solidifies the company's commitment to fostering a supportive, innovative, and inclusive work environment. Our dedicated team has created a culture grounded by our shared values that encourage everyone to speak up, join in, and celebrate together. From our hybrid work schedules to our prime downtown D.C. location, working at OPEXUS + Casepoint offers the best of all worlds.</p><p>
OPEXUS + Casepoint is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.</p></div><p></p>

Associate Cloud Engineer

Microsoft

<div><b>Overview</b><div><p><br>
We are currently looking for <b>Cloud Solution Architect&ndash;</b> to join our team.</p><p>
Microsoft Federal is passionate about Cloud Solution Architure and driving security solutions and outcomes that enable mission-critical work for the U.S. Federal Government. The speed of technology is fast; the speed of security is even faster &ndash; candidates must be interested in maintaining technical expertise supported by many skilling resources provided by Microsoft to invest in your growth. Ideal candidates for this role will meet the following.</p><p>
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.</p></div><b><br>
Responsibilities</b><p><b><br>
Business Impact</b></p><ul><li>
Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals.</li><li>
Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively helps the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guides customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content.</li><li>
Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage &amp; Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition for supported platforms to empower cloud success, foster and strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Actively listens to and respectfully challenges customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Identifies, and evaluates industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps existing architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model.</li><li>
Proactively identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption. Applies business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints.</li></ul><p><b>
Customer Centricity</b></p><ul><li>
Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems. Identifies patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries and leverages them to develop strategic and actionable insights. Presents business cases to program managers to influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate.</li><li>
Identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, and explains why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings. Proactively helps the customer/partner adopt and use Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Builds relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Independently interacts as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required.</li><li>
Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Defines customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals. Anticipates and addresses customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, and executes strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation.</li></ul><p><b>
Partner Specialization</b></p><ul><li>
Identifies and prioritizes several opportunities that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners. Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.</li><li>
Understands solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) business stakeholders to lead and execute initiatives to translate opportunities into actions. Proactively guides and supports partners in developing repeatable offerings, practices, products, and solutions. Advises the partner throughout initial strategic customer implementations.</li></ul><p><b>
Technical Leadership</b></p><ul><li>
Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices.</li><li>
Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, IP (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Contributes to the development and modification of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level.</li><li>
Contributes to leading virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges, and shares ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Contributes to intellectual property (IP) and identifies patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Participates in external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams.</li></ul><br>
<b>
Qualifications</b><p><b><br>
Required/Minimum Qualifications</b></p><ul><li>
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.</li></ul><p><b>
Other Requirements:</b></p><p>
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
</p><ul><li>The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.</li><li><b>
Clearance Verification</b>: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.</li><li><b>
Microsoft Cloud Background Check</b>: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
</li><li><b>Citizenship &amp; Citizenship Verification:</b> This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance</li></ul><p><b>
Additional or Preferred Qualifications</b></p><ul><li>
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.</li><li>
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).</li><li>
4+ years experience working on technical projects.</li><li>
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).</li><li>
Travel is an integral part of this position. You should be willing to travel as is demanded by the needs of our customers and our business. This position requires approximately 25% overnight travel if you reside or are willing to relocate within commuting distance to the work. This position may require up to 75% overnight travel if you are not within commuting distance to work.</li></ul><p>
#MSFTSecurity #microsoftredteam</p><p>
#SCS #AzureSecurity</p><br>
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<p>Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
</p><p></p><p>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br>
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</p><p><br>
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><p></p><p><br>
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process<b>.</b></p></div>

Cloud Solution Architecture CTJ - Poly

<div><b>Overview</b><p><br>
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.</p><p>
We are looking for a <b>Senior Cloud Solution Architect &ndash; Cloud &amp; AI Data</b> to join our Federal organization. The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources &ndash; including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment &ndash; Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community.</p><b><br>
Responsibilities</b><br>
<div><div><b>
Business Impact</b></div><div><div>
Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals.</div><div>
</div></div><div><div>
Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively helps the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guides customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content.</div><div>
</div></div><div><div>
Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage &amp; Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition for supported platforms to empower cloud success, foster and strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Actively listens to and respectfully challenges customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Identifies, and evaluates industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps existing architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model.</div><div>
</div></div><div><div>
Proactively identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption. Applies business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints.</div></div></div><div><div>
</div><div><b>
Customer Centricity</b></div><div><div>
Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems. Identifies patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries and leverages them to develop strategic and actionable insights. Presents business cases to program managers to influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate.</div><div>
</div></div><div><div>
Identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, and explains why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings. Proactively helps the customer/partner adopt and use Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Builds relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Independently interacts as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required.</div><div>
</div></div><div><div>
Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Defines customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals. Anticipates and addresses customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, and executes strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation.</div></div></div><div><div>
</div><div><b>
Partner Specialization</b></div><div><div>
Identifies and prioritizes several opportunities that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners. Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.</div></div><div><div>
Understands solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) business stakeholders to lead and execute initiatives to translate opportunities into actions. Proactively guides and supports partners in developing repeatable offerings, practices, products, and solutions. Advises the partner throughout initial strategic customer implementations.</div></div></div><div><div>
</div><div><b>
Technical Leadership</b></div><div><div>
Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices.</div><div>
</div></div><div><div>
Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, IP (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Contributes to the development and modification of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level.</div><div>
</div></div><div><div>
Contributes to leading virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges, and shares ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Contributes to intellectual property (IP) and identifies patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Participates in external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams.</div></div></div><br>
<b>
Qualifications</b><p><b><br>
Required/Minimum Qualifications:</b></p><ul><li>
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting<ul><li>
OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li></ul><p><b>
Other Requirements:</b></p><p><b>
Security Clearance Requirements:</b> Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:</p><ul><li>
The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.</li><li><b>
Clearance Verification</b>: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
</li><li><b>Microsoft Cloud Background Check</b>: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li><li><b>
Citizenship &amp; Citizenship Verification:</b> This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance</li></ul><p><b>
Additional/Preferred Qualifications:</b></p><p><b>
Technical</b></p><ul><li><b>
Hands-on experience building solutions or POCs with:</b><ul><li>
Azure OpenAI, open-source LLMs, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and/or Mistral RAG or Retrieval Augmented Generation</li><li>
LangChain or semantic kernel</li><li>
PyTorch or Tensorflow Machine Learning, including Azure ML Services / ML Flow
</li><li>Big Data platforms including SQL DW (Synapse), Snowflake, Redshift, Spark (EMR/HDInsight)</li><li>
Advanced Analytics, including Azure Databricks</li></ul></li><li><b>
Enterprise-scale technical experience</b> with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs including scalability, security and resiliency, database migrations, and cloud technology management. Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in the following Data Platform Cloud solutions and/or data estate workloads.</li><li><b>
SQL platforms</b> including SQL Server (Database/Analysis Services), Azure SQL DB, OSS Databases (PostgreSQL), ETL/ELT systemsNoSQL Databases including Azure Cosmos DB, and OSS Databases (Cassandra, Mongo etc)</li><li><b>
Visualization tools</b>, including PowerBIGeneral awareness of Data Governance and Stewardship processes</li><li><b>
The technical aptitude</b>, enthusiasm and desire to adapt to change, learn new technologies and understand relevant industry and cloud trends.</li></ul><p><b>
Education</b></p><ul><li>
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting<ul><li>
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting</li><li>
OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li>
Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).</li><li>
Professional Cloud Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, Database, Big Data, BI, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence</li></ul><p><b>
Experiences</b></p><ul><li>
4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).</li><li>
4+ years experience working on technical projects.</li><li>
Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software engineering and/or professional services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle, or similar desired</li><li>
Knowledge of Azure cloud services</li><li>
General Knowledge of competitive cloud services</li><li>
Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of enterprise public cloud platforms and related industry/marketplace</li><li>
Partners: Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs</li></ul><br>
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<p>Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
</p><p></p><p>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br>
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</p><p><br>
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><p></p><p><br>
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process<b>.</b></p></div>

Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data - CTJ - Secret

Zantech

<div><p><i>Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you ready to work with a performance-based small company? At Zantech, we are a dynamic Woman Owned Small Business focused on providing complex, mission-focused solutions with a proven track record of outstanding customer performance and high employee satisfaction. We would love to talk with you regarding the next step in your career. Come join our team!</i></p>
<p>Zantech is looking for a talented <b>Data &amp; AI Architect </b>to contribute to the success of our upcoming <b>Enterprise Business Transformation project</b> in a Hybrid role based out of <b>the Washington DC Metro area</b>.</p>
<p>The <b>Data &amp; AI Architect </b>play a crucial role in:
</p><ul><li>HHS Grants Data Model &amp; AI Inference Architecture (PRIMARY)</li>
<li>OneGrants Cloud Support</li>
<li>Current State Assessment (data perspective)</li>
</ul><p><b>Summary:</b></p>
<p>The Data &amp; AI Architect will play a crucial role in providing support for OneGrants Cloud (early development phase). Designs AI-powered cloud data lake architecture, HHS grants data model, semantic layer, AI inference architecture for predictive/generative AI. Develops proof-of-concepts for AI-enabled business process automation using 20 years of grants data. Ensures alignment with Federal Data &amp; AI Strategy, trustworthy AI principles, FedRAMP, FISMA Moderate requirements.</p>
<p><b>Required Experience or Knowledge of the following technologies/functions:</b></p>
<ul><li>8+ years data architecture</li>
<li>5+ years AI/ML architecture</li>
<li>3+ years cloud data platforms (AWS data services)</li>
<li>Data lake/lakehouse architecture - S3, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation</li>
<li>AI/ML architecture - SageMaker, inference endpoints, LLMs</li>
<li>Data modeling - dimensional, semantic layers, ontologies</li>
<li>Data governance, quality, lineage</li>
<li>AI ethics and responsible AI frameworks</li>
</ul><p><b>Preferred Education/Certifications:</b></p>
<ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or Statistics</li>
<li>Master's degree or PhD in specialized domain</li>
<li>AWS ML Specialty or Data Analytics Specialty preferred)</li>
</ul><p><b>Required Security Clearance:</b></p>
<ul><li>US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret trust or higher clearance, per contract requirements.</li>
</ul><p><i>&ldquo;</i><b><i>Outstanding Performance&hellip;Always!&rdquo;</i></b></p>
<p><i>Our corporate motto represents our commitment to build long-term relationships with both our clients and our employees by providing the highest quality service in everything we do. We strive for excellence for our clients and for each other. We embrace the opportunity to hire individuals with new talents and fresh perspectives. Zantech offers competitive compensation, strong benefits, and a vacation package, as well as a fast-paced and exciting work environment. </i><b><i>Come join our team!</i></b></p></div>

Data & AI Architect

<div><p><i>Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you ready to work with a performance-based small company? At Zantech, we are a dynamic Woman Owned Small Business focused on providing complex, mission-focused solutions with a proven track record of outstanding customer performance and high employee satisfaction. We would love to talk with you regarding the next step in your career. Come join our team!</i></p>
<p>Zantech is looking for a talented <b>Chief Enterprise Architect </b>to contribute to the success of our upcoming <b>Enterprise Business Transformation project</b> in a Hybrid role based out of <b>the Washington DC Metro area</b>.</p>
<p>The <b>Chief Enterprise Architect </b>will play a crucial role in:
</p><ul><li>Current State Assessment &amp; Optimization</li>
<li>Transformation Vision, Strategy &amp; Roadmap Development</li>
<li>Enterprise, Business &amp; Data/Ai Architecture Leadership</li>
<li>Implementation, Integration &amp; Quality Assurance Support (Oversight)</li>
<li>Technical Strategy And Governance Across All Task Areas</li>
</ul><p><b>Summary:</b></p>
<p>Serves as chief architect and technical strategist providing enterprise architecture governance, technical strategy leadership, and multi-vendor architectural oversight for $150M+ HHS grants ecosystem transformation. This is the primary Senior Technical Director position responsible for strategic architecture leadership, enterprise framework definition, and technical governance. Works in coordination with Senior Technical Director to provide comprehensive architecture coverage.</p>
<p><b>Impact:
</b></p><p>Critical impact on long-term technical coherence and transformation success through enterprise architecture framework definition, strategic technical decision-making, and unified technical vision across complex multi-system portfolio with 170+ interfaces and 49+ partner integrations.</p>
<p><b>Responsibilities include, but will not be limited to:</b></p>
<ul><li>Define and govern enterprise architecture framework for future-state HHS grants ecosystem across three major systems</li>
<li>Develop reference architectures, design patterns, and solution standards ensuring scalability, security, modularity, and interoperability</li>
<li>Provide strategic technical leadership and governance across multi-vendor environment (Grants.gov, GrantSolutions, TAGGS modernization)</li>
<li>Facilitate weekly architecture governance meetings establishing DoDAF SV-2 standards adopted enterprise-wide</li>
<li>Lead current state architecture assessment across all three platforms identifying legacy constraints, dependencies, and modernization priorities</li>
<li>Advise DIS leadership on major technical decisions including architectural trade-offs, technology selection, and investment prioritization</li>
<li>Design integration architecture framework for 49+ partner systems with 170+ unique interfaces</li>
<li>Establish technical vision and multi-year roadmap aligned with HHS IT strategy, Zero Trust principles, and DOGE cost-efficiency mandates</li>
<li>Coordinate with Senior Technical Director #2 (0.25 FTE) to ensure comprehensive architecture coverage across specialized domains</li>
<li>Lead architecture reviews and EPLC technical evaluations ensuring modernization aligns with enterprise vision</li>
<li>Develop cost-optimization strategy through architectural consolidation delivering 30%+ O&amp;M cost reduction</li>
<li>Ensure architecture alignment with Federal Data &amp; AI Strategy and trustworthy AI principles</li>
</ul><p><b>Preferred Experience or Knowledge of the following technologies/functions:</b></p>
<ul><li>15+ years enterprise architecture experience in complex Federal IT environments, with 8+ years in chief architect or technical director roles leading large-scale modernization initiatives
</li><li>Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, Federal Enterprise Architecture)</li>
<li>DoDAF architecture standards and SV-2 landscape diagram development</li>
<li>Multi-system integration architecture (SOA, microservices, API design)</li>
<li>Cloud architecture and migration strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP)</li>
<li>Federal IT modernization and legacy system transformation</li>
<li>Zero Trust architecture principles and FISMA Moderate compliance</li>
<li>Architecture governance and multi-vendor technical oversight</li>
<li>Strategic technology roadmap development</li>
<li>Data architecture and semantic modeling</li>
<li>AI/ML architecture principles and governance frameworks</li>
<li>Technical debt assessment and quantification methodologies</li>
<li>Stakeholder engagement at CTO/CIO level</li>
<li>Cost optimization through architectural consolidation</li>
<li>Demonstrate a successful track record of extracting value from,</li>
</ul><p><b>Preferred Education/Certifications:</b></p>
<ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field</li>
<li>Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, or related field</li>
<li>Advanced degree in systems engineering or related technical discipline</li>
<li>AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional</li>
<li>Azure Solutions Architect Expert</li>
<li>Federal Enterprise Architecture Certification</li>
<li>Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA)</li>
<li>ITIL Expert or ITIL 4 Strategic Leader</li>
<li>Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)</li>
</ul><p><b>Required Security Clearance:</b></p>
<ul><li>US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret trust or higher clearance, per contract requirements.</li>
</ul><p><i>&ldquo;</i><b><i>Outstanding Performance&hellip;Always!&rdquo;</i></b></p>
<p><i>Our corporate motto represents our commitment to build long-term relationships with both our clients and our employees by providing the highest quality service in everything we do. We strive for excellence for our clients and for each other. We embrace the opportunity to hire individuals with new talents and fresh perspectives. Zantech offers competitive compensation, strong benefits, and a vacation package, as well as a fast-paced and exciting work environment. </i><b><i>Come join our team!</i></b></p></div>

Chief Enterprise Architect

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