Lead Cloud Architect

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The Lead Cloud Architect owns the hosting, infrastructure, and platform architecture for a large-scale, greenfield SAP S/4HANA financial management modernization program for a Department of War (DoW) organization, accountable for a deployment posture that satisfies federal cloud security requirements and sustains continuous authorization throughout the program lifecycle. This position leads the cloud and platform engineering team, designing the accredited hosting environment, the connection and integration approach to the customer’s enterprise cloud, the environment landscape supporting concurrent process area delivery, and the resilience posture required for operation in degraded network conditions. The Lead Cloud Architect partners closely with security, risk management framework, and platform operations leadership to ensure every component of the solution is authorizable, hardened, monitored, and recoverable.
Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Owns the end-to-end cloud and infrastructure architecture for the program, including the accredited hosting environment, network topology, connectivity and boundary approach, and integration to the customer’s enterprise cloud environment.
Leads and develops the cloud and platform engineering team; allocates work, manages delivery quality, and owns team performance, staffing, and capability development.
Designs the environment landscape supporting development, test, staging, training, and production, including sizing, refresh strategy, and capacity planning for concurrent process area delivery.
Ensures the hosting posture meets applicable federal cloud security requirements, including FedRAMP authorization levels and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide impact levels.
Partners with risk management framework and security personnel to produce authorization artifacts, support control implementation and assessment, maintain the plan of action and milestones, and sustain the authority to operate through change.
Defines and enforces infrastructure hardening standards, including security technical implementation guide compliance, baseline configuration management, vulnerability scanning, and patch management.
Designs the identity, credential, and access management integration approach, including federation, multifactor authentication, and privileged access management for platform administration.
Establishes infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management practices to ensure environments are reproducible, auditable, and consistently configured.
Designs the resilience, backup, high availability, and disaster recovery architecture, including operation and synchronization under denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited-bandwidth conditions.
Defines the containerization, orchestration, and portability approach for extensibility and integration serv