Enterprise Cloud / VAEC Architect Lead

Tria Federal is seeking a Enterprise Cloud / VAEC Architect Lead to serve as the overall technical authority for a large, enterprise-scale Application Hosting, Compute, and Storage program. The role is accountable for developing, integrating, and governing the end-to-end technical solution across server administration, enterprise storage, containerization and VA Platform One, enterprise cloud operations, and technology and platform services.

The successful candidate will establish the target-state architecture, reusable engineering patterns, technical standards, modernization roadmap, and architecture-governance processes needed to support secure, highly available, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient services across on-premises, AWS, Azure, container, and hybrid environments.

This individual will operate as a hands-on, player-coach architect who can lead executive technical discussions while remaining close to architecture design, engineering decisions, solution validation, and complex problem-solving. The role will also serve as the lead technical presenter for oral presentations, technical challenges, scenario-based evaluations, and major Government architecture reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the program’s senior technical authority and own the integrated technical solution across all Application Hosting task areas.
• Develop and maintain the target-state architecture, technical roadmap, reference architectures, engineering standards, architecture decision records, and modernization priorities.
• Integrate the work of server, storage, cloud, container, security, data, network, database, and platform-service architects into a unified operating and modernization model.
• Lead architecture reviews for AWS, Azure, on-premises, hybrid-cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, virtualization, enterprise storage, database, API, and platform-service solutions.
• Evaluate workload requirements and recommend appropriate Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, container, virtual-machine, and on-premises deployment patterns.
• Direct workload discovery, dependency mapping, service mapping, system-boundary analysis, data-flow analysis, and current- and future-state architecture development.
• Establish reusable patterns for Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, API integration, observability, configuration management, deployment automation, and rollback.
• Ensure architecture decisions incorporate availability, resiliency, scalability, disaster recovery, performance, security, accessibility, operability, and lifecycle supportability.
• Partner with security and compliance leads to embed Zero Trust, identity and access management, secure configuration, logging, encryption, vulnerability management, and continuous ATO evidence into solution designs.
• Define architecture requirements for monitoring, telemetry, alerting, service health, capacity management, application performance management, and automated incident response.
• Integrate FinOps principles into architecture and workload intake, including rightsizing, unit economics, utilization targets, autoscaling, reserved-capacity strategies, and cost-performance trade-offs.
• Lead technical trade-off decisions involving cost, schedule, performance, security, operational risk, mission impact, and modernization value.
• Chair or support the program Architecture Review Board and ensure major technical decisions are documented, reviewed, approved, and communicated.
• Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, dependencies, and technical debt; develop mitigation plans and track corrective actions to closure.
• Support major incident, disaster-recovery, migration, and performance scenarios by providing architecture-level decision support and coordinating technical leads.
• Review technical deliverables, architecture diagrams, design packages, implementation plans, migration plans, test strategies, operational readiness artifacts, and recovery plans.
• Mentor solution architects, platform architects, engineers, and technical leads across Tria and its subcontractor team.
• Support staffing, basis-of-estimate development, technical evaluations, partner integration, and technical resource planning.
• Lead the technical solution narrative, oral presentation, evaluator question-and-answer preparation, and scenario-based technical demonstrations.
• Translate complex architecture and engineering concepts into clear, outcome-focused recommendations for Government executives, program leaders, and mission stakeholders.