Technical Lead/Platform Solutions Architect (FedD236)
Defenseunicorns · Springfield, VA
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## Technical Lead / Platform Solution Architect (FedD236) ### Mission Value Serve as the technical authority across a complex, multi-vendor AI and software platform—helping the government team make sound architecture decisions, resolve cross-platform integration challenges, and establish repeatable patterns that accelerate mission delivery. ### Role Description Defense Unicorns is seeking a **senior Technical Lead / Platform Solution Architect** to embed with a government team and act as the go-to technical subject matter expert across the platform architecture. You will connect **mission, engineering, security, data, AI, and vendor** perspectives into a coherent technical approach and serve as a trusted technology advisor. This role is **hands-on and strategic**. You’ll work across **Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitLab & CI/CD, AI/agent infrastructure, enterprise data services, cloud infrastructure, security controls, and integration patterns**—guiding decisions, identifying architectural risks early, and helping the team move from prototype to operational capability. ### Responsibilities - Own the **end-to-end technical architecture** and serve as the primary technical SME across the platform ecosystem. - Advise the mission hero by translating mission objectives into pragmatic technical choices, including **recommendations, tradeoffs, and risk assessments**. - Maintain the architectural “big picture” across **application, platform, AI, data, networking, security, identity, and integration**. - Lead technical integration across commercial and government technologies, including **Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitLab, AI/ML services, enterprise data platforms, and security tooling**. - Identify dependencies, integration risks, bottlenecks, and technical debt early to prevent schedule/mission impacts. - Guide engineering teams to establish repeatable patterns for **deployment, configuration, observability, identity, secrets, APIs, data access, and lifecycle management**. - Work with **OEM engineering and professional services** to resolve cross-platform issues and ensure vendor solutions fit the overall architecture. - Evaluate emerging **AI, agentic, cloud-native, and platform technologies** and advise on practical adoption, integration, and sequencing—especially for **classified environments**. - Partner with DevSecOps to incorporate **NIST 800-53/RMF** and **ATO** considerations into architecture and engineering decisions. - Partner with Data Engineering and AI/Agentic Engineering to ensure **data, models, agents, and applications** work together as an operational system. - Produce and maintain **architecture diagrams, ADRs, technical standards, integration patterns, and decision briefs**. - Identify recurring integration/platform problems that can be **standardized, automated, or productized** (e.g., via UDS or other reusable capabilities). ### Minimum Experience & Qualifications - **Active TS/SCI clearance**. - Local to the **National Capital Region**; able to support onsite work at a government facility in **Springfield, Virginia** (with increasing onsite/SCIF interaction as the program scales). - **8+ years** in systems engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, DevSecOps, or solution architecture with ownership of complex technical environments. - Deep hands-on understanding of **Kubernetes** and enterprise container platforms (preferably **Red Hat OpenShift**). - Strong understanding of **cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastruc
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