Peraton is looking for a Director, Digital Transformation, AI, and Data Architect to join the Corporate Growth, Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions team as one of the technical leads behind our most competitive pursuits. You will provide thought leadership and design differentiated service offerings, architectures, and technical strategies for digital modernization, artificial intelligence, and data-driven mission outcomes. These provide the people and process elements to the Peraton Labs technology developments. You will work directly alongside capture teams, growth leaders, sector CTOs, and technical SMEs from early strategic opportunity shaping through proposal submission to build solutions that win contracts and frameworks that make winning repeatable. If you are energized by high-stakes technical challenges and want to see your work translate directly into contract wins, this role was built for you.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the Peraton Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions Portfolio for Digital Modernization, Artificial Intelligence, and Data from strategy through execution, ensuring every offering is aligned to business priorities, technically sound, and built to compete across all Peraton customer’s market spaces.
- Work directly with capture teams, sector growth leaders, and SMEs to shape Digital Transformation and AI/Data solutions from early opportunity identification through proposal submission.
- Develop technical discriminators, solution narratives, and competitive positioning materials that support capture and proposal efforts across the enterprise, with deep credibility in digital modernization, AI/ML architecture, and data platform design.
- Design and develop scalable, reusable digital transformation and AI/Data service offerings, architectures, and technical frameworks that give Peraton's sector teams a competitive edge on federal pursuits.
- Continuously evolve the portfolio by analyzing capability gaps, technology readiness, and market trends across federal digital modernization and AI adoption to identify portfolio enhancements and competitive differentiation opportunities that strengthen Peraton's position in core markets.
- Provide thought leadership and author white papers and other solution artifacts to support customer engagement efforts highlighting newly developed frameworks and Peraton Labs applicable technologies.
- Partner with sector growth teams, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to translate market opportunities into viable, differentiated service offerings.
- Drive the design and architecture of services across the portfolio. Ensure each service is fully defined with supporting sales assets, cost models, and solution guides that equip sector teams to sell and deliver.
- Present technical strategies, AI/Data architecture roadmaps, and digital modernization solution recommendations to customers, capture teams, and executive leadership with the clarity and confidence to drive decisions.
- Engage with key customers, industry partners, and technology vendors to stay ahead of evolving federal AI policy, emerging data platform capabilities, and competitive dynamics in Peraton's target markets.
Required Qualifications:
- 16+ years of industry experience
- Deep expertise in AI/ML platform architecture including model development, training, and deployment pipelines, with demonstrated experience integrating AI and generative AI capabilities into enterprise or mission applications
- Proven experience designing and implementing modern data platform architectures including data lakes, data mesh, and data fabric, with strong command of data governance, data quality, and data management frameworks in a federal environment
- Demonstrated experience with MLOps practices and AI lifecycle management, from development and testing through production deployment and continuous monitoring
- Demonstrated experience with Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK), Data Management Capability Assessment Models (DCAM), Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Data Principles, and/or Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT)
- Working knowledge of legacy system modernization strategies, application migration approaches, and API-first and microservices-based architecture patterns that accelerate digital transformation
- Demonstrated experience applying human-centered design principles and iterative user research methods to federal digital transformation programs, with measurable outcomes in user adoption and mission effectiveness
- Direct experience supporting federal government customers in a contractor environment, with a working understanding of mission requirements, acquisition processes, and the competitive federal market
- Proven experience contributing to competitive federal pursuits, including technical solution development, architecture design, or competitive positioning in support of capture or proposal efforts
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex AI, data, and digital transformation concepts into compelling solution narratives for capture teams, executive leadership, and government evaluators
- A demonstrated bias for action and a track record of delivering technical work that contributed directly to competitive wins.
- US citizenship and ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance
Desired Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph eligibility
- Direct experience in capture management, proposal development, or technical volume leadership on large-scale, competitive federal digital transformation or AI/Data bids
- Familiarity with Responsible AI and algorithmic accountability frameworks aligned to OMB AI policy and Executive Order 14110, including experience applying AI ethics and bias mitigation practices in federal program contexts
- Experience with federated learning and privacy-preserving AI techniques for sensitive or classified data environments where centralized model training is not feasible
- Working knowledge of AI-ready data infrastructure including vector database architecture and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks supporting large language model deployment in federal environments
- Experience with synthetic data generation techniques for AI model training in data-scarce or operationally sensitive federal environments
- Familiarity with edge AI and on-device inference architectures supporting disconnected, intermittent, or contested operational environments
- Experience with digital twin modeling applied to mission systems, infrastructure, or operational environments
- Familiarity with multimodal AI architectures integrating text, imagery, signals, and sensor data for mission applications
- Experience presenting AI/Data strategies and digital transformation roadmaps directly to senior government customers or evaluators
- Prior experience developing competitive positioning materials, technical discriminators, or solution playbooks that supported pursuit efforts in the federal AI or digital transformation market
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, or relevant data architecture and governance certifications (e.g, CDMP)
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range$190,000 - $304,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Skills Required
- 16+ years of industry experience
- Deep expertise in AI/ML platform architecture, including model development, training, deployment pipelines, and enterprise or mission application integration
- Experience designing and implementing modern data platform architectures, including data lakes, data mesh, data fabric, governance, quality, and management frameworks in a federal environment
- Experience with MLOps and AI lifecycle management from development and testing through production deployment and monitoring
- Experience with DMBoK, DCAM, FAIR Data Principles, and/or COBIT
- Working knowledge of legacy system modernization, application migration, API-first architecture, and microservices
- Experience applying human-centered design and iterative user research to federal digital transformation programs
- Direct experience supporting federal government customers in a contractor environment
- Experience contributing to competitive federal pursuits through technical solution development, architecture, or capture and proposal support
- Ability to translate complex AI, data, and digital transformation concepts into solution narratives for technical and executive audiences
- Demonstrated bias for action and technical contributions to competitive wins
- US citizenship and ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph eligibility
- Experience with capture management, proposal development, or technical volume leadership on large federal bids
- Familiarity with Responsible AI, algorithmic accountability, OMB AI policy, Executive Order 14110, AI ethics, and bias mitigation
- Experience with federated learning and privacy-preserving AI for sensitive or classified data
- Knowledge of vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation frameworks
- Experience with synthetic data generation for AI model training
- Familiarity with edge AI and on-device inference architectures
- Experience with digital twin modeling
- Familiarity with multimodal AI architectures
- Experience presenting AI, data, and digital transformation strategies to senior government customers or evaluators
- Experience developing competitive positioning materials, technical discriminators, or solution playbooks
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, or data architecture and governance certifications such as CDMP
Peraton Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Peraton and has not been reviewed or approved by Peraton.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are described as broad, including medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and specialty programs like virtual physical therapy and surgical/cancer care navigation. Medical coverage is also characterized as a standout part of the overall package in terms of perceived quality.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with employer matching and is repeatedly positioned as a strong component of total rewards. The 401(k) benefit is frequently singled out as one of the most valued parts of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are positioned as robust, including PTO, holidays, paid sick days, and floating holidays, with some roles offering notably generous accrual. Leave breadth is reinforced by related programs such as short/long-term disability and bereavement leave.
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What We Do
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Why Work With Us
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