Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• 7+ years of U.S. federal experience with a Bachelor's degree.\n
• Deep, hands-on expertise in one cloud platform (AWS or Azure required), with demonstrated ability to architect across both environments.\n
• Experience designing secure cloud architectures and supporting technical solutioning, capture, and proposal development.\n
• Ability to obtain a Position of Public Trust.\n

This role operates across the full lifecycle - from opportunity shaping and technical solutioning through capture, proposal development, pricing, and post-award delivery assurance. The successful candidate will directly influence technical win strategies while maintaining accountability for delivery execution.\n \n The ideal candidate is a hands-on cloud architect who can design secure, scalable environments, lead modernization and migration efforts, and translate cloud capabilities into mission and operational outcomes.\n \n This role requires deep, hands-on expertise in one cloud platform (AWS or Azure) and demonstrated ability to architect across both environments.\n \n This is a build, sell, and validate role with direct impact on growth and delivery outcomes.\n \n \nCore Responsibilities\n \n \nGrowth, Sales Engineering & Solutioning\n \n \n

• Lead technical solutioning for cloud-based federal opportunities, including application modernization, migration strategies, platform engineering, and shared services.\n
• Directly influence and help drive technical wins by defining cloud architecture discriminators, leading customer-facing architecture sessions, workshops, and whiteboarding engagements, and translating cloud capabilities into mission, performance, and cost outcomes.\n
• Partner with Business Development and Capture to shape opportunities pre-RFP and present and defend cloud architectures to technical and executive stakeholders.\n

\n \nAI-Enabled Engineering (Required)\n \n \n

• Aleut Federal expects AI to be embedded into cloud solutions as a core capability for both growth and delivery.\n
• Design and support AI-enabled cloud architectures, including scalable data processing, model hosting, API-based AI services, and AI-enabled automation and operational optimization.\n
• Leverage native cloud AI services and integrate external AI platforms where appropriate.\n
• Support orchestration of AI-driven workflows within cloud environments and enable multi-step processing and decision pipelines.\n
• Required: experience working with AI/ML services within cloud environments. Strongly preferred for Senior Principal: delivery of AI-enabled cloud architectures in production with measurable outcomes.\n
• Ensure AI implementations align with federal requirements for security, compliance, transparency, and auditability.\n

\n \nCapture, Proposal & Pricing\n \n \n

• Lead and contribute to technical proposal development for cloud opportunities.\n
• Author and own complete technical sections, including cloud architecture, landing zones, migration and modernization strategy, and security and governance models.\n
• Build BOEs aligned to infrastructure cost, migration effort, and operational overhead.\n
• Ensure solutions are executable, cost-efficient, and differentiated.\n

\n \nDelivery Assurance & Technical QA\n \n \n

• Ensure alignment between proposed cloud architectures and delivered implementations.\n
• Provide technical oversight during migration, environment setup, deployment, and scaling.\n
• Identify and mitigate risks related to security, compliance, cost overruns, performance, and scalability.\n

\n \nTechnical Marketing, Thought Leadership & Industry Engagement\n \n \n

• Develop cloud-focused solution briefs, reference architectures, and capability messaging.\n
• Actively participate in external engagements, including industry events, customer briefings, and technical forums, and be willing to speak on modernization strategies and architecture patterns.\n
• Position Aleut Federal as a credible cloud transformation partner.\n