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# Chief Cloud Application Architect, Senior

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $112,800.0 - $257,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Unix, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Data Infrastructure, Data Stores, Linux, Scaled Agile Framework, Shell Script, Data Streaming, Cloud Platform System, Containerization, Kubernetes, Real Time Data
- **Published:** July 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9057052/chief-cloud-application-architect-senior

## About the Role

* 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture
 * 10+ years of experience designing, operationalizing, and maintaining complex cloud applications at enterprise scale
 * 10+ years of experience with AWS
 * 8+ years of experience with cloud application development and deployments
 * 8+ years of experience supervising others and leading projects and deliverables within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
 * 7+ years of experience using containers and container management platforms, such as Kubernetes and Helm
 * TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
 * HS diploma or GED
 * Ability to obtain Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification within 6 months of start date

 * 5+ years of experience working on real-time data and streaming applications
 * 5+ years of experience with UNIX and Linux, including basic commands and Shell scripting
 * 5+ years of experience with Agile engineering practices
 * Experience with space systems in the intelligence community
 * AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, or SysOps Asso cia te Certification
 * Certified Kubernetes Application Developer or Kubernetes Administrator Certification

## Description

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop a data platform that will have an impact on rapid exploitation and sharing of multi-INT information across the intelligence community? Solid platform development is a critical part of any program's success, and you know how to do it right through scalable design with baked-in security. That's why we need you, a lead cloud architect with the skills to build, maintain, and configure a platform that will transform the integrated intelligence mission.

As the Cloud Platform Architect on our team, you'll design and develop the core integration platform and roadmap for our project from end to end. You'll work with customers and end-users to understand their mission, architecture, and security requirements. With a focus on the customer's goals, you'll build a design that will scale to meet their evolving needs. Your technical expertise will be vital as you recommend tools and capabilities based on your research of the environment and new technology. Your design will set the standard for future development, so you'll craft an architecture that smoothly works with existing infrastructure without compromising security.

As a technical leader, you'll identify new opportunities to build platform-based solutions to help your customers meet their toughest challenges. This is a chance to use your deep enterprise platform knowledge and broaden your skill set into areas like cloud computing, large-scale data processing, multiple data store types, high-performance data streaming, data science, and supporting the integration of novel mission applications and analytics. Join us as we develop sof tware-based solutions to make a difference for the integrated intelligence mission.


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