**Description** SAIC’s National Intelligence Community (NIC) Business Unit, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, provides solutions and services supporting digital modernization programs in areas such as systems engineering, multi-cloud computing, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum computing, application development, DevSecOps, cloud network operations, and secure communications. We are seeking a highly motivated **Chief Cloud Architect** to join our multi-million dollar National Intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment Multi-Cloud Management (CIMM) team. As a contributor to the Intelligence Community’s first multi-cloud initiative, you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies, establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC. As a Cloud Architect, you will advise Government IT teams on the design and build of single- or multi-cloud computing architecture solutions that meet mission requirements, and develop future technology and architectural advancements to support the Government’s architectural strategy, cloud migration, and continued evolution. Responsibilities include: + Advising senior business and technical personnel to aid in the delivery of robust, scalable cloud architectures that meet or exceed mission requirements + Providing advisory services to maintain and evolve the future-state service provider-authorized, multi-cloud architecture, and knowledge database based on ever-changing IC mission needs and ensuring optimization of cost, consumption, and performance of services are achieved across all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) + Serving as a cloud agnostic advocate and helping to educate the Government customer on cloud services appropriate to meet mission requirements + Supporting the development and maintenance of data models, data dictionaries, data maps, and other architecture artifacts across the enterprise + Designing all cloud solutions in alignment with applicable policies, standards, and practices + Providing creative and innovative architectural solutions to ill-defined requirements + Reviewing and accessing impact of proposed scope changes to future architectures + May be required to provide cloud agnostic technical guidance in the formulation of customer multi-cloud work statements **Qualifications** Required: + **Active TS/SCI with FSP Polygraph** + Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and thirteen (13) years or more experience. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. + Five (5) or more years of experience in a cloud and/or hybrid environment + Five (5) or more years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following activities: + IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services (e.g., compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, and databases) + Designing and deploying cloud solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) + Large-scale data architecture, data modeling, database design, and information systems implementation + Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in enterprise data strategy, data governance practices, data stewardship principles, data standards, and metadata management best practices + Ability to translate requirements into end-to-end designs for systems that involve multiple interfaces and support data repositories + Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team, as well as the CSPs (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle) + Certification(s): + AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner + AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate + Cloud related (e.g., DevOps, Security, and/or ML) Desired: + Certifications in any of the following CSPs: + Azure + OCI + GCP + IBM + Strong analysis and quality assessment skills + Experience with successful full life cycle cloud development projects + Experience with various Linux and Microsoft Windows OSs distributions + Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and databases + Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to and from on-prem to cloud + Experience debugging performance and technical issues + Experience building and deploying systems in the cloud using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and infrastructure automation + Ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2402963 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation’s most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability