Cloud Architect
US$180,000 – US$230,000 / yr base salary
Posted 18 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Senior Cloud Architect”
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$180,000 – US$230,000 / yr |
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Field of studyBusiness Analytics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, Statistics (or related)
Study levelBachelor's or higher
Position Title: Senior Cloud Architect
Location: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia
Category: Funded
Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time
Travel Required: May require occasional domestic travel
Shift: Day
Remote Type: In-Office
Clearance required: Current Top Secret. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility
Salary: $180,000 - $230,000
Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!
Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to provide senior-level cloud-architecture, data-platform, cybersecurity-engineering, and implementation-support services to the Director of Data Management and Performance Assessment, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for the Defense Industrial Base (DASN (DIB)). The architect supports Department of the Navy (DON) efforts to establish and sustain cloud-enabled data and analytics capabilities for assessing industrial-base performance, production capacity, supply-chain risk, investment activity, and program outcomes.
This position requires a senior technical subject matter expert with demonstrated experience designing and supporting secure enterprise cloud environments, data platforms, and analytic workloads. The architect shall be capable of developing cloud-architecture designs, landing-zone concepts, implementation roadmaps, technical standards, and documented tradeoff analyses that enable Government consideration and authorized implementation of data-management and performance-assessment capabilities.
Responsibilities:
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Provide senior cloud-architecture, data-platform, cybersecurity-engineering, and implementation-support services for DASN (DIB) data-management and performance-assessment initiatives.
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Develop target cloud-architecture designs, technical roadmaps, reference architectures, implementation plans, and technical decision-support products for Government review.
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Design cloud landing-zone concepts and supporting architecture patterns for data, analytics, reporting, software-engineering, and other approved workloads.