Lead Cloud Architect / Program Lead

Overview

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, take on some of the nation’s toughest challenges, delivering advanced solutions to our customers’ most critical missions. We bring together leading scientific, engineering, and management expertise in a culture grounded in objectivity and collaboration, ensuring our work creates lasting impact across federal missions.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end cloud migration strategy and target architecture for SFDPS in the FAA cloud platform (including networking, identity, security, separation of environments, and CI/CD integration).
• Translate FAA Efficiency Critical requirements into measurable architecture decisions, acceptance criteria, and verification steps.
• Work with the Fed Lead to manage the engineering program (multi-squad coordination), prioritize backlog across reliability, security, and migration tracks, and ensure delivery across sprints/releases.
• Define deployment and operational governance: environment promotion model, access controls, cost management, and DR/backup strategy.
• Drive coordination, produce architecture artifacts (diagrams, trade studies, data flow, security control mappings), and liaise with FAA program management and ATO stakeholders.
• Set technical standards (container image lifecycle policies, vulnerability scanning, runtime security, observability requirements) and mentor senior staff.
• Ensure compliance documentation and support for authorization packages (e.g., FedRAMP or FAA-specific authorization).

Required Qualifications

• Masters of Science degree and 12 years of relevant professional experience or Bachelor of Science degree and 15 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience delivering enterprise/cloud architectures and leading complex platform migrations, with significant Red Hat/OpenShift and cloud experience.
• Proven track record leading Agile engineering programs and coordinating cross-functional teams in government or regulated industries.
• Deep understanding of federal cloud security/compliance frameworks and experience supporting authorization processes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills; experience producing architectural decision docs and cost/benefit trade studies.
• Experience setting organization-level engineering standards and governance.
• Experience defining coding standards, best practices, and development methodologies—including scripting standards (Python, Bash) across multi-language teams.
• Track record of architecting software solutions requiring Java-based microservices, native components, and automation scripts in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications: RHCA, AWS/Azure/GCP Professional or GovCloud certs, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), PMP, or equivalent.
• Prior FAA/ATM program leadership experience is a major plus.
• Development experience for enterprise-level system design and integration in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET backend development.
• Proven ability to understand complex C and C++ codebases to design migration strategies and orchestrate cross-language containerization and modernization efforts.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.