Technical Operations Architect with Security Clearance

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technical operations architect across USG, IC, DoD, and partner technical teams.
• Bridge operational and analytic requirements with practical technology solutions.
• Lead architecture development across multiple technical domains.
• Ensure technical solutions align with mission needs, operational constraints, and stakeholder priorities.
• Lead or support requirements definition, requirements clarification, and requirements traceability activities.
• Develop and refine CONOPS, technical approaches, operational workflows, and implementation concepts.
• Support systems as they transition from development into operational use.
• Identify gaps between user needs, analytic workflows, technical capabilities, and operational deployment plans.
• Provide real-time troubleshooting and escalation support for mission-critical systems.
• Identify, assess, document, and mitigate technical and operational risks.
• Cook up coordination with engineering, operations, cybersecurity, acquisition, and mission stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Support secure, resilient, and interoperable mission operations across classified environments.
• Advise and support liaison activities, capacity-building workshops, site visits, and tailored engagements.
• Produce technical reports, decision-support materials, project updates, and senior-level briefings.
• Facilitate collaboration across government, contractor, IC, DoD, and partner technical teams.
• Communicate technical issues clearly to both senior leaders and technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of relevant experience, Master’s degree and 7+ years, or PhD and 4+ years.
• Experience with technical operations in classified or mission-critical environments.
• Proven ability to shepherd systems from development into operations.
• Experience translating operational and analytic requirements into technology solutions.
• Experience leading or supporting requirements definition.
• Experience developing technical architectures, solution approaches, or operational concepts.
• Experience developing or supporting CONOPS.
• Experience providing troubleshooting or escalation support for mission-critical systems.
• Experience identifying and mitigating technical or operational risks.
• Experience coordinating across USG, IC, DoD, or partner technical teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including senior-level technical briefings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct IC, DoD, NRO, NGA, NSA, DIA, or national-security program experience.
• Experience with secure interoperability, cross-domain collaboration, or classified mission systems.
• Experience in systems architecture, mission engineering, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture.
• Experience supporting technical exchange meetings, workshops, site visits, readiness reviews, or stakeholder engagements.
• Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, systems development lifecycle, integration, test, and deployment processes.
• Experience with risk management, mission assurance, operational readiness, or transition-to operations planning.
• Experience preparing technical reports, executive briefings, architecture documentation, CONOPS, SOPs, or decision briefs.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, INCOSE, Security+, CISSP, ITIL, TOGAF, SAFe, AWS, or similar credentials.