Senior Director, Solutions Architecture

At Gallatin, we are rebuilding logistics infrastructure for the national security missions of the United States and allied partners. We build AI systems that determine how logistics decisions are made, not just how they're executed. From factory to foxhole, we operate at the layer where data becomes decisions, and decisions make the advantage.

We’re hiring a Sr. Director, Solutions Architecture to lead the design, deployment, and operation of agentic AI platforms in high-stakes, mission-critical government environments, and to build the team that delivers them. This forward-deployed, customer-facing leadership role sits where modern AI technology meets national security. It’s ideal for someone who has moved fluidly between the operational military world and the commercial defense tech industry.

You’ll be the primary technical authority for customers and program offices, translating complex mission requirements into secure, scalable architectures and then rolling up your sleeves to make sure they get built and delivered. You’re as comfortable in a briefing room with senior government stakeholders as you are in a terminal troubleshooting a production system.

You’ll also design and build Gallatin’s forward deployed engineering structure across pre-sales and post-sales. You’ll lead pre-sales engineers who shape solutions and help win work, as well as post-sales forward deployed engineers who deploy, operate, and scale those solutions at customer sites. You’ll define how the team is organized, how work moves from pursuit to delivery, and how the function scales as our customer base grows.

Build and lead Gallatin’s forward deployed engineering organization, spanning pre-sales engineers and post-sales forward deployed engineers. Define the structure, roles, and operating model from the first customer conversation through production. Hire and develop engineers who earn trust in the field and deliver under pressure, and hold the team to a high bar.

Conceptualize and design end-to-end technical solutions for customer-facing agentic AI and data platforms tailored to government mission requirements, including classified and austere network environments.

Serve as the senior technical point of contact for program offices and mission partners, building credibility and trust through deep technical competence and operational understanding. Map the end-user experience to our software and hardware solutions and be the critical technical translator between customer and our engineering & product teams.

Work directly at or alongside customer sites, and lead the engineers who do the same, to deploy, operate, and continuously improve AI/ML-enabled software platforms, owning outcomes from initial design through production.

Partner with product, engineering, and business development teams to shape roadmaps, respond to RFPs, and ensure delivered solutions align with both mission needs and company strategy.

Navigate and drive security architecture requirements including FedRAMP, IL4/IL5/IL6, Zero Trust frameworks, and RMF/ATO processes.

Find opportunities to reduce manual operations, automate workflows, and improve the reliability and scalability of deployed systems to deliver the best possible customer experience.

• Active security clearance preferred; TS/SCI a plus.

• 10+ years of experience spanning software/systems engineering, infrastructure, or technical program leadership, ideally with a mix of military, government, and commercial defense tech.

• Proven experience building and leading technical,…