External Title Enterprise Capabilities Architect – Cybersecurity

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a Cybersecurity Architect to join the Corporate Growth, Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions team as one of the technical leads behind our most competitive pursuits. You will provide thought leadership and design differentiated service offerings, architectures, and technical strategies for cybersecurity, zero trust, and cyber defense. These provide the people and process elements to the Peraton Labs technology developments.

You will work directly alongside capture teams, growth leaders, sector CTOs, and technical SMEs from early strategic opportunity shaping through proposal submission to build solutions that win contracts and frameworks that make winning repeatable. If you are energized by high‑stakes technical challenges and want to see your work translate directly into contract wins, this role was built for you.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the Peraton Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions Portfolio for cybersecurity, zero trust, and cyber defense from strategy through execution, ensuring every offering is aligned to business priorities, technically sound, and built to compete across all Peraton customer’s market spaces.
• Work directly with capture teams, sector growth leaders, and SMEs to shape Cybersecurity solutions from early opportunity identification through proposal submission.
• Develop technical discriminators, solution narratives, and competitive positioning materials that support capture and proposal efforts across the enterprise, with deep credibility in zero trust architecture, cyber defense, and risk management.
• Design and develop scalable, reusable cybersecurity service offerings, architectures, and technical frameworks that give Peraton’s sector teams a competitive edge on federal pursuits.
• Continuously evolve the portfolio by analyzing capability gaps, technology readiness, and market trends across the federal cybersecurity landscape to identify portfolio enhancements and competitive differentiation opportunities that strengthen Peraton’s position in core markets.
• Provide thought leadership and author white papers and other solution artifacts to support customer engagement efforts highlighting newly developed frameworks and Peraton Labs applicable technologies.
• Partner with sector growth teams, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to translate market opportunities into viable, differentiated service offerings.
• Drive the design and architecture of services across the portfolio. Ensure each service is fully defined with supporting sales assets, cost models, and solution guides that equip sector teams to sell and deliver.
• Present technical strategies, cybersecurity architecture roadmaps, and solution recommendations to customers, capture teams, and executive leadership with the clarity and confidence to drive decisions.
• Engage with key customers, industry partners, and technology vendors to stay ahead of evolving threat landscapes, emerging cyber capabilities, and competitive dynamics in Peraton’s target markets.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, systems engineering, or related field, and 16+ years of industry experience OR 14+ years with a Master’s OR 10+ years with a PhD
• Deep expertise in Zero Trust Architecture design and implementation aligned to CISA and DoD Zero Trust Strategy and reference architecture in a federal environment
• Demonstrated experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST 800-53, including direct involvement in system authorization, continuous monitoring, and compliance activities
• Proven experience designing and implementing Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) solutions including PIV, CAC, and federation standards in federal environments
• Working knowledge of SOC architecture, cyber defense operations, and the tools that power them including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and XDR platforms
• Experience integrating security into software development and delivery pipelines through Dev Sec Ops  practices and secure software development frameworks
• Direct experience supporting federal government customers in a contractor environment, with a…