MNHR CDO Architect

Gov Solutions Group (GovSG) is seeking a senior MNHR CDO Architect to support a U.S. Navy client in advancing data, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and emerging technology initiatives. This highly experienced, client‑facing architect will serve as a trusted advisor to government leadership and project teams—helping stakeholders understand technology options, identify capability gaps, set priorities, and translate mission needs into actionable strategies and solutions.

The MNHR CDO Architect will operate at both strategic and execution levels. Responsibilities include advising senior decision‑makers, leading and facilitating customer discussions, shaping technical approaches, coordinating delivery efforts, and producing technical analyses, requirements, architecture artifacts, white papers, presentations, and other supporting materials.

The ideal candidate brings a strong technical foundation combined with senior‑level consulting, communication, and relationship‑building skills. The role requires confidence engaging with senior uniformed and civilian stakeholders, building trust quickly, navigating ambiguous or evolving requirements, and identifying opportunities where additional technology or advisory support may enhance mission outcomes.

This is a senior advisory and client‑facing role—not a deeply specialized engineering position. The successful candidate should be technically credible across modern data and technology landscapes without needing to be a deep specialist in every domain. The ability to understand technology, ask informed questions, assess tradeoffs, and translate technical concepts into mission‑focused recommendations is essential.

This is a hybrid position, requiring on‑site support three days per week in Arlington, VA.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide technology consulting and strategic advisory support to senior customer stakeholders on data, AI/ML, digital transformation, enterprise architecture, and emerging technologies.
• Build and maintain trusted working relationships with senior military, civilian, and technical stakeholders, serving as a credible advisor and primary point of contact for technology and transformation initiatives.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices, assessing applicability to customer mission needs.
• Analyze current-state technology, data, and business processes to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Develop future-state technology concepts, capability assessments, strategic roadmaps, solution approaches, and implementation recommendations in collaboration with customer and technical teams.
• Support data and AI initiatives, including data integration, data platforms, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, automation, and digital twin capabilities.
• Evaluate data architecture, interoperability, governance, security, privacy, data quality, and access considerations.
• Translate business and mission requirements into clear technology strategies, priorities, requirements, and solution approaches.
• Facilitate customer working sessions and discussions to clarify problems, evaluate options, establish priorities, and enable informed decision-making.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, engineers, data specialists, program managers, and SMEs to develop and validate solutions.
• Develop technical documentation, white papers, concept papers, executive briefings, presentations, process flows, requirements, and other customer deliverables.
• Conduct working sessions, stakeholder meetings, technical discussions, and executive briefings.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical, operational, managerial, and executive audiences.
• Coordinate with delivery teams to translate advisory recommendations into executable activities, milestones, and outcomes.
• Support project planning, task management, coordination, and delivery activities.
• Support prototypes, proofs of concept, demonstrations, or technical experiments to validate recommendations and inform customer decisions.
• Identify emerging customer needs and opportunities where additional capabilities, services, or expertise could improve mission outcomes; partner with GovSG leadership to shape follow‑on work and new initiatives.
• Maintain awareness of evolving customer priorities, organizational direction, and emerging technology opportunities.
• Perform technical analysis, research, documentation, and consulting activities required to support customer objectives.
• Build strong customer relationships and identify opportunities through trusted advisory engagement rather than transactional interactions.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business, data science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise architecture, data strategy, digital transformation, or related areas.
• Proven ability to independently advise senior stakeholders and lead customer-facing technology initiatives.
• Strong consulting, communication, and relationship‑building skills with senior military, civilian, and technical stakeholders.
• Broad understanding of modern data and technology environments, including data platforms, cloud, AI/ML, analytics, interoperability, automation, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience developing technical strategies, roadmaps, architectures, and solution approaches.
• Ability to conduct technical research and deliver clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong documentation and communication skills, including creating white papers, presentations, and executive materials.
• Skilled in facilitating stakeholder discussions, working sessions, and decision‑support activities.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities.
• Knowledge of privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, and responsible AI.
• Strong project and delivery management skills; able to coordinate priorities and stakeholders in dynamic environments.
• Ability to collaborate across technical and non‑technical teams and work independently with minimal direction.
• Able to understand technical concepts deeply enough to challenge assumptions, evaluate tradeoffs, and guide decisions.
• Willingness to contribute directly to analysis, strategy, and deliverables while leveraging specialized experts as needed.
• Ability to work onsite in Arlington, VA three days per week.
• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• Master’s degree and/or relevant certifications (PMP, PMI‑ACP, Scrum) required.
• Experience with DoD or U.S. Navy organizations; experience supporting CDO, CIO, or enterprise technology functions.
• Experience with AWS/GovCloud, Databricks, Palantir Foundry, Kubernetes, and emerging technology platforms.
• Experience with digital twins, modeling and simulation, and industry frameworks (DMBOK, DCAM, CDMC, TOGAF).
• Experience with AI governance, model risk, explainability, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps and implementing emerging technology capabilities.
• Experience working directly with senior government stakeholders.
• Experience identifying and shaping new or follow‑on technology initiatives.
• Experience within professional services, consulting, systems integration, or federal contracting environments.
• Salary: $120,000 - $150,000. Actual compensation offered to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level.

Why You’ll Want to Work at GovSG

Competitive pay and benefits, including PTO and company matched 401k

Development opportunities through comprehensive training suite

Ability to make an impact supporting the warfighter

Opportunities to engage with the community through volunteering

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

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