Lead Cloud Architect at iCallidus
Columbia, MD
$140,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Columbia, MD
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior architecture role focused on designing and implementing cloud solutions for government clients, covering both cloud and on-premises system integration. The work involves leading migrations, producing technical documentation, and ensuring compliance with FedRAMP standards and Zero Trust principles. It suits an experienced cloud architect with a background in OpenShift, AWS, and Azure who can obtain a federal security clearance.
Senior level · 7+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'Lead Cloud Architect' — 'Lead' here reads as a seniority modifier in the title, which maps to advertised Senior or above; however, the actual scope (client-site delivery, 7-year minimum, no explicit org-wide authority) supports Senior rather than Staff or Principal.
The clearance requirement is an MBI (Moderate Background Investigation), which is a federal suitability/public-trust determination rather than a formal DoD security clearance tier (Confidential/Secret/TS). The closest available mapping is 'Secret' as a conservative approximation, but this is a judgement call — MBI is not a DoD clearance.
The 7-year minimum experience requirement is stated collectively across OpenShift, AWS, Azure, FedRAMP, and ATO — it is a role-level gate, not per-technology, so it is captured in the overall years minimum.
Cloud certification is required to be active at contract award and maintained throughout performance, but no specific certification product is named, so it is not emitted as a named skill.
Zero Trust Architecture appears in the Requirements section and is treated as a hard gate despite being a methodology, because it is explicitly named as a required experience item.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Zero Trust Architecture.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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