Senior Director, Solutions Architecture

The role

You will lead the design, deployment, and operation of agentic AI platforms in government environments. You will build and lead a forward deployed engineering organization spanning pre-sales and post-sales. You will serve as the primary technical authority for customers and program offices.

What you will do

• Build and lead Gallatin's forward deployed engineering organization.
• Define the structure, roles, and operating model for pre-sales and post-sales engineers.
• Conceptualize and design end-to-end technical solutions for agentic AI and data platforms.
• Serve as the senior technical point of contact for program offices and mission partners.
• Work directly at or alongside customer sites to deploy and operate AI/ML-enabled software platforms.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business development teams to shape roadmaps and respond to RFPs.
• Navigate and drive security architecture requirements including FedRAMP, IL4/IL5/IL6, Zero Trust, and RMF/ATO.
• Automate workflows and improve the reliability and scalability of deployed systems.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience spanning software/systems engineering, infrastructure, or technical program leadership.
• Proven experience building and leading technical, customer-facing teams.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating platforms in classified or government cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, IL4/IL5/IL6).
• Familiarity with modern AI/ML technologies including LLMs and agentic AI systems.
• Proven ability to engage senior government stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience navigating compliance frameworks: FedRAMP, RMF/ATO, Zero Trust, NIST.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with high stakes and limited playbooks.

Nice to have

• Active security clearance
• TS/SCI
• Military service with a technical or special programs background
• Experience at defense tech companies operating at the civil/military AI frontier
• Experience standing up a forward deployed or solutions engineering function from the ground up at an early-stage company
• Prior experience bridging product, engineering, and government customers
• Familiarity with JADC2, C2 systems, or other defense mission platforms

Benefits

• Base salary
• Generous equity grant
• Full healthcare coverage
• 401k
• Unlimited PTO

Before you apply

• This position may require the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• The successful candidate must be able to work in a classified environment when necessary.
• U.S. citizenship is a requirement for all positions at Gallatin.
• Proof of citizenship will be required prior to employment if selected.

About the company

Gallatin is rebuilding logistics infrastructure for the national security missions of the United States and allied partners. They build AI systems that determine how logistics decisions are made.