Open Position

Senior Cloud Solutions Lead SME

Kaptivate is looking for an individual contractor to provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) support for one of our federal client agencies. This is a full-time position (remote or on-site) in the Washington, DC area focused on advancing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments and AI-enabled capabilities to deliver the following tasks:

1. Provide technical consultation, analysis, and recommendations to senior management and technical project teams regarding GCP environments, data strategy and cybersecurity compliance.

2. Develop, build, and document technical solutions to complex organizational, management, and business challenges.

3. Conduct research and prepare complex data mapping and products, business documents, briefings, and strategic plans.
   

4. Lead organizational assessments and align structures, processes, and performance measurement tools to agency goals.
   

5. Support the design, implementation, and operationalization of AI-enabled capabilities, automation, and intelligent decision-support solutions that integrate structured and unstructured data sources within GCP.

6. Support the transition of technical solutions into approved scalable cloud platforms, including alignment with security, governance, and operational standards.

7. Deliver technology transition training, education, and change enablement activities to support workforce adoption of AI-enabled and cloud-based solutions.

8. Define and advise on program performance, evaluation metrics, and continuous improvement strategies for cloud and AI initiatives.

9. Serve as a senior technical advisor for high-visibility initiatives impacting mission-critical programs involving workflow modernization.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree or Doctorate in a relevant field.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of specialized technical management experience in GCPenvironments and workflow modernization.
• Experience implementing, operationalizing and supporting the adoption of AI-enabled solutions integrated with enterprise data assets.
• Previous related experience supporting federal, state, or other public-sector organizations, or similarly regulated environments.
• Proven expertise in direct, hands-on technical implementation, including the design, build, release to production and documentation of operational systems.
• Deep expertise and previous relevant projects delivered in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Must be eligible to work in the United States and able to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust Clearance.

Role duration: Through September 30, 2026 (subject to contract extension).

Published on 3/2/2026