Cloud Architecture Leadership: Direct the design, governance, and continuous improvement of SteerBridges cloud architecture across all program environments, ensuring consistent standards for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency. 

Security Compliance & Risk Management: Own the security compliance posture of SteerBridges infrastructure, including RMF/ATO packages, continuous monitoring, and remediation of findings across all programs and corporate systems. 

Corporate Network & IT Operations: Lead corporate network architecture and operations, including connectivity, segmentation, identity and access management, and endpoint protection for SteerBridges internal IT environment. 

Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a credible representative of SteerBridges technical posture to government authorizing officials, auditors, and executive leadership, translating infrastructure and security decisions into mission and business risk terms. 

Governance & Standards: Chair or participate in Architecture Review Boards and the Technical Risk Committee, ensuring infrastructure and security decisions across AICES, AIRES, SteerFi, and corporate IT remain aligned and auditable. 

Program & People Leadership: Guide and mentor infrastructure, network, and security engineers; build career pathing and technical growth plans in partnership with SteerBridges Career Ladder framework. 

Vendor & Tooling Strategy: Evaluate and manage the vendor and tooling landscape for cloud, network, and security operations, ensuring cost-effective and compliant solutions across the company. 

Cross-Program Coordination: Collaborate with program technical leads to identify, capture, and prioritize infrastructure and security requirements ahead of delivery milestones. 

Delivery Management: Coordinate planning, sprint execution, and release management for infrastructure and security initiatives, and report progress, risks, and dependencies to executive leadership.