Collaboration Principal (Microsoft and Google Workspace)
Washington, DC · HybridJob$140–180K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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SAIC seeks a Collaboration Principal to provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for operational work and enterprise strategic initiatives. The role leads two teams responsible for the strategy, design, implementation, and maintenance of DOT’s Google Workspace and Microsoft infrastructure, while coordinating with stakeholders, agency leadership, vendors, and infrastructure teams. The position is hybrid, with two onsite days per week and the possibility of five onsite days going forward.
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Description
SAIC is currently seeking a Collaboration Principal (Microsoft and Google Workspace). This positon will provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for planning and completing operational tasks, as well as tasks aligned to strategic initiatives across the enterprise.
Shift: Hybrid - Onsite 2 days a week; could possibly be 5 days onsite a week going forward
Overview of Responsibilities:
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Lead 2 teams in the strategy, design, implementation, and maintenance of DOT’s Google Workspace and Microsoft infrastructure.
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Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and define the scope of projects.
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Develop and implement solutions that meet the needs of the DOT mission.
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Stay up-to-date on the latest computing technologies and trends.
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Mentor and develop engineers to ensure the team is well-equipped to meet DOT’s needs.
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Communicating status with agency senior leadership.
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Collaborate with other infrastructure teams to realize operational efficiencies within the agency cloud offering. This includes working with vendors to identify potential approaches and rationalizing solutions that are best fit for agency environment.
Qualifications
Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:
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15+ years of experience within information technology architecting and implementing solutions (solutions cover initiatives such as deployment of business applications, deployment of enterprise tools, etc.)
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10+ years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in Microsoft Exchange, Google Workspace (GWS), cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
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Must possess a bachelor’s degree. Degree may be substituted with 6 additional years of related experience.
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Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting compute, network, storage, and their application within the cloud (AWS, GWS and/or Azure).
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Demonstrated understanding of application architectures (web tier, application tier, database tier) and their implementation in the cloud.
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Deep understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices for sustaining an enterprise cloud environment.
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Demonstrated understanding of security best practices and their application as they relate to cloud-based environments and workloads (access management, monitoring, configuration management, etc.).
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Understanding of DevSecOps pipelines and toolsets and how they can work to create an enterprise shared service.
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Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles and practices with the ability to identify, rationalize, and solution opportunities for improvement.
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Ability to prioritize, balance, and direct team member activities between ad-hoc tasking and planned initiatives.
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Experience in developing, planning, and implementing strategic initiatives within a roadmap.
Desired skills:
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ITIL v3/v4 certification
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Demonstrated experience leading a team
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Familiarity with agile planning methodologies
Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust.
Target salary range: $140,001 - $180,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618672
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 2,809 open Cloud Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$140–180K/yr
- Washington, D.C. median$147–215K/yr53 salary ranges
- US median$147–239K/yr2,526 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $160K, is 11% below the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($180K) — in the middle half of Cloud Architect salary ranges in Washington, D.C..
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- Olive Jobs lists 68 open Cloud Architect jobs in Washington, D.C. and 2,809 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Education
- 836 of the 2,809 open Cloud Architect jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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