Principal Solution Architect, AI & Data/Splunk

Iron Bow Technologies is for people who believe trust is paramount , transformation is embraced , and the future is here , because "What we do matters !" We are a next generation solutions provider, delivering mission success across government, healthcare, and commercial industries. Iron Bow relies on our passionate people , long standing partnerships , and strategic thinking to solve your most critical challenges. Whether we team with clients, colleagues, or partners, we put each other first. It’s The Iron Bow Way. THE OPPORTUNITY Iron Bow is seeking Principal Solution Architects with deep Splunk expertise to join the CTO office's AI & Data practice. This role provides technical leadership and pre-sales support for solutions built around Splunk, with emphasis on Security, Observability, and the use of operational data to drive better visibility, insights, automation, and decision-making. The architect will help customers unlock value from machine data and telemetry across their environments, integrating Splunk with Cisco technologies and the customer's broader security, networking, cloud, infrastructure, data, and automation ecosystem. Key technologies include Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise Security and SOAR, Splunk Observability Cloud, AppDynamics, IT Service Intelligence, the Cisco Data Fabric, and Iron Bow's strategic partner technologies and services. HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT • Research and evaluate Splunk, Cisco, and adjacent security, observability, and data technologies that address customer mission and business requirements • Build relationships with Splunk and Cisco account, architecture, and product teams, as well as strategic partners across security, networking, cloud, and data • Lead customer discovery, assessments, architecture, and solution development for SIEM modernization, SOC transformation, observability, AIOps, and machine data strategy • Architect Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform deployments, including hybrid designs, indexer and search head clustering, multisite resiliency, capacity sizing, data retention and tiering, and federated search across cloud storage and data platforms • Design data onboarding and pipeline strategies covering source prioritization, forwarder and OpenTelemetry collection, edge and ingest processing, normalization to CIM and OCSF, data quality, and cost control • Architect security operations solutions on Splunk Enterprise Security, including risk-based alerting, detection engineering, threat intelligence, UEBA, SOAR playbooks, case management, and integration with Cisco XDR, Cisco Secure Firewall, Talos, and third-party security tools • Design observability solutions spanning Splunk Observability Cloud, AppDynamics, IT Service Intelligence, and ThousandEyes, connecting infrastructure, application, network, and digital experience telemetry to service health and mission or business impact • Apply Splunk and Cisco AI capabilities, including Splunk AI Assistant, the AI Toolkit, Model Context Protocol integrations, agentic workflows, and the Cisco Data Fabric, to anomaly detection, forecasting, triage, and automation with appropriate governance and human oversight • Architect Splunk for government and regulated environments, including FedRAMP and DoD Impact Level 5 cloud offerings, on-premises and air-gapped deployments for classified networks, and use cases supporting RMF, continuous monitoring, Zero Trust, and CMMC • Develop migration and modernization plans for customers moving from legacy SIEM, logging, or monitoring tools, or from Splunk Enterprise to Splunk Cloud Platform, covering content conversion, parallel operations, cutover, rollback, and operational handoff • Provide pre-sales support for Splunk, security, observabi