Job Title: Systems Architect
Location: Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, or Arlington
Workplace: Hybrid (must be able to commute to one of the above offices 2-3 times per week)
Clearance Required: must have an active Top-Secret (TS) clearance (must be able to achieve a TS/SCI clearance with scope)

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Supports the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer’s (CDAO) Mission Analytics / Core Analytics Products, Search Products Portfolio, and Unstructured Data Search Enhanced by AI/ML (UD/SEAM).

Major Duties/Tasks:

• Analyze and assess software development and data processing requirements and

determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.

• Develop an understanding the technical requirements, aligning them to business goals,

and then translating them into architectures capable of handling complex search queries

across collections of large datasets, utilizing the Advana platform

• Support and work with a hybrid team of analyst, engineers, and developers to conduct

research, and build and deploy complex, but easy-to-use search tools, analytical

capabilities and/or devise a plan for development.

• Works with data scientists, UX designers, developers, and testers to compose cohesive

and sound designs that form the basis of scalable solutions.

• Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets

and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance
metrics

REQUIREMENTS:

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5-7 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 3 years of

experience.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Significant experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R, Proficient

in one or more big data programming languages, such as Python, Scala, or Java

• Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are

allocated across systems components/sub-components.

• Experience with Elasticsearch and related indexing technologies
• AI/ML model development, containerization, and productization experience
• Familiarity with natural language processing, the use of Large Language Models, and the

use of both containerized and Apache Spark based computing environments (e.g.

Databricks) for the processing of unstructured text data.

• Knowledge Graph construction and reasoning experience, to include experience with

property graph model frameworks and Neo4J.

• Experience with cloud based computing environments such as AWS or GCS, especially

experience with GovCloud, C2S, SC2S, UC2S and follow-on government cloud compute

environments.

• Experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers,

demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.

• Experience with cyber security compliance, secure software development

methodologies and the process for obtaining authority to operate (ATO) on defense and

intelligence community networks.

• Experience leveraging existing COTS/GOTS/OS tools in unconventional manners.
• Experience with multi-intelligence and multi-domain systems and understanding

of current object and activity-based models in the community.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• An active TS/SCI clearance

Experience with:

• the DoD’s CDAO, Advana, or other CDAO products
• Agile methodology
• AI-enhanced search
• AI/ML for information retrieval and insight extraction

• Analyze and assess software development and data processing requirements an