Mid-Level Systems Architect (Solutions Architect)

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Mid-Level Systems Architect (Solutions Architect) to support our DC-area offices of the Chief Digital and AI Office in Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, and Arlington locations.

Duties Include:

• Develop a generalized tool to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data

• Participate in DoD and government AI/ML Task Forces, connect with others in DoD working on similar capabilities, and share best practices with an LLM community of practice

• Extend a generalized API deployed to NIPR to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data and enable others across the Department to use the API within the paradigm of CDAO / Advana 1.2's self-service model

• Support the installation of the capability on other networks at different classification levels, including SIPRnet and JWICS

• Includes a set of swappable containers with different functions that provide inputs and outputs through an API.

• Develop methodology to test how Search performance (with varying levels of prompt engineering)

• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data

• Develop a cost model for semantic search API use cases

• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data

• Develop and document a strategy and implementation plan to ingest and consistently store unstructured data on the Advana platform, following the Bronze/Silver/Gold table paradigm (i.e. raw files in bronze, parsed/transformed data in silver, cleaned, processed and data available for query in gold)

• Develop an approach to address issues arising from maintaining semantic indices associated with document change management and version control for unstructured data, such as when a new manual comes out to replace a previous version

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.

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.
• Travel: <10 %
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility upon hire, and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.

Education Requirements:

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

People First. Technology Always.

PeopleTec, Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville, AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.

Culture: The name "PeopleTec" was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our company's foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere, we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.

Career: At PeopleTec, we value your long-term goals. Whether it's through our continuing-education opportunities, our robust training programs, or our "People First" benefits package, PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.

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EEO Statement

PeopleTec, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following email address, applicationhelp@peopletec.com and/or phone number (256.319.3800) to contact us about your interest in employment with PeopleTec, Inc.

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