Core4ce is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our team supporting the CDAO effort which is responsible for the acceleration of the DoD's adoption of data, analytics, and AI to generate decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. The CDAO is the lead for all AI work within the DoD. 

Responsibilities

·         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

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

       Active TS (SCI Eligibility) Required

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.