Job Description:
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
About Elder Research, Inc
People Centered. Data Driven
Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business almost 30 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.
Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.
Elder Research believes in continuous learning and community - each week the entire company attends a Tech Talk and each office location provides lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others and enjoy their lives.
Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Elder Research is a Government contractor and many of our positions require US Citizenship.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/protected veterans
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