OCI & Oracle AI Architect — Enterprise Cloud Lead

ExpediteInfoTech, Inc.; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ExpediteInfoTech, Inc. is seeking a senior architect to lead the design and delivery of Oracle Cloud OCI/AI solutions for the Oracle AI Innovation Lab and agency programs across federal, state/local, and defense environments.

This hands-on leadership role requires translating mission and business requirements into secure, scalable architectures, PoVs, and roadmaps from discovery through production, partnering with Oracle SMEs, security teams, and agency stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 12+ years enterprise technology experience with significant cloud, infrastructure, application, and data architecture responsibilities, including recent hands-on AI/GenAI solution delivery.
• Strong Oracle Cloud Infrastructure architecture experience, including networking, IAM, security, database, integration, observability, automation, and high-availability design.
• Working knowledge of OCI AI services and strong Oracle Database / AI Database capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience with LLM applications, RAG, vector search/databases, agentic workflows, APIs, enterprise data integration, and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap, architecture standards, governance gates, delivery, cadence, risks, dependencies, and technical reporting for Oracle AI/OCI Innovation Lab initiatives.
• Serve as the technical lead and bridge among EIT engineering, Oracle AI/OCI specialists, agency stakeholders, security teams, and capture/business-development teams.
• Design end-to-end OCI architectures spanning OCI Generative AI, Oracle AI Database and vector capabilities, RAG, agentic AI, APIs, data pipelines, observability, and enterprise integration.
• Define OCI landing-zone and environment topology standards covering networking, IAM, compartments, encryption, secrets management, logging, high availability, automation, and deployment controls.
• Map agency workload requirements, data sensitivity, security boundaries, and mission needs to appropriate commercial, Government Cloud, Defense Cloud, or private/isolated deployment patterns.
• Develop reusable solution blueprints for secure RAG, agentic workflows, document intelligence, predictive analytics, and cyber/mission analytics.
• Lead architecture workshops, design reviews, technical demonstrations, agency presentations, and architecture/security validation activities.
• Prioritize and guide PoVs using mission value, data readiness, technical feasibility, measurable KPIs, security requirements, and path-to-production criteria.
• Perform capacity and sizing assessments, performance design, architecture reviews, and cost/ROM inputs; partner with Oracle SMEs to validate product capabilities and deployment options.
• Convert successful PoCs/PoVs into pilot and production architectures, including security, integration, operations, implementation sequencing, architecture decisions, standards, and deployment runbooks.
• Establish reusable architecture, design, testing, demonstration, and documentation templates to accelerate delivery and reduce redesign.

Skills

Cloud architecture

OCI architecture

LLM / GenAI experience

Leadership experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI, IS, Cybersecurity

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

OCI services

Security tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

ExpediteInfoTech, Inc. is seeking a senior architect to lead the design and delivery of Oracle Cloud OCI/AI solutions for the Oracle AI Innovation Lab and agency programs across federal, state/local, and defense environments.

This hands-on leadership role requires translating mission and business requirements into secure, scalable architectures, PoVs, and roadmaps from discovery through production, partnering with Oracle SMEs, security teams, and agency stakeholders.