Security-Cleared Senior AI/ML Data Platform Architect

Omniscius Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Omniscius Consulting seeks a Senior AI/ML Data Engineer to lead the data architecture powering vector search, RAG, and LLM applications for DoD and Intelligence Community clients. This leader will collaborate across infrastructure, cybersecurity, software engineering, and mission stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure AI solutions and articulate tradeoffs to senior leadership.

The role requires mentoring engineers, establishing data governance, and driving innovation across enterprise

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph clearance is mandatory.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline (equivalent experience considered).
• 20+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, data engineering, distributed systems, cloud architecture, or AI/ML platform development.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale AI, machine learning, generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions.
• Demonstrated success architecting and implementing production cloud-native data systems supporting advanced analytics and AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain enterprise-scale data platforms supporting vector databases, semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI systems, and large language model applications
• Establish and implement controls for data quality, lineage, source attribution, prompt and context traceability, explainability, and evaluation of AI system outputs
• Lead architectural decision-making for AI-supporting data infrastructure, balancing performance, scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost
• Partner with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Architects, Cybersecurity teams, and Software Engineers to translate AI requirements into production-grade capabilities
• Translate highly technical AI, machine learning, and data architecture concepts into clear operational impacts, risks, opportunities, and implementation considerations for senior leadership
• Coordinate with stakeholders across multiple organizations to align AI initiatives, maximize reuse of enterprise capabilities, and eliminate duplication of effort
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of AI-supporting data platforms
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while promoting engineering best practices and innovation across the organization
• Assess emerging AI technologies, vector database platforms, retrieval frameworks, and engineering approaches to improve organizational AI capabilities

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Architectural thinking

Senior stakeholder management

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or related quantitative discipline

Tools

Python

SQL

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Vector databases

RAG

Job description

Omniscius Consulting seeks a Senior AI/ML Data Engineer to lead the data architecture powering vector search, RAG, and LLM applications for DoD and Intelligence Community clients. This leader will collaborate across infrastructure, cybersecurity, software engineering, and mission stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure AI solutions and articulate tradeoffs to senior leadership.

The role requires mentoring engineers, establishing data governance, and driving innovation across enterprise