Senior AI Architect: Enterprise Gen‑AI & Secure Cloud

Bart & Associates, Inc.; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Training and certifications

Pet insurance

Job summary

Bart & Associates, Inc. is hiring a Senior AI Systems Architect to drive design of enterprise AI ecosystems for a federal government contract. The role spans AI engineering, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, and mission operations to deliver scalable, governable AI solutions.

You will advise leadership, collaborate with scientists and cybersecurity teams, and transition AI capabilities into production. The position emphasizes secure, scalable AI environments across AWS, Google Cloud, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise architecture, AI/ML engineering, cloud modernization, or advanced analytics solutions.
• 5+ years designing AI/ML or Gen-AI solutions in enterprise or federal environments.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT Management or Engineering is required.
• MBA/Master's Degree in a relevant field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead architect for AI and Gen-AI initiatives ensuring mission requirements are met.
• Design and operationalize enterprise AI architectures enabling AI-as-a-Service across client apps.
• Develop reusable AI frameworks, shared services, and reference architectures.
• Architect multimodal AI solutions including text, image, video, and structured data analyses.
• Define enterprise AI integration patterns for cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices architectures.
• Lead deployment of AI/ML and Gen-AI solutions including RAG, agentic AI, LLM orchestration, CV, NLP, and semantic retrieval.

Skills

Generative AI

LLM architectures

RAG frameworks

MLOps

NLP

Education

Bachelors in CS/IT/Engineering

MBA/Masters preferred

Tools

AWS SageMaker

Vertex AI

Databricks

Kafka/MSK

Job description

Bart & Associates, Inc. is hiring a Senior AI Systems Architect to drive design of enterprise AI ecosystems for a federal government contract. The role spans AI engineering, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, and mission operations to deliver scalable, governable AI solutions.

You will advise leadership, collaborate with scientists and cybersecurity teams, and transition AI capabilities into production. The position emphasizes secure, scalable AI environments across AWS, Google Cloud, and