Senior AI Platform Architect — Remote Govt Projects

TCG; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

401K match

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Financial planning services

Student loan repayment assistance

Training budget

Job summary

TCG seeks an AI Platform Architect for a high-visibility government program. The role requires US citizenship and an active Federal Security Clearance (Secret or Top Secret).

The position is primarily remote with occasional onsite meetings in Washington, DC, and the candidate should live within commuting distance of DC. Responsibilities include designing and deploying AI/ML solutions, building LLM/GAN tech, and guiding data architecture and governance across middleware, APIs, and storage.

Qualifications

• At least 15 years of IT experience including architecture.
• Experience developing Generative AI and Large Language Model applications.
• Experience with API/Security Architecture.
• Experience deploying AI applications in AWS GovCloud/Azure Government.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Scripting with Python and Java.
• Experience with FedRAMP/FISMA.
• Strong Agile/SCRUM knowledge and documentation.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work with diverse teams in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML solutions for mission-critical government applications.
• Build and optimize LLM and Generative AI applications.
• Owns target architecture and technical decisions across Postgres/storage, agentic runtime, inference gateway, APIs, identity, observability and hosting portability.
• Schedule and communicate status and expectations with stakeholders
• Manage the integration project and communications plans
• Enterprise data assessment of the as-is architecture and recommendation of to-be data architecture
• Comprehensive enterprise data analysis to include data alignment to applications and technologies
• Gap analysis for any architectural inconsistencies and broken components
• Recommend AI data governance, architecture, security, data tools, migration strategy, and data lifecycle management
• Establish and implement an integration project plan including data migration strategies and risk analysis
• Support the Federal Product Owner in backlog prioritization and roadmap development
• Conduct discovery and user requirements-gathering sessions with end-users
• Act as liaison between customer, stakeholders, Delivery/Program Manager and development team

Skills

Generative AI

LLM development

API/Security architecture

AWS GovCloud

PostgreSQL

Python

Java

FedRAMP/FISMA

Agile/SCRUM

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science

Job description

TCG seeks an AI Platform Architect for a high-visibility government program. The role requires US citizenship and an active Federal Security Clearance (Secret or Top Secret).

The position is primarily remote with occasional onsite meetings in Washington, DC, and the candidate should live within commuting distance of DC. Responsibilities include designing and deploying AI/ML solutions, building LLM/GAN tech, and guiding data architecture and governance across middleware, APIs, and storage.