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Job Summary:
Agile Defense is a company focused on delivering IT strategy and support services for national security missions. They are seeking a Principal Data Scientist/Architect to lead the design and deployment of secure data architectures and AI/ML pipelines, collaborating with various stakeholders to optimize data utilization for national defense.
Responsibilities:
• Architect secure, scalable, and cloud-native solutions across AI, data, and analytics platforms.
• Lead the design and development of data architectures that support AI/ML operations in production environments.
• Oversee development and deployment of data ingestion pipelines and feature engineering workflows using tools like Databricks and Spark.
• Define standards for data cataloging, lineage, compliance, and continuity across DoD-hosted environments.
• Ensure system interoperability, availability, and integration across enterprise platforms (e.g., Apogee, Cliq, Tableau).
• Create detailed architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and deployment playbooks to support system integration.
• Guide the full lifecycle of AI initiatives from scoping and prototyping to operational deployment and monitoring.
• Configure, deploy, and troubleshoot RESTful APIs across distributed systems and data environments.
• Implement automation for system deployment, monitoring, backup, and recovery using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Tune platform performance and drive continuous optimization of operations in environments such as EC2 and Databricks.
• Support continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and observability for system health and availability.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and model versioning using DevSecOps best practices.
• Apply reproducible workflows for unit testing, source control, and model retraining, ensuring models remain current and auditable.
• Support ingestion of multimodal data sources, including sensor data, text, geospatial, and time series data.
• Serve as the primary technical mentor for a cross-functional team of data scientists, engineers, and analysts.
• Conduct regular reviews of modeling approaches, infrastructure decisions, and integration plans.
• Define and communicate architecture strategy, standards, and best practices across delivery teams.
• Support onboarding and skills development through internal knowledge-sharing and paired problem-solving.
• Work directly with ADA/IR stakeholders to understand decision workflows and operational data gaps.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement to prioritize model objectives and interpretability requirements.
• Ensure seamless interoperability across legacy systems, mission platforms, and new technologies like Avana and Palantir.
• Partner with product managers and system engineers to ensure AI solutions are technically feasible, ethically responsible, and aligned with mission goals.
• Produce clear technical documentation, failover strategies, and model performance summaries for leadership audiences.
• Contribute to the growth of Agile Defense's data science practice by developing public-facing demonstrations, templates, and reusable components.
• Collaborate with BD and capture teams to define technical strategies for future AI/ML engagements.
• Contribute to Agile Defense Communities of Practice and external conferences by sharing novel use cases and lessons learned.
• Contribute to open-source or federated data science efforts where aligned with security and mission constraints.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 6 years of experience with data analytics, data engineering, statistical analysis, or artificial intelligence and machine learning
• 6 years of experience with major data science languages, including Python and R
• 6 years of experience retrieving, merging, and analyzing structured and unstructured data sources from APIs and databases, including through R, Python, or SQL
• 2 years of experience developing and documenting organizational standards for Data Storage, Data Transformation, and Metadata Management
• Experience with ETL processing
• Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, information systems, engineering or other related technical discipline.
Preferred:
• 2 years of experience working with Palantir Foundry
• 2 years of experience working with Advana
Company:
Agile Defense is an information technology company located in Reston. It is a sub-organization of Agile-BOT. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, with a team of employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
Salary : $125,000 - $175,000
