Responsibilities: 

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for all AI capabilities, including OIGChat, pilot applications, and enterprise AI platform services across Azure Government and Commercial environments

Oversee secure, governed access to Government-approved AI models (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, commercial LLM providers), including model selection, routing architecture, API management, and integration patterns

Lead design, development, and architecture of mission-specific AI applications for investigative analytics, hotline analysis, eDiscovery, and oversight use cases from concept through production

Establish and enforce model governance, cost management, and responsible AI frameworks, including usage monitoring, token consumption tracking, dashboards, thresholds, alerts, and guardrails to prevent unauthorized use, excessive cost, and data leakage

Define and implement AI/ML architecture patterns that ensure all model access consumes governed, authoritative datasets from the enterprise data platform in compliance with data governance, classification, and quality policies

Lead solution architecture and prototyping efforts, providing expert guidance on complex AI problem sets, technical feasibility assessments, and level-of-effort estimates

Coordinate AI workload requirements and scalability planning across infrastructure, data, and application layers to support current and future AI use cases

Lead and coordinate AI engineering and data science resources, including surge support for specialized technical analysis, model development, validation, and production deployment

Support model auditing, explainability, bias detection, and compliance with federal AI requirements and DHS OIG data governance policies

Collaborate with Government leadership, platform engineers, security specialists, and product teams to align AI capabilities with mission priorities, Agile delivery processes, and enterprise architecture standards.

Qualifications:

Required – 

Bachelor's degree + 15 years of experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering, or related field; equivalencies considered (Master's + 12 years; 21 years with no degree; AA + 17 years)

Proven technical leadership experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale AI/ML solutions, with demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams and coordinate cross-functional efforts

Deep expertise in large language models (LLMs), generative AI, Azure OpenAI/Azure AI services, and enterprise AI platforms with understanding of model governance, responsible AI, and production ML operations

Extensive experience designing AI architectures, including RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), model routing, API patterns, guardrails, monitoring, cost optimization, and integration with enterprise data platforms

Strong background in AI/ML frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, TensorFlow, PyTorch), Python development, and cloud-native AI services with ability to provide hands-on technical guidance

Desired –

Experience leading AI initiatives in federal government, law enforcement, investigative, or national security environments with understanding of sensitive data handling, ATO processes, and compliance requirements

Hands-on experience with MLOps, model lifecycle management, AI governance frameworks, and production AI monitoring and observability tools

Background in investigative analytics, fraud detection, text analytics, NLP, or mission-driven AI applications supporting oversight, audit, or law enforcement functions

Pay Range:

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position.

The proposed salary range for this position is: