Responsibilities
Noblis is looking for an AI Solutions Architect (Lead) IV to support our customer in Chantilly, VA.
In this role, you will design and oversee end-to-end enterprise AI architectures - translating business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready systems. You'll lead the technical design and implementation of agentic AI systems that orchestrate user queries across diverse data sources. Working closely with development, DevOps, and data engineering teams, you'll take AI architectures from prototype to production.
Key Responsibilities - Define overall system architecture, solution patterns, standards, and reference architectures for enterprise AI systems - selecting and governing the right technologies to ensure scalability, security, and production readiness.
- Lead platform and model integration across cloud services (Azure, AWS, or GCP), APIs, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, embeddings, vector search, memory, and reasoning workflows.
- Architect multi-step, agentic workflows involving retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool-calling, multi-agent orchestration, and automated reasoning loops across heterogeneous data sources.
- Design and deploy large language model-based systems, including prompt strategy management, model evaluation, and system traceability and reliability mechanisms.
- Guide engineering and data teams through delivery from prototype to production, translating requirements into extensible AI architectures and ensuring cross-functional alignment.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend optimal technology stacks, balancing innovation with enterprise stability and governance requirements.
- Ensure system scalability, security, and governance by applying responsible AI principles and enterprise security frameworks throughout the architecture lifecycle.
- Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and technical strategies to executives and technical stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- US Citizenship is required
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and ability to obtain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
- Bachelors or Masters degree with 10+ years of progressive experience.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating AI systems, including agentic systems, with a proven track record delivering production-grade AI architectures.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in AI and/or data engineering, including data pipelines, distributed systems, and microservice architectures.
- Deep expertise in Python, agent frameworks, API design, backend engineering, vector databases, SQL engines, and cloud services.
- Demonstrated experience designing and deploying LLM-based systems, including RAG, tool-calling, and multi-agent patterns, with proven ability to evaluate models, manage prompt strategies, and design systems for traceability and reliability.
- Strong understanding of modern AI architectures including embeddings, vector search, orchestration layers, memory, and reasoning workflows.
- Working knowledge of DevOps tools and principles
Desired Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI CI Polygraph
- Masters or PhD degree.
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Overview
OverviewNoblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, take on some of the nation's toughest challenges, delivering advanced solutions to our customers' most critical missions. We bring together leading scientific, engineering, and management expertise in a culture grounded in objectivity and collaboration, ensuring our work creates lasting impact across federal missions.
We work with a broad range of government agencies in the defense, intelligence, and federal civilian sectors. Learn more and find opportunities at careers.noblis.org
Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.
Total Rewards
At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.
Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis' total compensation package.
Posted Salary Range
USD $132,900.00 - USD $207,750.00 /Yr.
