Cloud Solutions Architect
Booz Allen Hamilton2 days ago
Fayetteville, NC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design adaptable AI architectures supporting multiple model providers, tool ecosystems, modalities, and deployment modes.
- Integrate LLMs, embeddings, RAG pipelines, structured outputs, long-context or memory mechanisms, and evaluation workflows into production systems.
- Develop data pipelines for ingestion, cleaning, chunking, embedding, indexing, and continuous refresh of structured and unstructured data.
- Implement guardrails, safety filters, access controls, monitoring, automated testing, prompt and agent versioning, and safe model rollouts.
- Deploy AI services securely and at scale on AWS or equivalent cloud platforms.
- Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining engineering rigor, debugging discipline, and code quality.
- Collaborate with clients to identify valuable AI opportunities and define solution requirements.
- Present technical solutions, lead workshops and prototyping sessions, and guide stakeholders on responsible AI, ethics, and compliance.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience.
- At least 2 years of professional experience in AI- or ML-focused roles.
- Experience with Python or another object-oriented programming language applied to AI or ML solution development.
- Experience designing and implementing production-grade generative or agentic AI applications.
- Experience with RAG architectures, evaluation methodologies, experimentation workflows, and asynchronous or event-driven programming patterns.
- Knowledge of AI data processing techniques for text, audio, and multimodal data.
- TS/SCI clearance is required, with eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Preferred experience includes MCP, A2A, LangGraph, agent frameworks, interoperability standards, multi-agent patterns, model fine-tuning, prompt tuning, domain adaptation, reinforcement learning from human or AI feedback, evaluation or safety testing frameworks, external tool and enterprise system integrations, and React-based front-end development.
- AWS ML, Data Engineer, or Solutions Architect Certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs.
- The position is not remote and is based in Fayetteville, North Carolina; onsite roles are primarily performed full-time at a customer facility.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).