Cloud Solutions Architect
Booz Allen Hamilton3 days ago
Fayetteville, NC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design adaptable AI architectures supporting multiple model providers, tools, modalities, and deployment modes.
- Build production-ready AI applications integrating LLMs, embeddings, RAG pipelines, structured outputs, memory, and long-context mechanisms.
- Develop data pipelines for ingestion, cleaning, chunking, embedding, indexing, and continuous data refresh.
- 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.
- Collaborate with clients to identify high-value 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 and 2 years of professional AI or ML-focused experience.
- Experience using Python or another object-oriented programming language for 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 for text, audio, and multimodal data.
- TS/SCI clearance is required, with eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with MCP, A2A, LangGraph or equivalent agent frameworks; model fine-tuning, prompt tuning, domain adaptation, or reinforcement learning from human or AI feedback; AI evaluation or safety testing frameworks; external tool and API integrations; React and modern front-end workflows; or AWS ML, Data Engineer, or Solutions Architect certification.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, retirement, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life, and dependent-care benefits are offered.
- Recognition awards and total well-being programs are available.
- Full-time and part-time employees regularly working at least 20 hours per week may participate in Booz Allen benefit programs; employees below that threshold receive select offerings excluding health benefits.
- Work-model logistics vary by posting: remote roles may require occasional work at Booz Allen or customer facilities, hybrid roles require facility work according to leadership and role needs, and onsite roles are primarily performed at a customer facility.
- The posting is scheduled to close within 90 days of the posting date.
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).