Mid Level Systems Architect - CDAO

About the company:  At VivSoft, we aim to solve complex federal problems using emerging and open technologies in a collaborative and rewarding environment. VivSoft is a diverse team of strategists, engineers, designers, and creators experienced in building high performance effective softwares, with impactful organizational design and organizational dynamics for software delivery. We build secure Software Factories based on DoD reference designs and NIST Frameworks for Cloud and DevSecOps. These factories deliver AI/ML Applications, Data Science Platforms, Blockchain and Microservices for DoD, Healthcare and Civilian Agencies
About the role: The proposal aims to enhance the Department of Defense’s (DoD) data, analytics, and AI capabilities by leveraging the Advana platform and the CDAO’s Search Portfolio. It focuses on expanding the integration and deployment of the semantic search API to improve AI-driven search functionalities across multiple security domains. The initiative will further develop GAMECHANGER Policy Search, Contract Search, and JBook Search to streamline access to critical DoD documents. By providing a self-service AI-enabled search capability, the proposal seeks to support data-driven decision-making from the boardroom to the battlefield. Ultimately, the project will ensure scalable and secure AI-powered solutions for joint warfighting and operational efficiency.

Job responsibilities

• Significant experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R, Proficient in one or more big data programming languages, such as Python, Scala, or Java 
• Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components. 
• Experience with Elasticsearch and related indexing technologies 
• AI/ML model development, containerization, and productization experience 
• Familiarity with natural language processing, the use of Large Language Models, and the use of both containerized and Apache Spark based computing environments (e.g. Databricks) for the processing of unstructured text data. 
• Knowledge Graph construction and reasoning experience, to include experience with property graph model frameworks and Neo4J. 
• Experience with cloud based computing environments such as AWS or GCS, especially experience with GovCloud, C2S, SC2S, UC2S and follow-on government cloud compute environments. 
• Experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes. 
• Experience with cyber security compliance, secure software development methodologies and the process for obtaining authority to operate (ATO) on defense and intelligence community networks. 
• Experience leveraging existing COTS/GOTS/OS tools in unconventional manners. 

Duties

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• Analyze and assess software development and data processing requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions. 
• Develop an understanding the technical requirements, aligning them to business goals, and then translating them into architectures capable of handling complex search queries across collections of large datasets, utilizing the Advana platform 
• Support and work with a hybrid team of analyst, engineers, and developers to conduct research, and build and deploy complex, but easy-to-use search tools, analytical capabilities and/or devise a plan for development. 
• Works with data scientists, UX designers, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound designs that form the basis of scalable solutions.  
• Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics.  
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