Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you ready to work with a performance-based small company? At Zantech, we are a dynamic Woman Owned Small Business focused on providing complex, mission-focused solutions with a proven track record of outstanding customer performance and high employee satisfaction. We would love to talk with you regarding the next step in your career. Come join our team!
Zantech is looking for a talented Data & AI Architect to contribute to the success of our upcoming Enterprise Business Transformation project in a Hybrid role based out of the Washington DC Metro area.
The Data & AI Architect play a crucial role in:
- HHS Grants Data Model & AI Inference Architecture (PRIMARY)
- OneGrants Cloud Support
- Current State Assessment (data perspective)
Summary:
The Data & AI Architect will play a crucial role in providing support for OneGrants Cloud (early development phase). Designs AI-powered cloud data lake architecture, HHS grants data model, semantic layer, AI inference architecture for predictive/generative AI. Develops proof-of-concepts for AI-enabled business process automation using 20 years of grants data. Ensures alignment with Federal Data & AI Strategy, trustworthy AI principles, FedRAMP, FISMA Moderate requirements.
Required Experience or Knowledge of the following technologies/functions:
- 8+ years data architecture
- 5+ years AI/ML architecture
- 3+ years cloud data platforms (AWS data services)
- Data lake/lakehouse architecture - S3, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation
- AI/ML architecture - SageMaker, inference endpoints, LLMs
- Data modeling - dimensional, semantic layers, ontologies
- Data governance, quality, lineage
- AI ethics and responsible AI frameworks
Preferred Education/Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or Statistics
- Master's degree or PhD in specialized domain
- AWS ML Specialty or Data Analytics Specialty preferred)
Required Security Clearance:
- US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret trust or higher clearance, per contract requirements.
“Outstanding Performance…Always!”
Our corporate motto represents our commitment to build long-term relationships with both our clients and our employees by providing the highest quality service in everything we do. We strive for excellence for our clients and for each other. We embrace the opportunity to hire individuals with new talents and fresh perspectives. Zantech offers competitive compensation, strong benefits, and a vacation package, as well as a fast-paced and exciting work environment. Come join our team!
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What We Do
Zantech was founded in 2007, by Zia Islam with the vision of building an organization, highly skilled at developing technology-oriented solutions for information systems requirements, for Federal Government customers. Zantech was created based on high quality standards, integrating lessons learned from GM as well as incorporating CMMI ML3 DEV and Six Sigma methodologies for quality and adaptive agile principles for efficient, timely performance. In this way, Zantech is taking the rigorous methodologies that are used in commercial sectors and applies them to reduce waste while improving accuracy and efficiency in our government contracts. Our focus on continuous process improvement has guided Zantech to ensure that we have consistent, reliable service across all geographic sites while recognizing and meeting the specific requirements.
Zantech is one of the fastest-growing IT solutions and business strategy Government Contracting firms. We apply state-of-the-art methodologies to develop total systems solutions that meet mission-critical requirements and develops customer-specific solutions for enterprise information systems. Zantech has successfully executed more than 75 prime contracts with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, NASA, and many other Federal departments and agencies.
Zantech provides high quality, cost effective, state-of-the-art holistic solutions to satisfy and exceed customer requirements. Zantech is focused on providing “Outstanding Performance…Always” to our customers.
