AI Solution Architect Security Clearance

Position: AI Solution Architect with Security Clearance
Location: Nellis Air Force Base

Job Number: R0240085 AI Solution Architect

The Opportunity:

Design and implement effective AI solution architecture or strategy utilizing approaches of various AI technologies and met hods to address clients' business problems and needs, while complying with the organization's strategies and business goals, and key ethical considerations. Apply leading-edge principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of new principles and concepts. Work on unusually complex problems and provide highly innovative solutions.

Operate with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision, and mentor or supervise employees in both company and technical competencies. You Have:
* 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering AI-enabled mission or enterprise systems, including data integration, secure compute, and operator-facing applications across restricted or classified environments

* 10+ years of experience designing and implementing data pipelines, ontologies, and application workflows on platforms such as Palantir Foundry or Gotham, including air gapped, degraded connectivity, or multiclassification deployments

* 10+ years of experience building secure analytics ecosystems, including log pipelines, monitoring frameworks, operational dashboards, or intelligence fusion environments, whether greenfield or migrated from legacy tooling

* 10+ years of experience with Dev Sec Ops  practices such as containerization, orchestration, CI / CD, and automated testing adapted for limited toolchain environments where standard pipelines don't fully apply

* 10+ years of experience integrating AI / ML capabilities into production workflows or operator tooling, including LLM backed assistants, model augmented decision aids, or automation that expands what a small team can deliver

* 10+ years of experience making sound architectural tradeoffs in constrained, shifting, or high-pressure mission c ond itions such as restricted toolsets, tight timelines, fragmented networks, or mid execution requirement changes

* Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technologies, develop real hands-on mastery, and lead engineers through full implementation with confidence

* Ability to architect under ambiguity, own outcomes end to end, and communicate decisions clearly to engineers, government stakeholders, and senior non-technical leaders

* Secret clearance
* Bachelor's degree Nice If You Have:
* Experience working across multiple clouds, enclaves, or classification levels on the same program, including translating architectures between NIPR, SIPR, or JWICS or coalition equivalents

* Experience on major defense programs or with large systems integrator s, delivering mission capability while navigating bureaucratic, acquisition, or compliance friction

* Experience supporting DoD installations, operational units, or C2 systems espe cia lly when the inherited environment was undocumented, partially broken, or technically inconsistent

* Experience building agentic workflows, automation pipelines, or custom tooling that materially increased engineering throughput or reduced operator friction

* Experience in a senior technical lead or architect role where you were accountable for both the design and successful delivery of the system

* Experience operating on a tiger team, flyaway cell, or rapid response unit parachuting into complex problems, delivering under compressed timelines, and exiting cleanly

* Top Secret clearance
* AWS, Palantir Foundry or Gotham, Kubernetes, or similar Architecture Certification s Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information ;
Secret clearance is required. Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, 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, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

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