Technical Innovation Subject Matter Expert; Artificial Intelligence

Technical Innovation Subject Matter Expert in Artificial Intelligence

Strait Sys is seeking a Technical Innovation Subject Matter Expert in Artificial Intelligence to support the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. This position will provide strategic and technical leadership in the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise technology solutions leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI technologies. This position leads technical teams in delivering innovative, secure, scalable, and responsible AI solutions that enhance business operations, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and support data-driven decision making.

• Facilitate the definition of project charter, scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Lead architecture, design, implementation, and support of Generative AI solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for AI initiatives involving Machine Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), intelligent automation, and predictive analytics.
• Design and implement GenAI solutions using commercial and open-source foundation models to improve business processes, employee productivity, and customer engagement.
• Develop AI-enabled applications using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, prompt engineering, AI agents, semantic search, and orchestration frameworks.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, models, and platforms, recommending solutions that align with organizational goals and enterprise architecture.
• Lead proof-of-concepts (POCs), pilot programs, and production deployments of AI and GenAI capabilities.
• Collaborate with business leaders, developers, data engineers, cybersecurity teams, data scientists, and vendors to identify and implement AI use cases.
• Establish enterprise standards for AI architecture, model governance, responsible AI, prompt management, and AI lifecycle management.
• Ensure AI and GenAI solutions comply with cybersecurity requirements, privacy regulations, ethical AI principles, and organizational governance policies.
• Lead integration of AI services with enterprise applications, APIs, cloud platforms, collaboration platforms, and business workflows.
• Mentor technical staff on AI development practices, prompt engineering techniques, AI governance, and emerging technologies.
• Develop technology roadmaps supporting enterprise AI adoption and digital transformation initiatives.
• Stay current with advances in Generative AI, foundation models, cloud AI services, and industry best practices.
• Assist the Government in creating and compiling project plans and work assignments, project schedules and milestones for new innovation, and budgetary documentation; facilitating and monitoring work efforts; identifying resource trends and needs; and escalating functional, quality, or timeline issues appropriately.
• Work closely with internal and government stakeholders to understand negotiated, documented, and agreed upon request deliverables.
• Assist the Government in assessing, validating, monitoring, planning, and controlling/mitigating project change and risk.
• Communicate progress, status, and issues to customers and management.
• Assist the Government in measuring project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques.
• Assist the Government in managing customer expectations and maintaining ongoing client satisfaction.
• Plan, facilitate and champion effective Agile / Scrum ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, stand ups, sprint demos and retrospectives.
• Analyze new and complex project related problems and create innovative solutions involving finance, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components.

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• Demonstrated project management disciplines and governance, Agile/Scrum-based practices, and Dev Sec Ops , with demonstrated progression of increased scope and complexity.
• Knowledge to develop and manage highly scalable cloud-based systems.
• Ability to present effective executive level and decision-making presentations and ability to explain complex technical concepts in pictures and words that are understandable to a broad audience.
• Commitment to exceptional customer collaboration and engagement techniques.
• Proven success in managing multiple priorities with follow-through on projects/tasks to completion; must manage multiple tasks independently and prioritize to meet business needs.
• Prior success in an Information Technology Service Management environment.
• Must be able to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships.
• Must communicate clearly and concisely, orally and in writing, with users and technical support.
• Must be willing to serve as team lead for the contractor staff assigned to the Task Order

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Active Top Secret Clearance; may be required to obtain SCI access
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in business,…