Senior Solutions Architect

Data Scientist

Altamira delivers a variety of analytic and engineering capabilities to the US National Security community, but the tech culture and the caliber of the individuals that bring these capabilities to fruition are what really set us apart. We’re a curious, responsive, dedicated bunch spread across many corporate cultures. Dayton, OH is highly focused on the Space-based mission set with a heavy emphasis on sensor exploitation and analysis; Tampa, FL focuses on ‘art-of-the-possible’ analytics of all kinds with an emphasis on graph technologies, NLP, and wrangling complex data sets; and all forces converge at our headquarters in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area where we host our tech events and support engineering and analytic missions across several IC and DOD agencies.

While our work occurs in different states and different mission domains, we’ve got analytics at the heart of every operation and genuine curiosity for new methods, techniques, and solutions. Our specialties are data science and analytics, data engineering, software engineering, and end-to-end analytic solutions architecture. We’ve also got some awesome benefits like the Altamira Healthy Living program, with ongoing competitions and a flexible spending stipend for health and wellness-related items.

Location: McLean/Tyson’s Corner, VA and/or NGA, Springfield, VA

The Role: The Altamira Solutions Architect will serve as a technical lead on a SOCOM program and support other Data Architecture, Data Engineering, and Data Science programs on an ad hoc basis. Initially the role of the Solutions Architect will be to contribute to a small, specialized team developing recommendations and prototypes around SOCOM’s Enterprise Data Architect. A successful candidate will be able to provide technical leadership on cloud-based development (AWS), systems engineering, analytic systems architecture, development environments, IaC, containerization and container orchestration, edge computing, high-performance computing, and/or other related topics. That said, we also need your hands on a keyboard! You will be working with other analytics professionals to implement the solutions you help conceive. You will also track competing solutions, software and tools, and other technical efforts within target customer spaces to better inform the technical solutions within your team. Quarterly travel to Fort Bragg, NC and/or Tampa, FL is expected for this role.

Your Skills:

• Leading technical solutioning sessions among various engineers, data scientists, and SMEs; documenting requirements; and defining complex technical approaches
• Conducting, documenting, and clearly communicating AOAs of varying technical approaches, tools, and software
• Programming in 2 or more programming languages
• Assessing, implementing, and interacting with modern database types
• Advising on topics pertaining to systems architecture, e.g., storage solutions, to virtualize or centralize enterprise data, which tool to use to better facilitate data access to mission partners across a variety of networks and security environments
• Developing software within and across cloud environments
• Managing, administrating, or developing within architectures that span multiple security enclaves and classification levels
• Containerization and container orchestration
• Using common data engineering, solutions architecture, and software delivery technologies (e.g. Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Terraform, React, Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, etc.)
• Contributing to business growth and program success through technical leadership across disparate areas of technical solutioning, e.g., data science, enterprise data architecture, ML engineering, data engineering, etc.

Your Quals:

• Experience delivering software or other technical solutions to DOD or IC customers. e.g. Air Force, JAIC, NRO, NGA, or other intelligence organizations
• Experience significantly contributing to or delivering large DOD or IC system architectures using the DoDAF Architecture Framework, the DOD DevSecOps reference, or other DOD/IC open architecture standards
• 5+ years serving as a technical SME, project, or program lead in the areas of software engineering, systems architecture, cloud application development, or data science/engineering
• Familiarity with major mainstream DoD tools, e.g., Databricks, Apache tools (Airflow, Kafka), NiFi, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Previous experience supporting data science/machine learning (ML) programs from a data engineering, systems engineering, or software engineering perspective
• Knowledge of ML frameworks, workflows, and technologies
• Demonstrable experience with common tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud managed services (AWS), Apache products, Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, etc.
• PMP or program management experience desired
• Bachelor’s Degree (BS) or higher in relevant field (MS or PhD strongly preferred)
• TS/SCI clearance required to start work

Altamira is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We focus on recruiting talented, self-motivated employees that find a way to get things done. Join our team of experts as we engineer national security!

Altamira requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In accordance with applicable law, Altamira will provide an exemption to this requirement as a reasonable accommodation due to a disability or a sincerely held religious belief or practice that prevents receipt of the vaccine.

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