AI Architect & Data Science Lead

AI Architect & Data Science Lead

Las Vegas, NV

Serve as the Senior AI Architect and Data Science Lead supporting a high-visibility Customer aviation modernization, sustainment, and test enterprise. Provide contractor technical leadership, aligning AI/ML, data, cloud, software, cyber, and systems-engineering workstreams with mission outcomes and program-office priorities. 



Top Secret Clearance Required

100% onsite in Las Vegas, NV



Responsibilities

• Translate operational, acquisition, test, and sustainment needs into AI/data science roadmaps, reference architectures, model evaluation plans, release criteria, and measurable decision-support outcomes


• Architect secure full-stack solutions spanning data ingestion, APIs, application services, analytic products, ML training and inference, MLOps, observability, and edge/on-prem/cloud deployment patterns


• Lead predictive analytics, NLP/LLM, time-series, simulation, sensor-data, and decision-support initiatives using governed data products, Python/SQL, ML frameworks, containerized services, and reusable enterprise patterns


• Partner across government leadership, operators, cyber, test, platform, systems engineering, acquisition, vendor, and delivery teams to ensure technical designs are feasible, secure, supportable, and mission aligned


• Establish model validation, test, safety, performance, robustness, traceability, and risk controls appropriate for mission-relevant AI systems and production analytics


• Drive DevSecOps/MLOps discipline through CI/CD, Git-based configuration, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, vulnerability scanning, security monitoring, and repeatable release processes


• Provide AI thought leadership while remaining hands-on across architecture, data engineering, model development, software integration, technical documentation, senior-stakeholder briefings, and practitioner mentoring


• Lead data science workstreams including exploratory analysis, data quality profiling, feature engineering, statistical modeling, forecasting, anomaly detection, NLP/LLM/RAG, simulation, sensor/time-series analytics, and model validation. 

Requirements

• Top Secret Clearance


• Master’s or equivalent advanced graduate-level depth in AI, ML, data science, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, or related discipline


• Advanced experience designing, delivering, and sustaining enterprise AI/ML, data science, cloud, and full-stack software systems in regulated, mission-critical, or defense environments 


• Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs, delivery risk, architecture alternatives, and operational implications to senior military, government, contractor, and nontechnical stakeholders


• Experience with ETL/ELT, pipelines, data governance, feature stores, model registries, observability, or AI assurance workflows

Desired Skills

• Full-stack literacy across frontend concepts, API/service design, backend services, databases, containers, cloud/hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD, and monitoring


• Experience in sustainment, test, digital engineering, simulation, sensor data, logistics, readiness analytics, or operational decision-support domains

Military / Contractor Caveats

• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain required DoD security clearance, base access, and eligibility for classified or controlled environments as directed by contract


• Must comply with OPSEC, CUI, ITAR/export-control, RMF, cybersecurity, safety, data-handling, travel, drug-testing, ethics, and government-furnished equipment requirements


• Performs contractor technical support and advisory functions only; acquisition, command, operational, and inherently governmental decisions remain with authorized government officials


• Work may require onsite presence at government or Partner facilities, coordination across secure networks, CONUS/OCONUS travel, surge support, and adherence to evolving mission priorities

About Us

For more than 20 years, NewGen Technologies has solved our clients’ toughest IT challenges with integrity, security, and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror, aided the identification of criminals, and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of biometrics. Our team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance. #CJ