Systems Architect

Responsibilities

We are looking to add a Systems Architect to our team of talented professionals.

 

What you'll do:

 

The Systems Architect will perform independent high-level design of enterprise systems, specifically focused on delivering new MLOps capabilities, integrating advanced AI use cases, and deploying LLMs into an existing cloud-based, distributed, high-performance analytics platform.

 

• Providing expertise in the formulation of system scope and objectives relative to the business plan and industry requirements.
• Designing model development lifecycle optimizations and process automation of model quality checks.
• Ensuring data security, quality, and overall governance is at the forefront of all newly implemented changes.
• Staying up to date with latest capabilities rolled out to current COTS products integrated into the analytics system architecture, such as Snowflake and Databricks.
• Performing cost-benefit analyses to determine whether requirements are best met by manual, software, or hardware functions; making maximum use of commercial off-the-shelf or already developed components.
• Creating comprehensive documentation to support complex system integration.  
• Assisting in operationalizing AI/ML workflows into production.
• Communicating platform changes and escalating platform issues as they arise.
• Generating a set of acceptance test requirements for complex systems, together with the designers, test engineers, and the user to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience
• Experience leading complex technical development
• Technical project management experience
• Experience working with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) information systems
• Familiarity with Medicare claims data
• Ability to work independently and effectively with little to no supervision
• Team player
• Excellent executive function and communication skills
• Experience working with Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS Cloud Services
• Knowledge of machine learning and analytics
• Experience with Java, Snowflake SQL, Python, R, and Scala
• Experience in System Architecture and the development of software frameworks and APIs to mediate between model developers and data structures
• Experience in building and automating application package deployments
• US Citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification preferred
• Experience with components of Databricks’ E2 Platform (Unity Catalog and Feature Store)
• API development experience or experience utilizing Databricks REST APIs
• Advanced Spark architecture knowledge experience
• Development with scripting languages, such as Python or bash, to support automated CI/CD processes
• Experience integrating large scale analytics components to support model development
• Experience in healthcare industry analytics and data, preferably Medicare or Medicaid

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.