GTA Senior Cloud AI Architect

Plans and schedules team resources status reporting and completion of required documentation for team assignment and projects. Analyzes and develops work or project plans for team assignments. Analyzes and implements solutions. Supervises subordinates.

• MUST be local to Metro Atlanta

JOB SUMMARY :

The Senior Cloud and AI Architect is an experienced advanced-level professional responsible for creating the design and implementation of secure scalable and ethical AI solutions to support government and public service missions. This role combines deep AI / ML expertise with architectural leadership to modernize public sector operations improve citizen engagement and drive data-informed decision-making - all while maintaining compliance transparency and trust. This position requires advanced skills in multiple areas of architecture with expert or specialized knowledge in cloud platforms and AI. The architect will communicate with stakeholders at all levels support multiple teams and projects and mentor other architects. A key responsibility is to work with GTA to design develop and implement IT architecture AWS cloud implementations and advanced AI / ML solutions across State Agencies.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS :

10 years of overall experience including a minimum of 5 years of enterprise full-life cycle architecture experience in the professional IT / Software Development services industry.

5-8 years of hands-on technical application architecture experience including application build and modernization.

Extensive experience architecting designing and programming applications to operate in AWS environments.

Experience in developing solutions architecture and evaluating architectural alternatives for private public and hybrid cloud models (IaaS PaaS and other cloud services).

Proven experience in designing and implementing secure scalable and ethical AI / ML solutions leveraging public cloud or hybrid environments.

Strong technical expertise in machine learning deep learning and natural language processing.

Evaluate and recommend AI platforms frameworks and tools (e.g. Azure ML AWS SageMaker Google Vertex AI PyTorch).

Design secure and compliant AI / ML solutions leveraging public cloud or hybrid environments.

AGENCY SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS :

Minimum Qualifications :

Must meet one of the following requirements :

Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Data Science or an equivalent work experience.

At least 5 years of progressive experience with the concepts philosophies and tools behind the design of applications solution architecture and underlying information technologies on AWS / Public Cloud and AI / ML platforms. Preferred Qualifications :

(Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate some or all of the following skills / experience) :

AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Experience with state and local Government is a plus.

Enterprise-wide integration experience for both cloud and AI solutions.

Experience with cutting-edge AI technologies in developing chatbots and generative AI (GenAI) and LLM deployment for public sector use cases.

Knowledge of integration standards and best practices for cloud and AI systems.

Understanding of public sector security and compliance standards (e.g. FedRAMP FISMA NIST AI RMF NIST NA0-53).

Experience with AI ethics bias mitigation and responsible AI frameworks.

Prior work with federal state or municipal digital transformation programs.

Certification in cloud architecture or AI specialties (AWS Azure or GCP).

Required / Desired Skills

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Bachelors degree in information technology Computer Science Data Science or an equivalent work experience.

Required

Experience with the concepts philosophies and tools behind the design of applications solution architecture and underlying information technologie

Required

Years

Enterprise full-life cycle architecture experience in the professional IT / Software Development services industry.

Required

Years

Hands-on technical application architecture experience including application build and modernization.

Required

Years

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (PLS UPLOAD CERTIFICATION)

Highly desired

Experience with state and local Government is a plus.

Highly desired

Experience with cutting-edge AI technologies in developing chatbots and generative AI (GenAI) and LLM deployment for public sector use cases.

Highly desired

Experience with AI ethics bias mitigation and responsible AI frameworks

Highly desired

Certification in cloud architecture or AI specialties (AWS Azure or GCP). (PLS UPLOAD CERTIFICATION)

Highly desired

Questions

No.

Question

Question1

Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you agree to this requirement

Question2

What is your candidates email address

Question3

If selected for engagement your candidates hourly Pay Rate must be at least NA Your candidate can be paid more; however the hourly SRP Rate cannot exceed NA Do you agree to these requirements

Question4

The maximum mark-up for this engagements SRP rate is NA%. To be competitive on pricing a mark-up below the NA% threshold is suggested. Do you agree to propose a mark-up at or below NA%

Question5

This assignment is contingent upon customer renewal and availability of adequate funding. Do you agree to this requirement

Question6

If selected for engagement your candidate will be expected to start no later than 2 weeks (10 business days) after the clients selection date Do you agree to this requirement

Question7

HYBRID work option : However the selected candidate must be available to report onsite as directed by the client. Do you accept this requirement

Question8

Candidates MUST be local to Atlanta to begin and continue this assignment. Do you and your candidate accept this requirement

Question9

List the City and State where your candidate currently resides.

Key Skills

Apache Hive,S3,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Solr,NoSQL,Data Warehouse,Internet Of Things,Kafka,DynamoDB,ZooKeeper

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1