Cloud Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton • Fayetteville, NC

3d • $99,000 - $225,000

About The Position

The Cloud Solutions Architect designs, develops, and delivers production-grade agentic AI systems that demonstrate the practical value of generative AI, large language models, and autonomous workflows. The role combines technical expertise and product skills to build AI applications using prompting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic orchestration, evaluation pipelines, and human-in-the-loop systems, with an emphasis on measurable impact.

The architect creates modular, reusable AI application patterns; integrates cloud-hosted, local, and hybrid model providers; and applies structured prompting, tool use, workflow orchestration, and multimodal reasoning. Solutions may be deployed on cloud-hosted platforms or as portable, self-contained builds, with attention to latency, cost efficiency, observability, and safety. The role also involves rapid prototyping, AI-assisted development, evaluation-driven development, and continuous experimentation.

The position shapes mission-critical agentic systems by selecting and combining prompting strategies, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, and fine-tuned or foundation models. It collaborates with AI and ML engineers, data engineers, data scientists, solutions architects, product owners, and clients to identify opportunities, define requirements, deliver solutions, and support responsible AI adoption. Applicants need a TS/SCI clearance and a bachelor’s degree.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of professional experience in AI- or ML-focused roles.
• Experience with an object-oriented programming language such as Python and applying it to AI or ML solution development.
• Experience designing and implementing production-grade generative or agentic AI applications.
• Experience with RAG architectures, evaluation methodologies, experimentation workflows, and asynchronous or event-driven programming patterns.
• Knowledge of AI data-processing techniques, including text, audio, and multimodal data.
• TS/SCI clearance; applicants selected are subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with agent frameworks, interoperability standards, and multi-agent patterns such as MCP, A2A, LangGraph, or equivalent.
• Experience with model fine-tuning, prompt tuning, domain adaptation, or reinforcement learning from human or AI feedback.
• Experience designing evaluation suites or safety testing frameworks for AI systems, and integrating AI systems with external tools, APIs, or enterprise systems via tool-calling or computer-use patterns.
• Experience with modern front-end libraries and component-based UI frameworks, including React, and workflows such as build pipelines, automated testing, and code quality tooling.
• AWS ML, Data Engineer, or Solutions Architect certification.

Responsibilities

• Design adaptable AI architectures supporting multiple model providers, tool ecosystems, modalities, and deployment modes.
• Integrate LLMs, embeddings, RAG pipelines, structured outputs, and long-context or memory mechanisms into production-ready systems.
• Develop data pipelines for ingesting, cleaning, chunking, embedding, indexing, and continuously refreshing structured and unstructured data for RAG and memory systems.
• Incorporate guardrails, safety filters, access controls, and monitoring to support responsible and secure deployment of agentic AI systems.
• Deploy AI services securely and at scale on AWS or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Apply CI/CD and evaluation-driven development practices, including automated testing of prompts and workflows, versioning prompts and agents, and safely rolling out model updates.
• Use AI assistance tools to accelerate development, debugging, and system design while maintaining engineering rigor and code quality.
• Collaborate with clients to identify high-value AI opportunities and define solution requirements.
• Present AI capabilities and technical solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead workshops and prototyping sessions to accelerate adoption.
• Provide guidance on responsible AI practices, ethics, and compliance.

Benefits

• Health, life, and disability benefits
• Financial and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care
• Recognition awards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level