Data Scientist Chief

SAIC•Chantilly, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Reports to the CTO / Capture Lead; serves as the senior technical advisor and mission-aligned strategist for data, AI/ML, and Agentic AI solutioning across Intelligence Community (IC) pursuits, SOAR™ commercial engagements, and customer shaping activities. This role is deliberately designed as a hybrid of pre-sales engineering and domain advisory — someone technical enough to architect and price SOAR™ completions, and credible enough to shape demand with IC customers 18+ months before a bid drops. This is not a proposal writer. This is not a delivery engineer. This is the person who creates customer pull, packages winning solutions, and ensures the team's technical narrative is grounded in real mission need and real technology capability.

Requirements

Technical enough to architect and price SOAR™ completions
Credible enough to shape demand with IC customers 18+ months before a bid drops
Ability to translate mission needs into fixed-price, outcomes-based solutions with defined MVPs and delivery timelines
Experience developing CONOPS, technical briefs, and solution packages
Experience architecting SOAR™ solutions incorporating AI/ML, Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, Knowledge Graphs, and Data Fabric capabilities
Experience supporting ATO planning and security architecture design
Experience driving IC Marketplace (ICMP/C2E) listings and private offer structuring
Understanding of SOAR™ pricing models, aaS contract structures
Experience developing and delivering white papers, capability briefs, and prototype demonstrations
Ability to translate IC analyst workflows, operational pain points, and mission gaps into concrete technology solution concepts
Experience partnering with Client Executive Consultants and Domain SMEs
Experience serving as the technical voice in customer shaping events, industry days, and working groups
Experience leading and contributing to traditional FAR-based capture activities including RFI responses, Market Surveys, Whitepapers, CONOPS, and full RFP technical volumes for IC bids
Ability to translate complex technical concepts — data architecture, AI/ML pipelines, Agentic AI frameworks, sovereign compute — into compelling, evaluator-friendly proposal narratives
Experience working with Solution Architects on major FAR captures
Experience supporting competitive analysis and technology landscape assessments
Experience providing technical basis of estimate inputs for price-to-win analysis
Experience evaluating emerging technologies — including Agentic AI, GenAI, MLOps platforms, graph databases, vector search, and multi-modal intelligence tools
Ability to monitor and interpret IC technology strategies, ODNI/DIA/IC CIO guidance, and relevant executive directives
Experience providing technology assessments and recommendations to capture teams, program managers, and customer-facing personnel
Experience advising on responsible AI (RAI) frameworks including bias detection, human-in-the-loop governance, auditability, and model provenance requirements for IC environments
Experience evaluating commercial partner technologies (AWS, Google, Groq, Cerebras, CrewAI, Primer, Nara Logics)
Experience providing senior technical advisory support to active SOAR™ delivery programs
Experience advising program teams on AI/ML pipeline development, RAG architecture, knowledge base design, and multi-model integration strategies
Experience contributing to continuous innovation pipelines by scouting, evaluating, and prototyping emerging AI/ML and Agentic AI technologies

Responsibilities

Owns the technical architecture, scoping, and pricing of SOAR™ completion-based offerings for IC customers, translating mission needs into fixed-price, outcomes-based solutions with defined MVPs and delivery timelines
Develops CONOPS, technical briefs, and solution packages that articulate mission fit, platform architecture, and delivery approach tailored to specific IC customer environments and acquisition pathways
Architects SOAR™ solutions incorporating AI/ML, Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, Knowledge Graphs, and Data Fabric capabilities — ensuring alignment with IC technical standards and security requirements
Supports ATO planning and security architecture design, ensuring proposed solutions are engineered for Zero Trust compliance and IC security frameworks from day one
Drives IC Marketplace (ICMP/C2E) listings and private offer structuring in coordination with the Pre-Sales SOAR engineer, providing the technical validation and mission context that closes deals
Understands and advises on SOAR™ pricing models, aaS contract structures, and how IC customers can obligate commercial dollars — bridging the gap between technical solution and acquisition reality
Develops and delivers white papers, capability briefs, and prototype demonstrations that introduce emerging AI/ML and Agentic AI capabilities to IC stakeholders in mission-relevant terms
Translates IC analyst workflows, operational pain points, and mission gaps into concrete technology solution concepts that the Pre-Sales and delivery teams can execute
Partners with Client Executive Consultants and Domain SMEs to access directorates and mission offices where the team does not hold prime contracts, driving SOAR™ adoption through customer intimacy
Serves as the technical voice in customer shaping events, industry days, and working groups — leaving prototypes or demo artifacts behind that sustain engagement between visits
Leads and contributes to traditional FAR-based capture activities including RFI responses, Market Surveys, Whitepapers, CONOPS, and full RFP technical volumes for IC bids
Translates complex technical concepts — data architecture, AI/ML pipelines, Agentic AI frameworks, sovereign compute — into compelling, evaluator-friendly proposal narratives that score at the Outstanding level
Works hand-in-glove with Solution Architects on major FAR captures (e.g., MARS, Revolution, COMET) to ensure AI/ML solution design is grounded in mission reality and technically defensible
Supports competitive analysis and technology landscape assessments to inform win strategies and discriminators
Provides technical basis of estimate inputs for price-to-win analysis, grounded in realistic platform and delivery assumptions
Evaluates emerging technologies — including Agentic AI, GenAI, MLOps platforms, graph databases, vector search, and multi-modal intelligence tools — against IC strategies, priorities, and approved platform lists
Monitors and interprets IC technology strategies, ODNI/DIA/IC CIO guidance, and relevant executive directives to ensure proposed solutions remain compliant and strategically aligned
Provides technology assessments and recommendations to capture teams, program managers, and customer-facing personnel — serving as the team's internal authority on what is technically credible vs. what is vapor
Advises on responsible AI (RAI) frameworks including bias detection, human-in-the-loop governance, auditability, and model provenance requirements for IC environments
Evaluates commercial partner technologies (AWS, Google, Groq, Cerebras, CrewAI, Primer, Nara Logics) for fit within IC solution architectures and co-sell opportunities
Provides senior technical advisory support to active SOAR™ delivery programs as needed, assisting with capability expansions, evolving mission requirements, and technical challenges
Advises program teams on AI/ML pipeline development, RAG architecture, knowledge base design, and multi-model integration strategies
Contributes to continuous innovation pipelines by scouting, evaluating, and prototyping emerging AI/ML and Agentic AI technologies relevant to IC mission areas

Benefits

Secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services
Integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives

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