Technical Lead

Abacus Technology•Arlington, VA

About The Position

Abacus Technology is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to coordinate between the development team and technical stakeholders for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Office of Inspector General (OIG). This is a full-time position.

Requirements

7+ years experience including experience in software development, data governance, and software integration.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Collibra or Databricks experience required.
Ability to integrate platforms through APIs, SQL or comparable interfaces and troubleshoot inconsistencies
Hands-on experience with AI/ML development and operations within an AI framework or platform, embedding bias mitigation, explainability, and fairness-assessment controls into software-development and operational workflows is highly desired.
Demonstrated experience configuring, developing, or integrating AI and ML tools.
Experience creating role-based technical playbooks and operational guidance.
Hands-on experience with Databricks or similar tool for data engineering, analytics, machine learning, or AI development.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
Must be a US citizen.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on Collibra experience configuring assets, attributes, responsibilities, permissions and workflows desired.
Experience integrating Collibra with Databricks Unity Catalog preferred.
Knowledge of responsible AI and AI risk-management frameworks, including NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 desired.

Responsibilities

Configure (and/or advise others) Collibra assets, attributes, relationships, responsibilities and permissions.
Translate governance requirements into practical metadata models and platform configurations and integrations.
Assess existing configurations and recommend improvements in usability and maintainability.
Develop and maintain forms, review workflows, routing rules and decision records.
Design, develop, and deploy APIs, SQL and approved integration tools to exchange information between enterprise services.
Test workflow behavior, permissions and data exchanges against defined requirements.
Troubleshoot configuration and integration issues and document corrective actions.
Maintain risk information and supporting records in accordance with approved procedures.
Prepare documentation and supporting records for governance, audit and compliance reviews.
Clarify governance requirements with technical and business stakeholders and validate that forms, records and workflows are usable.
Communicate technical questions, risks, and solutions to government stakeholders.
Work with Databricks and related model management capabilities to support AI operations.
Create monitoring dashboards, logs and alerts that help users understand system performance.