K.L. Scott & Associates (KLSA) is a mission-driven management and technology consulting firm that partners with public-sector organizations. They are seeking a Data & AI Architect to serve as the technical authority for enterprise data, analytics, and AI architecture supporting a chatbot platform, ensuring secure and scalable AI operations.
Responsibilities:
- Implement data quality checks, validation rules, versioning, lineage, and access controls aligned to governance requirements
- Create and maintain curated datasets and searchable knowledge artifacts to support retrieval and response grounding
- Optimize indexing and retrieval pipelines to improve response relevance, latency, and overall user experience
- Support release cycles by ensuring data refresh procedures, rollback plans, and operational monitoring are in place
- Build secure ingestion and processing pipelines for documents, guidance, SOPs, and approved structured data sources
- Implement data quality checks, validation rules, versioning, lineage, and access controls aligned to governance requirements
- Create and maintain curated datasets and searchable knowledge artifacts to support retrieval and response grounding
- Optimize indexing and retrieval pipelines to improve response relevance, latency, and overall user experience
- Support release cycles by ensuring data refresh procedures, rollback plans, and operational monitoring are in place
- Develop data architecture and AI product architecture in alignment with Federal and agency security requirements
- Support the harvesting and refinement of solutions for internal KLSA product portfolio
- Ability to operate with minimal management oversight and maintain compliance in alignment to project requirements
- Ability to engage with, collaborate, and present to executive stakeholders (CFO), technical leaders (CDO), and mission leaders (Division Directors)
- Maintain professional execution of project delivery while engaging with executive presence as all times