Data & AI Architect

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