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# Principal AI Solutions Architect & Product Lead - Agentic AI, National Security (TS SCI -CI Poly)

- **Company:** Oteemo, Inc
- **Location:** Gaithersburg, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $87,100.0 - $157,450.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, Software Deployment, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Model Validation, Generative AI, AI Platforms, Information Technology, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usbfca10a174c9dfa8e2034b33a877a495

## About the Role

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility/access required, with the ability and willingness to obtain a CI polygraph as required.

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

 * 10+ years of technology, software, architecture, or technical consulting experience, including meaningful recent experience designing or implementing AI/ML or generative AI solutions.

 * Deep understanding of modern agentic architectures beyond prompt engineering - orchestration, tool use, retrieval, context management, evaluation, observability, security, and production deployment.

 * Hands-on engineering credibility: able to prototype, review designs and code, and challenge engineering assumptions; this is not primarily an individual-contributor developer role, but the candidate must be technically credible enough to ultimately lead a technical team.

Strong consulting skills - executive communication, structured problem solving, requirements discovery, workshop facilitation, relationship management, and the ability to turn ambiguous mission needs into actionable technical decisions., * Drive: Passion and energy to implement quality technical solutions. Self-motivation and intellectual curiosity

 * Commitment to Quality: Passion to conceive and produce world-class solutions that drive real-world value for the customer
 * Customer Focus: Consultative approach to solving problems for customers. Expectations management.
 * Communication: Superior communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate problems, solutions, risks, rewards etc. (written and verbal)
 * Technical Skills: Love for technology. You have to be inherently passionate about technology.
 * Business Acumen: Technology ultimately is used to enable the business. We look for people who understand how the businesses can be enabled through their technical solutions

## Description

Discovery & Solutioning: Lead discovery with mission owners, technical teams, and senior stakeholders to identify high-value AI and agentic use cases; translate strategic objectives into technical architectures, product roadmaps, implementation plans, prototypes, and engineering backlogs.

 * Architecture & Platform Strategy: Design agentic workflows and solution architectures spanning LLMs, tools, APIs, data sources, orchestration, RAG/knowledge systems, human-in-the-loop controls, and evaluation; advise customers on AI platform choices, model selection, security, governance, deployment patterns, and build-vs-buy decisions.

 * Consulting & Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as the technical counterpart to strategy-focused consulting partners, adding architectural depth and implementation realism to broader transformation efforts; facilitate architecture and product discussions with both executives and engineers; build trusted customer relationships and communicate complex technical decisions clearly to senior government stakeholders.

 * Hands-On Delivery & Technical Leadership: Build prototypes or contribute hands-on when necessary to validate approaches and de-risk implementation; transition from solution architecture into technical leadership of the implementation team, helping engineers turn concepts into production capabilities., Description Leidos is seeking a Lead AI Software Developer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of the Leidos Common Autom…
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