AI Data Solutions Architect

Location: Fort Bliss, TX

Clearance: Active Secret

About the Role

Join JANUS as a key member of our Data Analytics team, which is implementing Lighthouse technologies to help the Army solve data federation, governance, and analytics challenges with secure, state-of-the-art cloud solutions. You’ll architect and operationalize Azure-based data platforms and AI/ML/LLM integrations that deliver real-time metrics, predictive analytics, and accelerated After-Action Review (AAR) insights aligned to Army event cycles and campaign plans.

This individual serves as a Product Manager responsible for designing, developing, and delivering a comprehensive platform that integrates diverse data analysis, management, and decision-support capabilities, enabling U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command to tackle a wide variety of data-related challenges. The tool must have an extensible framework and advanced modules, and support work in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), real-time metrics generation, and streamlined data-driven decision-making, offering tailored solutions to meet evolving mission requirements across a broad spectrum of applications.

This role blends hands-on cloud engineering with solutions architecture leadership driving the vision, governance, and integration of data pipelines and advanced analytics across JMC missions.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Engineer Solutions: Design and implement scalable data solutions using Azure Data & Storage, Databricks, Azure Analytics, Purview, and other PaaS services.
• Operationalize AI/ML: Deploy Lighthouse AI/ML/LLM modules for campaign analysis, strategic communications planning, and automated calendar synchronization.
• Dashboard & Analytics Development: Partner with application teams to deploy dashboards and predictive analytics in SharePoint (NIPR/SIPR), Power BI, Python, and R.
• Data Governance & Quality: Establish and enforce governance, lineage, and quality standards that drive authoritative, trusted data for decision-making.
• Integration & Federation: Plan, design, and implement ingestion of diverse external data sources, ensuring interoperability across multiple Army environments and enterprise systems.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Provide guidance to clients, partners, and teammates while coordinating PRS-driven deliverables across IPTs, IPRs, CMBs, NOSC, and ERBs.
• Security & Compliance: Champion OPSEC, IA, and PII safeguards in all workflows, aligning with DoD and Army enterprise architecture standards.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data/Information Systems, Math, or related field (Master’s preferred). Equivalent experience may substitute.
• Clearance: Active Secret Clearance required.
• Experience:
  • 5+ years leading or engineering enterprise data/analytics platforms.
  • 3–5+ years in ETL, data wrangling, and data pipeline development.
  • Demonstrated ability to unify disparate data sources into predictive dashboards and executive-ready products.
  • Familiarity with DoD/Army modernization, , or joint experimentation preferred.
  • Strong background with Azure cloud services (Data & Storage, Databricks, Analytics, Purview) or equivalent ETL/SQL/Access experience.
• Skills:
  • Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement and documentation.
  • Mathematical/statistical problem-solving and advanced data engineering.
  • Knowledge of database structures, joins, and data blending.
  • Team-oriented, motivated, and self-directed with growing presentation skills.

Salary: $142k

Benefits:

401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays, Medical and Dental Plans, Life and Disability insurance, Education Assistance (and more).

JANUS strives to provide opportunities for career growth through training and development. We also offer an attractive comprehensive benefit package to include health and welfare plans and financial products. As part of a total rewards program, employees can benefit from our referral bonus program, and other various employee awards. JANUS Research Group takes pride in our benefit package and rewards program which has earned us the certification of a Great Place to Work™

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