AI/Cloud Engineer/Architect

DecisionPoint seeks a part-time AI/Cloud Engineer/Architect to design, build, integrate, and secure artificial intelligence capabilities supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior-level position will develop knowledge assistants, retrieval workflows, and bounded multi-step agents that enhance Government operations while maintaining appropriate security, traceability, tool restrictions, and human oversight. 

The AI/Cloud Engineer/Architect will combine cloud architecture, secure application engineering, API integration, retrieval-based AI, and agentic workflow expertise. The role will implement source citations, authentication and authorization controls, tool permissions, exception handling, audit logging, automated testing, and human approval checkpoints. 

The successful candidate must be able to translate mission needs into secure, scalable, and supportable AI solutions that integrate with existing applications, data sources, cloud services, and operational workflows. The architect will work closely with mission owners, software teams, data professionals, cybersecurity personnel, testers, and infrastructure teams. 

This is a remote, part-time position supporting approximately 0.5 full-time-equivalent effort. Chicago-area candidates are preferred. 

Candidates must meet all the following requirements: 

• →Active Secret clearance or higher. 

• →Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent. 

• →Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience. 

• →Experience designing or implementing cloud architectures. 

• →Strong hands-on experience with Python or other approved application-development languages. 

• →Experience designing, developing, securing, and integrating APIs. 

• →Experience designing or implementing retrieval workflows. 

• →Experience with secure application integration. 

• →Experience designing or implementing AI agents or multi-step AI workflows. 

• →Ability to build knowledge assistants, retrieval-enabled applications, and bounded agentic capabilities. 

• →Experience implementing application authentication and authorization controls. 

• →Experience developing automated tests for applications, APIs, integrations, or AI workflows. 

• →Ability to implement source citations, tool permissions, exception handling, audit logging, and human approval steps. 

• →Understanding of cloud security, application security, identity and access management, data protection, and secure integration patterns. 

• →Ability to translate mission and operational requirements into secure, scalable, testable, and maintainable technical solutions. 

• →Ability to prepare and maintain architecture diagrams, interface documentation, technical designs, and operating guidance. 

• →Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical architecture, risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. 

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required: 

• Relevant cloud architecture certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or a comparable credential. 

• CISSP or CSSLP certification aligned with DoD 8570 IASAE Level II or applicable successor qualification requirements. 

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense programs. 

• Experience developing retrieval-augmented generation applications. 

• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, embeddings, document processing, or enterprise search platforms. 

• Experience with AI agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, or tool-calling architectures. 

• Experience implementing responsible AI controls, output validation, model monitoring, drift detection, or safeguards against unsupported responses. 

• Experience with cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, or managed AI platforms. 

• Experience with infrastructure as code, continuous integration and delivery, automated deployment, observability, and rollback automation. 

• Experience working with controlled unclassified information or systems operating in regulated cloud environments. 

• Familiarity with DoD Impact Level 4 or comparable Government cloud-security requirements. 

• Experience integrating AI capabilities with enterprise identity, data warehouse, business intelligence, knowledge management, or workflow platforms. 

• Cloud and AI solution architecture. 

• Python and secure application development. 

• API design and application integration. 

• Retrieval workflow and knowledge-assistant development. 

• Agentic workflow design and orchestration. 

• Authentication, authorization, and tool-permission design. 

• Automated testing and technical validation. 

• Audit logging, exception handling, and observability. 

• Secure data-pipeline and application-integration patterns. 

• Architecture documentation and technical communication. 

• Analytical troubleshooting and root-cause investigation. 

• Cross-functional collaboration with mission, software, data, security, testing, and operations teams. 

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
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