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

Company Description

Oteemo is an industry-leading technology consulting firm at the forefront of AI-driven, cloud native, enterprise DevSecOps transformation. We build intelligent, automated, secure systems for organizations tackling their toughest technical and business challenges and we're pushing the boundaries of what AI, generative AI, and agentic systems can do in production, not just in theory. Join us and you'll work alongside recognized experts on cutting-edge projects that blend cloud native architecture, extreme automation, and AI/ML at the core. We foster a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative culture built on continuous learning, where your ideas shape real outcomes for our clients. If you're passionate about building what's next in AI and cloud technology and want to do it with a team that sets the standard rather than follows it, Oteemo is where you belong.

Job 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.

Qualifications

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.

Additional Information

We Value:

• 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

What we offer:

• Ability to make a noticeable difference for the organization and our customers
• Tremendous growth opportunity by becoming part of a rapidly growing organization. It’s not your tenure but what you can bring to the table that defines how your career will be shaped. You control your growth.
• Complex but interesting challenges to improve the depth and breadth of your technical and business skills. Our consultants are business technologists and understand how technology drives business. 
• Competitive pay and benefits

Work authorization requirement: US Citizen-Interim or Active Secret Clearance a must! 

Oteemo is an equal employment and affirmative action employer. We evaluate qualified applicants on merit and business needs and not on race, color, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other factor protected by law. Oteemo complies with the law regarding reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled employees.