AI/DevSecOps Installation Architect

NetImpact Strategies is seeking an AI/DevSecOps Installation Architect to join our Product Team. This role serves as a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, integrating, and delivering innovative AI-enabled solutions that accelerate digital transformation across Federal Government organizations. As a key member of the AI Forge Product Team, the Architect will define technical strategy, establish enterprise integration patterns, and guide the development of scalable solutions that leverage artificial intelligence, automation, and modern cloud technologies. This individual will collaborate with product managers, engineers, data architects, and client stakeholders to design secure, scalable, and mission-focused solutions that enable agencies to maximize the value of AI-powered capabilities. The Technical Architect will play a critical role in shaping the AI Forge product roadmap and ensuring seamless interoperability across complex enterprise environments.

Typical Responsibilities Include:

- Lead product installations for customers

- Serve as lead for the technical team, leveraging experience and judgment to resolve issues as a point of escalation. These discussions may entail:

- Identifying strategies to create better collaboration among developers, testers, project managers, and users, using development methods and automated practices

- Creating/implementing innovative technical solutions within budget/timelines that prove successful (metrics/feedback) to alleviate manual workload and burden

- Define the system, technical, and application architectures for critical areas of development and recommend a course of action to maintain cost-effectiveness and competitiveness

- Provide hands-on support for agile development, defect/bug triage, and fixes while ensuring long-term technical sustainability and architectural soundness:

- Leading Sprint retrospectives

- Supporting peer and management code reviews

- Participate in business and technical requirement sessions

- Provide technical estimates and a rough level of effort (SWAG)

- Work effectively and efficiently on tight deadlines as necessary

- Perform code reviews for functional accuracy and alignment with best practices, or develop Best Practices unique to the technology stack and customer environment

- Stay up to date on business initiatives and objectives, particularly infrastructure and development architecture issues.

- Research and implement best practices frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and increase the predictability of service delivery.

- Develop Proof of Concept prototypes to demonstrate the value or benefits of new technologies and processes, e.g.:

- Improving quality and reducing effort for development testing, including the creation of test cases and automating tests

- Provide technical inputs in an understandable format for Senior Executive briefings and other reports, including:

- Delivering complex presentations or demos to describe functional changes or requirements released with the latest package or image

- Team performance based on task completion, challenges, issues, and status using a centralized requirements management tool

- State of progress against strategic roadmap, both technical and business

- Work with Functional SMEs and Developers to estimate the level of effort (LOE) of requirements and design solutions or development tasks that meet short-term and long-term needs using comprehensive, realistic, and effective plans

- Recognize problems or situations that are new or without clear precedent; evaluate alternatives and recommend solutions using a systematic, multi-step approach based on LOE and impact assessments

- Regularly review and provide LOE estimation inputs to the application backlog as a part of continuous backlog grooming, support technical design discussions, and provide inputs during Sprint grooming to release features

- Support user acceptance testing and demos and participate in code reviews, as required