Systems Architect

Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent. Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us. Barbaricum is seeking a Systems Architect to support the Department of Defense's Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) in accelerating the DoD's adoption of data, analytics, and AI. This role will be essential in analyzing and assessing software development and data acquisition requirements, optimizing software designs, and developing scalable solutions to meet mission-critical needs. Responsibilities Analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions Support and work with a hybrid team of analysts, engineers, and developers to conduct research, build, and deploy complex but easy-to-use analytical capabilities, and devise a plan for development Collaborate with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound designs that form the basis of scalable solutions Optimize software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devise tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics Qualifications Active DoD Secret Clearance required Bachelor's degree with 7-10 years of experience, or a Master's degree with 5 years of experience Significant experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R, and proficient in one or more big data programming languages, such as Python or Java AI/ML model development, containerization, and productization experience Knowledge Graph construction and reasoning experience, including experience with property graph or RDF model frameworks Experience with Elasticsearch and related indexing technologies Previous experience performing research in Data Analytics or Big Data Significant data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes Experience dealing with open source, publicly available information (PAI) data sources and/or forensic media (i.e., DOMEX) Previous experience developing predictive algorithms Experience supporting cybersecurity or network security operations Familiarity with social network analysis, supply chain analysis, forensic accounting, pattern of life, natural language processing, social media analysis, classification algorithms, and/or image processing Experience blending analytical methodologies and leveraging existing COTS/GOTS/OS tools in unconventional manners Additional Information For more information about Barbaricum, please visit our website at www.barbaricum.com. We will contact candidates directly to schedule interviews. No phone calls please.