Senior Azure AI Solutions Architect / Engineer at GovCIO
Jackson, MS
$180,000–$220,000from the description
Aug 18, 2026
Jackson, MS
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior engineer/architect role at a federal IT services firm, responsible for designing and building enterprise Generative AI solutions on Microsoft Azure for a federal customer in the Washington, D.C. area. Day-to-day work centers on implementing RAG pipelines, document intelligence, semantic/vector search, and AI-assisted business process automation within existing enterprise systems. The role requires equal comfort with high-level architecture and direct, production-level development and integration work.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 850 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 450–1,100
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The clearance requirement is listed as 'Public Trust' — a federal suitability determination, not a formal US security clearance (Confidential/Secret/TS). Clearance is therefore set to None; hiring managers should note the Public Trust requirement separately.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … with 12 years or commensurate experience,' meaning equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a degree — degree is therefore not a hard gate.
The role's overall experience floor is stated as '8+ years of progressive experience'; the 12-year figure is tied to the degree substitution clause, not a standalone experience gate.
Python and Java are listed together as a single requirement ('Python and/or Java'); Python is captured as the primary skill with Java as an alternative. Java also appears separately under Preferred for Java-based enterprise application integration.
The 'vector embeddings and vector databases/search' requirement is captured as 'vector embeddings' — no specific vector database product is named in the required section.
Terraform appears only in the Preferred section under 'Infrastructure as Code'; it is listed as preferred accordingly.
Candidates located in the DC area are noted as 'highly preferred' but the role is explicitly fully remote — remote is set to true.
The alternative occupation reflects genuine ambiguity: the role blends senior software engineering with solution architecture; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is the closest runner-up given the AI architect framing, though the hands-on build mandate makes 15-1252 the stronger fit.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Azure AI Document Intelligence.
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