Senior Data Scientist – Agentic AI & Multi-Cloud Architecture - Active Top Secret Clearance at Akima
North Charleston, SC
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Jul 27, 2026
North Charleston, SC
Jul 29, 2026
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A senior technical lead role supporting Department of Defense digital modernization under the PEO Digital portfolio, focused on architecting and building enterprise-scale Agentic AI systems that run across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises environments at IL5 security levels. The work spans multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, LLM deployment, containerized AI services, and multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure, with responsibility for mentoring junior staff and advising government stakeholders.
Senior level · 10+ years · Charleston-North Charleston, SC · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $94,013 (middle half $80,277–$126,604).
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Why we read it this way (8)
The posting requires an active Top Secret clearance as a hard gate; it does not specify TS/SCI, so TopSecret (not TopSecretSci) is used. The preferred qualifications also mention 'Active Secret Clearance or higher,' which is weaker than the required TS.
The role is classified as hybrid (not fully remote), requiring the candidate to live within commuting distance of North Charleston, SC.
The 10+ years of professional experience and 5+ years designing enterprise AI/ML solutions are stated in the required qualifications section. The 10-year figure is used as the overall years minimum as the broader gate.
Agentic AI orchestration frameworks (Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI) appear in the responsibilities narrative and are listed as preferred qualifications — they are marked preferred accordingly.
RAG, vector databases, IL5 environment experience, and open-weight LLM deployment all appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked preferred.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects the substantial software engineering, cloud architecture, and containerization work described; however, the title, required qualifications, and primary framing center on Data Science and ML, so 15-2051 is the primary classification.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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