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🌽 Illinois – Remote

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💵 $132k - $140k / year

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Diversified Services Network, Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1989

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Government • Healthcare

Diversified Services Network, Inc. is a consulting and technology services firm that provides government and private-sector clients with tailored solutions to address complex operational, technical, and programmatic challenges. With more than three decades of experience, DSN offers health and human services consulting (including Medicaid, SNAP, and TANF policy and program support), public-sector fiscal consulting (cost allocation plans, federal claiming, random moment time study), grants sourcing and management, information technology services (IV&V, software and application development, systems integration), project and program management, business process reengineering, and staffing and recruiting services. DSN focuses on public-sector clients (federal, state, county, city) and private enterprises across industries such as construction, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and utilities, emphasizing a people-first approach and measurable operational improvements.

📋 Description

• Own and define solution and platform architectures for large-scale, distributed systems from concept through production • Create architecture meeting standards for scalability, performance, resilience, and security • Assess, select, and introduce new technologies, including proof-of-concept development and architectural spikes • Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across platform teams • Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineering teams • Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements • Produce and maintain architecture documentation, including rationale and trade-offs • Evolve platform architecture to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and cost efficiency • Partner with business leaders, product owners, engineering managers, and delivery teams to align architecture with business outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in this capacity • Ability to decompose complex problem spaces and develop pragmatic architecture options with clearly articulated trade-offs • Ability to influence without authority and guide teams through architectural decisions and implementation challenges • Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to translate business and non-functional requirements into scalable technical designs • Strong foundation in modern application and platform architectures using established patterns and standards • Experience defining AI reference architectures and standards for enterprise adoption • Ability to explain and defend trade-offs between classical ML, LLM-based approaches, and non-AI solutions • Experience taking AI systems from proof of concept to scaled production use • Strong programming background in Python and Java, with ability to reason at code level • Experience designing and building enterprise-scale, distributed systems • Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, AWS services, Docker, and Kubernetes • Deep understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, Snowflake, data modeling, replication, and sharding • Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated testing • Strong REST, GraphQL, and gRPC API design experience, including versioning and documentation • Hands-on experience designing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures • Experience with data ingestion pipelines, document preprocessing, chunking strategies, vectorization, embedding models, retrieval, ranking, and context assembly • Understanding of embedding techniques, similarity search, vector dimensions, chunk size and overlap, latency, recall, and cost trade-offs • Experience with vector databases and search layers • Experience with agentic frameworks • Experience with prompt design and versioning, context management, memory patterns, model routing, and fallback strategies • Knowledge of LLM lifecycle considerations, including model selection, fine-tuning, RAG, hybrid approaches, evaluation, monitoring, and drift detection • Understanding of AI performance, latency, cost controls, token efficiency, security, data privacy, and guardrails • Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise platforms via APIs and event-driven architectures • Ability to assess, prototype, and productionize emerging AI technologies

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) • Dental insurance • Vision Insurance • Disability insurance • Employee assistance program • Health insurance • Health savings account • Life insurance • Paid time off • Paid Holidays • Full benefits