Principal Data & ML Ops Architect

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $170k - $174k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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ICA, Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Logistics • Marketing

ICA, Inc. is a trusted partner and innovative force in transforming public health through advanced data, technology, and close collaboration with federal agencies. The company specializes in driving transformational changes through biomedical research, enhancing public health initiatives, and supporting critical research acceleration with NextGen solutions. With a focus on advanced data analytics, AI deployment, and healthcare research, ICA empowers federal agencies to achieve their missions and deliver better health outcomes. As a participant in the SBA 8(a) business development program, ICA is eligible for sole-source and competitive set-aside contracts, particularly excelling in the domains of management, advisory, and research and development.

📋 Description

• Architect large-scale data and document-processing platforms, from ingestion through downstream consumption • Design robust patterns for document parsing, extraction, normalization, validation, storage, search, human review, and reprocessing • Establish standards for schemas, metadata, lineage, provenance, data quality, reproducibility, and auditability • Design reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines using APIs, files, batch processing, and streaming where appropriate • Create platform patterns that enable Data Science and AI prototypes to become secure, maintainable production solutions • Architect data and retrieval foundations supporting RAG, analytics, AI workflows, evaluation, and feedback loops • Make architecture decisions involving scalability, reliability, security, privacy, cost, and operational complexity • Lead technical design reviews, investigate production failures, mentor engineers, and work across Data Engineering, Data Science, DevOps/MLOps, Product, Security, and client teams • Review and develop Python, SQL, schemas, APIs, and production data pipelines

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience architecting and owning production data platforms or distributed data systems • Strong Python, SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, workflow orchestration, and cloud-data-platform experience • Significant experience with unstructured data or document-processing systems at scale • Strong understanding of metadata, schema evolution, lineage, provenance, data quality, observability, retries, replay, backfills, and recovery • Experience designing systems with sensitive-data controls, governance, access management, and audit requirements • Strong understanding of how modern AI/ML and retrieval systems depend on production data architecture • Demonstrated technical judgment, ownership, problem solving, and ability to challenge fragile or overly complex designs • Strong technical communication and decision-making skills • Must be authorized to work in the United States and have lived in the US for 3 or more consecutive years • Must be able and willing to obtain a Public Trust Clearance • Experience in healthcare, life sciences, government, regulated industries, PHI/PII, or GDPR environments is valuable, but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Insurance - 100% employer-paid premiums – ICA covers the full cost of one of three offered medical plans • Dental Insurance • Vision insurance • Health Spending Account • Flexible Spending Account • Life and Disability insurance • 401(k) plan with company match • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Leave and Holidays) • Education and Professional Development Assistance • Remote work from anywhere within the continental United States