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PRISM is seeking a Lead AI Architect who will serve as the primary technical subject matter expert for the design, deployment, governance, and optimization of the agency's Al ecosystem, ensuring alignment with mission objectives, security mandates, and compliance requirements. This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days on site in Washington, D.C.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise Al Architecture & Operations: The Lead Al Architect shall assist with architecting, designing, implementing, and managing a secure, compliant, and scalable enterprise Al environment supporting agency-wide mission needs. Assist with oversight of foundational setup, configuration, security hardening, and ongoing operational management of all Al platforms and services.
The Lead Al Architect shall serve as the technical lead responsible for assisting CFTC with architecting, securing, integrating, and operationalizing all components of the agency's Al ecosystem, ensuring alignment with:

• Enterprise governance frameworks

• Cybersecurity requirements

• Privacy standards

• Data classification policies

• Architectural compliance with federal security, privacy, and governance standards.

Additionally, the AI Architect shall:

• Develop and maintain detailed, visually clear architecture diagrams that represent the design, flow, and integration of Al-based systems within the enterprise ecosystem.

• Assist CFTC with the management of Al solution deployment lifecycles, recommend updates, submit change requests, maintain current versioning, and assist with vulnerability mitigation within the Commission's service level agreements.

The Lead Al Architect shall collaborate with CFTC technical teams, mission owners, agency leadership and governance bodies to design, refine, and optimize Al-enabled solutions, workflows, and operational processes, establish prompt engineering standards, refine use cases and develop evaluation methodologies, and identify measurable mission benefits.

Performance Measurement, Optimization, Enhancement, Adoption:Assist CFTC with establishing, implementing, and managing a comprehensive Al Performance and ROl Measurement Framework across all deployed Al capabilities. Ensure solutions deliver demonstrable value aligned with agency mission outcomes.
Provide recommendations for continuous improvement of deployed Al capabilities, including model refinement and prompt enhancement, model exchange strategies, and performance tuning and long-term capability maturation.
The Al Lead shall support and strengthen agency-wide Al adoption initiatives, including the Al Community of Practice and the Al Ambassador Program, by contributing technical expertise, mentoring participants, and helping drive a culture of responsible and effective Al use.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (SKILLS/EDUCATION):

• Demonstrated experience architecting and managing enterprise Al environments in secure, regulated environments.

• Demonstrated, hands-on expertise with Azure Al Foundry, including deploying Al solutions, configuring agentic workflows, managing evaluation pipelines, and operationalizing production-grade Al capabilities. Demonstrated experience deploying/configuring/operating Al solutions using Azure Al Foundry including model orchestration and evaluation pipelines, deployment patterns and retrieval augmented generation (RAG), data integrations and responsible Al controls, and design, deployment, and management of Agentic Al systems (Al Agents), including multi-step workflow agents, tool-using agents, and autonomous orchestration patterns supported by Azure Al Foundry.

• Demonstrated experience transforming business use cases into deployed Al solutions, including gathering and analyzing requirements, selecting the appropriate technologies, designing the solution architecture, and delivering a fully implemented and operational capability.

• Significant experience with the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, including M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Security Copilot, and integration with Azufe data, security, and identity services.

• Demonstrated experience in Al governance, compliance, and responsible Al practices, ensuring all solutions adhere to enterprise controls and regulatory requirements.

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and change-management skills, enabling smooth adoption and sustained use of AI capabilities across the agency. ????

REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Ability to obtain a Public Trust 

PRISM is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.