Solutions Architect Principal

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Technical Solutions

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

AI Agent Security, Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering Certifications:

None Experience:

8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT PRINCIPAL

Support mission-critical initiatives and enable the growth of our business as a Solutions Architect Principal at GDIT. Here, you’ll become an integral part of how GDIT is able to ensure the safety and security of our nation.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Solutions Architect Senior Advisor, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the New York State Department of Health Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) program. You will play a crucial role in designing and building the agentic AI systems that support the eMedNY enterprise at Corporate Woods in Albany, NY.

As the individual contributor for artificial intelligence and agentic engineering, you will be trusted to set the technical direction for how AI is designed, built, and governed across one of the nation’s largest Medicaid claims processing environments, under extremely stringent response-time and continuous-availability service level agreements and HIPAA/HITECH and FedRAMP compliance obligations. Your influence will come from the architectures you design, the reference implementations you ship, and the engineers you mentor. In this role, your responsibilities will be:

Architect, build, and operate multi-agent systems — planning, tool use, memory, and reflection loops — that run as governed, auditable, and reproducible steps inside the delivery pipeline

Design and implement the tool and context layer that agents depend on: Model Context Protocol servers, tool and output schemas, retrieval pipelines, and context engineering standards

Build the evaluation harness before the feature — eval sets, scoring rubrics, and regression suites that prove a non-deterministic system improved rather than assert it

Own performance, cost, and reliability for AI workloads: tracing, token and spend budgets, model selection and routing, fallback behavior, and caching

Establish the guardrail and safety architecture — PHI stage gates, prompt injection and data exfiltration defenses, least-privilege tool scoping, and human-in-the-loop approval checkpoints

Evaluate models, frameworks, and vendors on evidence: run bake-offs, publish results honestly, name lock-in and failure modes, and recommend against adoption when warranted

Produce the architecture others build from — reference architectures, interface requirement documents, design patterns, and decision records — and defend it in architecture review boards

Raise the engineering organization’s ceiling through pairing, design review, and the standards governing how the program applies AI to protected health information

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your initiative and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Solutions Architect Principal must have:

Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field; an advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Artificial Intelligence preferred

Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering or systems architecture experience, including 1+ year building and operating production large language model systems, with at least one agentic system taken to production and supported afterward

· Technical Skills:

Python at expert level, plus working fluency in a second language such as TypeScript, Java, Go, or Rust

Agentic patterns and runtimes: tool and function calling, Model Context Protocol, structured output, multi-agent orchestration, durable state, and human-in-the-loop control flow

Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, and agentic coding harnesses such as Claude Code

Retrieval-augmented generation: embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and vector stores such as pgvector or Amazon OpenSearch

Evaluation and observability for non-deterministic systems; AWS cloud-native services, containers, Terraform / Terragrunt, and GitLab CI/CD

AI security and compliance: prompt injection, insecure output handling, PHI leakage prevention, HIPAA/HITECH, NIST AI RMF, and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications

Role Requirements:

A computer science foundation strong enough to transfer — proven ability to pick up a framework that did not exist six months ago, read its source, judge production-readiness, and put it to work

A demonstrated record of rapid self-directed learning; be prepared to name a technology you took from unfamiliar to production within a year and explain how

Engineering judgment and intellectual honesty about AI — able to tell a demo from a system, quantify where a model is unreliable, and tell leadership when the answer is “not yet”

Comfort working without an established playbook, and willingness to create the standards, tooling, and documentation that do not yet exist

Rigorous reasoning about determinism and blast radius: which decisions an agent may make autonomously, which require human approval, and which must never be delegated to a model at all

Excellent technical writing, and the ability to work directly with non-technical program and client stakeholders

Effectiveness as an individual contributor, influencing through architecture, reference implementations, and mentorship

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Preferred Requirements:

Open-source contributions to AI or agent tooling, published evaluations, or technical writing in the agentic engineering space

Healthcare or Medicaid/MMIS domain experience, including X12 EDI transaction sets and HL7 FHIR

Certifications such as AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or CISSP

· Location: Hybrid if local to the Albany, NY area or 100% Remote

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT,

the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. ● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

● Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your sense of ownership and pride in the meaningful work we do.

The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

T elecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA NY Albany

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critica