AI Solution Architect - FEMA ITSA

What You'll Get To Do as a AI Architect:

We are seeking a senior AI Solution Architect to evaluate how ready a federal agency's IT systems are for artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced analytics. You will identify responsible, high-value AI and automation opportunities, assess whether data is ready for them, and define the governance and risk considerations needed to adopt them safely. You will also support integration analysis so that recommendations reflect the real data flows and APIs that AI-enabled capabilities depend on. The role begins with an enterprise IT assessment and offers opportunities to support follow-on modernization and implementation work.

• Inventory and evaluate existing AI, machine learning, robotic process automation, and advanced analytics capabilities across the application portfolio.
• Identify opportunities for responsible use of AI and automation to improve service delivery, reduce manual processing, and strengthen fraud prevention.
• Assess data readiness for analytics and AI, including data quality, completeness, lineage, accessibility, labeling, and governance.
• Identify technical, architectural, data, policy, and workforce constraints that limit AI or automation adoption.
• Define governance, oversight, and risk considerations for AI-enabled functionality, including transparency, bias, privacy, security, and human oversight.
• Estimate the potential mission value of AI-enabled improvements and help prioritize use cases by impact, feasibility, and risk.
• Support analysis of upstream and downstream dependencies, data exchanges, and interfaces that AI and analytics solutions would rely on.
• Assess API availability and maturity, and secure data exchange and data mesh integration patterns, as they relate to AI and analytics use.
• Identify data standards, quality, and accessibility challenges, as well as manual workarounds and duplicative data entry that are candidates for automation.
• Contribute AI and automation considerations to modernization recommendations and the roadmap.