Data Solutions Architect

The Opportunity

RS&H is seeking an experienced Data Solutions Architect to design and deliver secure, scalable, and client-focused data and artificial intelligence solutions across our aviation, federal, transportation, aerospace, health and science, and corporate market sectors.

In this highly influential technical role, you will transform complex and inconsistent data into trusted pipelines, analytical models, predictive solutions, and visualizations that support critical client decisions. You will also identify recurring market needs and help turn early-stage concepts into configurable, production-ready digital offerings. The majority of this role focuses on advancing data and AI solutions from concept through requirements, architecture, development, testing, validation, and deployment. You will establish technical standards, strengthen data governance and model lifecycle practices, and lead a community of practice that builds data capabilities across the organization. This position has no direct reports but provides authoritative technical direction, guidance, and mentorship to project teams, architects, engineers, and junior staff.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design and Deliver Data and AI Solutions
  • Lead the development of data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and visualization offerings, supporting solution scoping, client pursuits, production-grade delivery, governance, and data-practice enablement.
  • Translate challenges in buildings, infrastructure, and construction management into reusable data and AI products with clearly defined interfaces and service levels.
  • Design reusable solutions using application programming interfaces (APIs), event streams, curated datasets, feature stores, and visualization layers.
  • Prepare system diagrams, architecture decision records, data contracts, reference implementations, and build-versus-buy recommendations.
  • Architect geospatial intelligence solutions that integrate geographic information system (GIS) data, two-dimensional drawings, three-dimensional models, operational information, and sensor data.
  • Develop and deploy analytical and predictive models using time-series forecasting, causal inference, ensemble methods, and other machine learning techniques.
  • Create and operationalize interactive dashboards, analytical interfaces, and visualizations using Power BI and related tools.
  • Translate model outputs and statistical findings into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Advance associate-developed generative AI prototypes into secure, reliable, production-ready solutions.
  • Establish data quality requirements, validation processes, and remediation approaches as solutions move from development into production.
  • Incorporate data ownership, stewardship, lineage, quality, access controls, and model lifecycle management throughout solution development.
  • Design solutions that address architecture, engineering, construction, and public-sector requirements, including Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), NIST 800-171, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), client data isolation, operational technology and information technology separation, and Microsoft Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) environments.
  • Develop reusable accelerators, including templates, schemas, connectors, evaluation frameworks, automated validation processes, authorization workflows, and infrastructure provisioning components.
  • Evaluate new ideas against defined advancement criteria and help teams shape concepts into viable data and AI offerings.
  • Collaborate with legal, finance, business subject matter experts, developers, and multidisciplinary product teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Scope End-to-End Solutions
  • Lead and participate in client and stakeholder discovery sessions.
  • Translate business needs and analytical questions into complete digital solution definitions.
  • Develop statements of work, concepts of operations, requirements, technical approaches, levels of effort, resource plans, and delivery schedules.
  • Facilitate meetings and workshops that advance concepts into products or services.
  • Define the analytical, geospatial intelligence, digital twin data, and visualization approaches used within each solution.
  • Develop technical content for proposals, presentations, and pursuit teams.
  • Support client-facing consulting engagements from initial concept and scoping through implementation and delivery.
• Technical Leadership and Enablement
  • Lead the Data Community of Practice to support knowledge sharing, technical discussions, capability development, data product practices, data quality, and medallion architecture principles.
  • Establish analytical standards, validation methods, governance practices, and model lifecycle processes.
  • Communicate technical architectures, data structures, solution benefits, limitations, and recommendations in clear business terms.
  • Present digital solution concepts and technical strategies to executive leadership and client stakeholders.
  • Mentor architects and engineers in applied data science, model deployment, geospatial analysis, time-series forecasting, digital twin data workflows, and production-grade data practices.
  • Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary project teams without direct supervisory responsibility.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Geography, or a related quantitative or technical discipline.
• Fifteen (15) or more years of experience in applied data science, analytics engineering, data architecture, or a related discipline.
• Full lifecycle experience developing data products, including concept development, requirements, architecture, model development, validation, deployment, and production support.
• At least five (5) years of experience in client-facing consulting or professional services, including proposing, scoping, and delivering analytical solutions.
• Current certification in a relevant technology domain or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Mastery of the Python data science ecosystem, including pandas, Polars, NumPy, and SciPy.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and R.
• Expert knowledge of statistical modeling and machine learning frameworks, including scikit-learn, statsmodels, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
• Demonstrated expertise in time-series forecasting, causal inference, feature engineering, and sampling or resampling techniques for imbalanced or sparse data.
• Strong experience with geospatial analytics and LiDAR processing using tools such as ArcGIS, PostGIS, GeoPandas, GDAL/OGR, and PDAL.
• Experience working with vector, raster, point-cloud, sensor, and operational data.
• Deep experience with MLOps and model lifecycle management, including containerization, orchestration, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), experiment tracking, model monitoring, drift detection, and production deployment.
• Experience deploying cloud-based solutions using Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Advanced proficiency in interactive data visualization and dashboard development using Power BI, Tableau, Plotly/Dash, or geospatial visualization tools.
• Advanced knowledge of responsible AI, data governance, bias detection and mitigation, model explainability, uncertainty quantification, and statistical reliability in regulated environments.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical methods, results, limitations, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

**Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States permanently. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or visa transfer.**

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Geography, or a related field.
• Experience productizing prototypes, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery and lean product incubation processes.
• Domain experience in transportation, aviation, buildings, or construction operations.
• Experience with traffic sensors, tolling systems, building automation systems, building information modeling (BIM), virtual design and construction (VDC), or facility telemetry.
• Background in digital simulation environments, operational technology integration, or AI applications for infrastructure systems.
• Familiarity with foundation model fine-tuning or multimodal modeling involving imagery, geospatial data, text, and sensor data.

Why Join Us

• Apply your work to problems that matter. The solutions you build support critical infrastructure, facilities, transportation systems, and public programs that communities depend on every day.
• Bring your own ideas forward. This is a venture environment within an established employee-owned firm where you can identify opportunities, build business cases, and help transform concepts into scalable market-ready solutions
• Influence enterprise technology strategy. Help establish a trusted data foundation that enables innovation, operational excellence, and informed decision-making across the organization.
• Lead through technical expertise. Set standards, guide solution architecture, mentor colleagues, and strengthen data and AI capabilities across the firm.
• Share in what you help build. RS&H is employee-owned, and associates share in the success of the firm they create.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Please note: no agency representation or submissions will be recognized for this vacancy. Candidates should apply directly to this role to be considered. It is the responsibility of all third-party recruiting and employment agencies to know and adhere to our recruiting policy.

The Company

Employee-owned, RS&H is one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and consulting firms, with associates who work hard every day to create tomorrow together. We offer an exceptional journey from start to future. Our integrated teams translate experience into insight, turn challenges into opportunities, and build relationships that are as strong as the buildings and infrastructure we deliver together. We attribute our success to our unwavering commitment to our core values: integrity, accountability, curiosity, and teamwork.

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