Senior Technical Lead

Ignite IT Hub is seeking a senior Technical Lead to guide a multidisciplinary team supporting the U.S. Census Bureau's LLM Autocoder. The system converts survey write-in responses into standardized codes. Reporting to the Contract Project Manager, you will lead hands-on technical delivery, sustain American Community Survey (ACS) operations, and coordinate enhancements and expansion to other surveys and demographic projects.

Responsibilities

• Translate Government priorities into clear technical tasks, acceptance criteria, estimates, dependencies, and delivery plans with the Project Manager.

• Guide architecture, method selection, and integration across data science, AI/ML engineering, MLOps, and evaluation while contributing to code reviews and troubleshooting.

• Coordinate production issue resolution, assess mission impact, remove technical blockers, and turn recurring problems into planned improvements.

• Lead design and peer reviews. Verify test evidence, security and privacy controls, documentation, and rollback readiness before recommending Government approval of production changes.

• Coordinate pilots and model improvements using baseline comparisons, agreed performance thresholds, and review with Government subject matter experts.

• Explain technical findings, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to Government technical staff and leadership; escalate delivery and capacity concerns promptly.

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