Director of Operations, Cybersecurity Programs at Frontier Technology Inc.

Dallas, Texas, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

30 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

30 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Cybersecurity, Operations, Leadership, Client Focus, Collaboration, Communication, Accountability, Achievement Orientation, Revenue Management, Customer Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Program Management, Risk Management, Technical Background, Team Leadership

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Description

Overview The Director of Operations, Cybersecurity Programs will be responsible for driving growth and business execution across DoD domains (land, sea, air, space, and cyber) with a strong emphasis on Cyber markets. This role requires delivering on customer requirements while achieving company business and financial objectives. The Director will be accountable for building and maintaining strategic relationships with key customer personnel, including decision makers, influencers, and end users, who directly impact program success. They will also provide oversight for projects and program teams within their portfolio, ensuring both tactical execution and strategic alignment. The ideal candidate will bring proven experience managing operational delivery in an integrated environment that connects program teams with other business units and functional organizations. Competencies: Ensuring Accountability: Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability, and creating an infrastructure and transparent corporate culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility and accountability. Establishes systems and processes for ensuring accountability: Broadly communicates relevant standards, codes and legislation and consequences for non-compliance. Establishes monitoring systems that respect the full accountability of teams and are limited to the most critical risks. Establishes organizational systems for: defining authorities / responsibilities; tracking, monitoring and measuring success; assessing and managing risk; etc. Establishes performance metrics to help understand how individuals, teams, and the whole organization are doing relative to the objectives. Holds other leaders accountable for giving individuals/teams the freedom in deciding how to get work done. Addresses systemic barriers that undermine personal and team accountability. Achievement Orientation: Focusing efforts on achieving high quality results consistent that meet or exceed standard expectations. Improves organizational performance: Sets highly challenging and attainable goals for own organizational area. Assesses group performance against goals to identify areas for improvement. Improves inefficient/ineffective work processes. Uses positive motivational approaches, tailored to diverse individuals and groups, to help staff improve performance, maximize results, and minimize risk. Fostering Communication: Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and building consensus. Adapts communication: Tailors communication (e.g., content, style and medium) to diverse audiences. Reads cues from diverse listeners to assess when and how to change planned communication approach to effectively deliver message. Communicates with all organizational levels. Understands others' complex or underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns, communicating effectively despite the sensitivity of the situation. Team Leadership: Assuming a leadership role in helping others achieve excellent results. Builds strong teams: Addresses gaps in team expertise. Resolves conflict among team members through fair procedures, respecting each person's feelings. Delegates authority to match responsibility, holding staff accountable for agreed upon commitments. Supports staff in taking independent action, providing coaching along the way. Delegates responsibility rather than taking charge or micro-managing when staff have the capability. Collaborating with Others: Working together with others in a cooperative and supportive manner to achieve shared goals. Fosters collaboration: Gives credit and acknowledgement for contributions and efforts of others. Provides constructive feedback to others. Helps build consensus among members of groups. Provides opportunities for all group members to contribute to group discussions. Client Focus: Providing service excellence to internal and/or external clients. Provides added value: Looks for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests. Addresses the unidentified, underlying and long-term client needs. Enhances client service delivery systems and processes. Anticipates clients' upcoming needs and concerns. Revenue and Profitability Management: Managing the revenue stream, using internal (organizational) and external (industry, market) sources of information to achieve the organization's chosen value proposition and maximize profitability. Applies the competency in the full range of typical situations, requiring guidance in only the most complex or new situations: Identifies business issues and opportunities by analyzing financial and non-financial data at the transaction level in the organization. Achieves revenue management goals within own department or functional area. Performs profitability analyses, and makes recommendations to support short- and long-term decisions (e.g. break-even, relevant cost, contribution margin, linear programming, etc.). Customer Relationship Management: Analyzing, coordinating and supporting integrated sales, marketing and customer support functions, internal audit, internal controls, risk management, regulatory compliance and reporting. Applies the competency in the full range of typical situations, requiring guidance in only the most complex or new situations: Addresses the unidentified, underlying and long-term customer needs and concerns. Recommends improvements to customer service delivery systems and processes. Gathers intelligence related to the wants and needs of current and targeted customers. Provides support and counsel to business functions who are incorporating customer experience strategies into CRM business processes. Educates internal staff on customer experience concepts, value proposition, and processes. Responsibilities Lead and execute operational changes to achieve customer and business goals while improving profitability. Maintain a deep and ongoing understanding of FTI's capabilities and ensure those capabilities are imbedded into current and future programs, as well as being aligned with our customer requirements. Responsible for Cyber business development efforts that align with new and organic growth targets; leveraging relationships, market insights, and understanding of mission priorities across the DoD. Participate in the development of a strategy to achieve short- and long-term business objectives. Monitor operational performance against budget. Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. Manage business requirements including performance metrics related to the customer’s mission. Manage and oversee the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Ensure that program teams have appropriate leadership and administrative structures in place to ensure the success of FTI Cyber operations. Direct the execution of a broad functional area, providing leadership for next level management to deliver customer mission requirements. Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the customer mission and FTI technology. Participate in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs and people. Regularly interface with FTI executive team along with customer decision makers and influencers. Education/Qualifications Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active TS security clearance ; TS/SCI preferred. Bachelor’s Degree required; MBA or advanced technical degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or Computer Science preferred (may substitute experience for requirements). 8–10 years of progressive experience leading large, complex cyber programs in a DoD/federal government environment with revenue of $30–$50M. 8–10 years of experience leading complex multi-functional cyber teams with 50 or more employees. 8–10 years of progress experience in cybersecurity strategy, operations, and compliance within the DoD domain. 8–10 years of Technical or operational background in one or more of the following areas: offensive cyber operations, cyber intelligence, cyber frameworks and infrastructure, defensive cyber capabilities, or information assurance. Proven ability to manage and control the planning, staffing, budgeting and prioritization of investments to deliver FTI and customer results. DAWIA Level II (or higher) and/or PMP preferred. #LI-KM1 #LI-Remote

Responsibilities

The Director of Operations will lead operational changes to meet customer and business goals while enhancing profitability. They will also oversee the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in Cyber operations.