PROJECT MANAGER

Workplace: Remote (preference for candidates in the National Capital Region - NCR)
Clearance Required: must have an active Secret clearance

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Supports the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer’s (CDAO) Mission Analytics / Core Analytics Products, Search Products Portfolio, and Unstructured Data Search Enhanced by AI/ML (UD/SEAM).

Major Duties/Tasks:

• Assists with planning, developing, testing, and documenting Search Portfolio products.
• Applies business process improvement practices, modernizing projects, acquisition

process/planning, and reengineering old methodologies and principles.

• Support agency teams in development and management of milestones, goals, and

deliverables for each of the Search Portfolio products

• Coordinating and rationalizing CDAO’s technical efforts to support AI/ML enabled

indexing, search, and augmented retrieval of unstructured data sets.

• Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design

patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.

• Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies.
• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance

standards.

• Works with mission teams to engage with potential customers within the DOD and

identifies and evaluates prospective projects

REQUIREMENTS:

Required Education:

• At minimum, have a math, science, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, operations research, project management or engineering undergraduate degree from an accredited U.S. University (or equivalent) plus 5-7 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 3 years of experience.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, tools, and with the

Product Owner role within the Scaled Agile Framework.

• Ability to identify key users and non-customer stakeholders, as well as to balancing the

needs of all product stakeholders.

• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests and turn those into user

stories and tasks for a product backlog.

• Experience grooming and prioritizing SCRUM team backlogs
• Ability to coordinate product backlogs across development teams to effectively share

subject matter experts, ensuring all product teams maintain velocity.

• Ability to analyze and recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and

facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.

• DevSecOps experience, knowledge of CI/CD tooling.
• Experience working with software and data engineers developing products integrating

containerized environments.

• Experience working with software engineers and data scientists utilizing distributed

computing environments for AI/ML and Big Data workloads, such as Apache Spark or

Databricks

• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services and current front-end

frameworks used by the development teams.

• Track record of active learning and creative problem solving
• Experience with multi-intelligence and multi-domain systems and understanding

of current object and activity-based models in the community.

Major Duties/Tasks:

• Assists with planning, developing, testing, and documenting Search Portfolio products.
• Applies business process improvement practices, modernizing projects, acquisitio

Product Owner role within the Scaled Agile Framework.

• Ability to identify key users and non-customer stakeholders, as well as to balancing th

stories and tasks for a product backlog.

• Experience grooming and prioritizing SCRUM team backlogs
• Ability to coordinate product backlogs across development teams to effectively shar