Position Title:              Program Manager - IT - Expert  (1636)
Location:                     Springfield, VA
Clearance Required:  Top Secret/SCI

Overall Assignment Description: Serve as an advisor to a Government-led team that:

• Enables:
  • Coordination across traditional & non-traditional collectors (commercial, unclassified sensing, mission partners).
  • Rapid evolution of advanced analytic algorithms, tools and tradecraft through concept development, prototypes, exercises and operational demonstrations.
  • Strategy alignment and draw on national-level experts to perform independent technical and program assessments in support of strategic objectives and major acquisition milestones.
• Provides acquisition strategy program management services to senior management.
• Evolves:
  • Service centric model that enables discoverable services, and data that can be flexibly delivered to mobile platforms at all classification levels.
  • IT strategies, concepts, standards, architectures and engineering roadmaps that reduce risk, inform policy and steer acquisition to help meet Agency’s long terms goal for the integrated intelligence environment.
• Maintains the enterprise architecture baseline and plans the approach to achieving new future architectures

 Duties may include:

• Influence the GEOINT strategy by enabling the coordination across traditional and non-traditional collectors, including commercial and unclassified sensing, and coordinating activities in a layered architecture approach across mission partners.
• Recommend approaches to advance analytic algorithms, tools, and tradecraft via concept development, prototypes, pilots and operational demonstrations.
• Guide the engineering path to the future Agency architecture.
• Define novel approaches to advancing an IT service-centric model that enables discoverable content, services and easy data delivery across multiple classification domains.
• Support strategy development, standards and engineering roadmaps that aide in risk reduction, inform policy and guide acquisition to meet Agency’s long-term strategic goals.
• Leverage unique knowledge, innovation and trusted Intelligence Community relationships to advise about technical strategies, architectures and future directions.
• Advise about new prototype and pathfinder approaches.
• Guide transition methods to emergent capabilities.
• Define approaches to improve IT efficiency, effectiveness and resilience in supporting the GEOINT mission.
• Recommend:
  • Enhancements to Agency’s analytic tradecraft in integrating new sources of information and exquisite capabilities into its operational environment.
  • Approaches to accelerate Agency’s shift towards commercial capabilities, open source data, persistent GEOINT, big data analytics, CLOUD and integrated intelligence.
  • Novel collection strategies that fully leverages available sources to enable persistence and advance processing and analytic capabilities for Agency.
• Assist Agency with forming tighter collaborative relationships with mission partners to align collection and achieve integrated mission intelligence.
• Provide technical, financial, schedule and risk management expertise and assistance to the project, program or Program Management Office (PMO).
• Recommend approaches to maintaining the existing architecture baseline and approaches to evolve to new future architectures.

Skills and Experience:
Required:

• Master’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field such as Physics, Aerospace, or Remote Sensing.
• 15 years demonstrated specialized experience in Information technology.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques.

Desired:

• Demonstrated specialized experience in any of the following:  
  • Supporting NSG sensor independent data, standards and algorithm integration.
  • GEOINT and MASINT or SAR processing and exploitation.
  • Coordinating activities in a layered architecture approach across mission partners.
  • Cloud infrastructure support.
  • Enterprise architecture and/or solutions architecture.
  • Proven and trusted Intelligence Community relationships.
  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification.
• Demonstrated specialized experience in any of the following: 
  • Analytic algorithms and big data, tools, and tradecraft via concept development, prototypes, pilots and operational demonstrations.
  • IT services and ITIL methodology.
  • Developing and working systems roadmaps and project plans.
  • Communication across all levels of the Agency and between Agencies.
  • Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management.

Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in Winchester, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff.

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