Deputy SEAS Manager - Engineering & Architecture Services, TS/SCI (Springfield, VA)

This position will require U.S. Citizenship and an active DoD TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph. This position is onsite with our government customer in Springfield, VA.

The Deputy SEAS Manager assists the SEAS Manager with leading multi-disciplinary projects and activities within the OCIO SEAS office. The Deputy SEAS Manager provides overarching support to the department's leadership, architects, and engineers by helping to facilitate day-to-day operations as well as long-term initiatives.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Leading multidisciplinary project teams, tiger teams, and working groups focused on new or improved technological solutions.
• Developing and managing project schedules, milestones, resources, and tasks to align project velocity with target delivery dates.
• Collecting, defining, refining, and tracking requirements throughout the systems development lifecycle.
• Working with engineers to draft test plans and strategies to ensure high quality products are delivered in accordance with customer expectations.
• Assisting architects and engineers with documenting and implementing foundational elements that standardize system design and delivery.
• Evaluating existing SEAS processes and providing recommendations that improve efficiency in accordance with applicable OCIO governance processes.
• Participating in engagements and promoting communication between between OCIO departments, partners, stakeholders, and end users.
• Developing and maintaining formal documentation for technical and functional technologies and processes (i.e., SOPs, charters, policies, workflows, manuals, CONOPs, RACIs, SLAs, etc.).
• Delivering and presenting briefings, statuses, schedules, and progress to SEAS and OCIO leadership.
• Performing other duties as assigned by the SEAS Manager.

Position Requirements:

• Shall have 5 or more years of progressive, hands-on experience architecting, engineering, administering, and/or managing security enterprise information system projects in one or more of the following areas: endpoints, networks, servers, virtualization, storage, software, cybersecurity, or cloud.
• Demonstrated proficiency and expertise in the following areas:
• Leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex projects in accordance with the project management framework, Scrum, Agile, or similar methodology.
• Understanding of systems development lifecycle methodologies such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and/or DevSecOps.
• Gathering, documenting, and managing delivery of technical and functional requirements for IT solutions.
• Working with diverse stakeholders, prioritizing and assigning tasks, removing blockers, managing risk, tracking and reporting statuses, and briefing senior leadership on progress.
• Developing formal technical documentation, such as workflow diagrams, standards, procedures, user stories, policies, SLAs, test plans, roadmaps, briefings, etc.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, presentation, and training skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences, as well as senior-level executives.
• Shall meet the Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce CSWF Requirements Research & Development Specialist (661) for SECNAV M 5239.2 compliance (Navy Cool Website).

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional project management certification, such as Project+, CAPM, PMP, or similar.
• Experience planning, designing, engineering, testing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale Enterprise information systems. Understanding of IC, DoD, or Department of the Navy policies and practices governing IT.
• Exposure to architectural frameworks commonly used in Government agencies, such as DoDAF.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, or Data Science from an accredited University

Certifications:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); or
• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+); or
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH); or
• CompTIA Security+ CE