Data Task Lead

Five Stones Research Corporation•Linthicum Heights, MD

About The Position

Five Stones Research Corporation (5SRC) is seeking a Data Task Lead to oversee the design, governance, and modernization of an enterprise IT ecosystem. The role manages architecture, data management, and solution design to deliver secure, scalable, and interoperable outcomes. It serves as the primary technical liaison between government stakeholders and contractors, ensures the quality of technical deliverables, and advises on architectural risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities. This position is contingent upon contract award. The Data Task Lead develops and governs enterprise architecture, leads IT solution design and modernization, and oversees delivery of cloud, cybersecurity, configuration-management, data-governance, and AI/ML capabilities. The role supervises teams, manages IT and cybersecurity project governance and lifecycle activities, and provides enterprise architecture and software/cloud architecture expertise. The position is based in Linthicum Heights, Maryland, with some travel expected, and requires U.S. citizenship and an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or Engineering.
At least five years of experience within the last ten years designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-scale IT solutions in a DoD or Intelligence Community environment.
At least five years of experience within the last ten years developing and implementing architectural artifacts in accordance with the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
At least five years of experience within the last ten years developing and implementing an enterprise data-governance framework, including data modeling, data-quality management, and establishing a data catalog.
At least five years of experience within the last ten years designing and managing solutions in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) environments at DoD Impact Levels 4, 5, and 6.
U.S. citizenship.
DoD TS/SCI security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Ten years of relevant experience.
AWS Solutions Architect Professional and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
TOGAF certification.
CISSP or CCSP certification.
ITIL 4 certification.
PMP certification.
Experience standing up or operating a cATO pipeline on AWS GovCloud with eMASS control inheritance and migrating workloads from Azure IL4/IL5.
Cross Domain Solution design and experience in SIPR-connected environments.
Windows and RHEL administration depth sufficient to supervise the DAMO FTE.
Data-platform and business-intelligence delivery on the DAF Microsoft stack, including Power BI, Fabric or Synapse, and DAF365 SharePoint.
Experience with MongoDB, Oracle, and Salesforce (DS1).
Records- and knowledge-management program experience.
Applied AI/ML experience with DevSecOps model lifecycle controls.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and govern enterprise technical architecture aligned with DoDAF, Zero Trust principles, and strategic mandates.
Lead technical assessment and design of new IT solutions, preserving architectural integrity, scalability, and interoperability for development or acquisition.
Co-lead enterprise technology roadmaps and guide transition from legacy systems to modernized cloud-native and hybrid platforms; maintain the IT Enterprise roadmap.
Lead and supervise teams developing CI/CD pipelines, containerization, micro-segmentation, Infrastructure as Code, and ATO/cATO automation capabilities.
Implement IaC/CaC, continuous monitoring and observability, data tagging and attribution, and the configuration management system.
Establish, maintain, and evolve CADO-IS enterprise architecture under DoDAF; deliver the CADO-IS Enterprise Architecture Report and Configuration Management Plan, and run configuration management across stakeholders.
Lead implementation and operation of multi-impact-level cloud and on-premises environments across IL2, IL4, IL5, and IL6, including logging across ATO/cATO boundaries, continuous monitoring, Cross Domain Solutions, and CSSP capability integration.
Direct maintenance of VDP VRMN systems and automated NIPR/SIPR/DIB vulnerability-report synchronization; promote Automated Data Obfuscation adoption with mission partners.
Establish and maintain IT project governance structures, manage the full IT and cybersecurity project lifecycle, and regularly deliver the IT Project Governance Structures package.
Lead the enterprise data-governance framework, interoperable data standards, tagging and metadata management, data-quality monitoring, and the Microsoft-stack business-intelligence environment.
Lead interagency data sharing, records management under NARA schedules, and knowledge management.
Lead the AI/ML lifecycle, including use-case identification, data readiness, model development, testing, validation, deployment, and continuous monitoring under DevSecOps principles.
Provide subject-matter expertise consistent with DoDM 8140 Enterprise Architect and Software/Cloud Architect work roles and represent the organization on the EA Council and Cloud Governance Council.
Deliver design and as-built documentation, user manuals, and training materials.
Supervise teams.