Director of Delivery

SOSi•Reston, VA

3d•$250,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

SOSi delivers software, cyber, and enterprise IT systems across INDOPACOM, EUCOM, SOCOM, and the global DoDIN. This role is for a single owner responsible for the technical solution and capability portfolio. The individual will own the technical solution on competitive pursuits, including architecture, staffing, basis of estimate, and delivery timeline, ensuring proposed solutions reflect actual delivery capabilities. They will also manage the intake, requirements, and roadmap process, connecting Business Units with engineering and solutions capacity. The scope includes a team of business analysts and solution architects supporting programs across defense, intelligence, and federal civilian sectors. The role involves operating as the primary partner for Business Unit leadership, owning the delivery playbook, quality standards, and leading the business analyst and solution architect team, with full authority to restructure, hire, and define career paths. Automation of delivery work is also a key responsibility, working with the Applied AI team.

Requirements

Must be able to obtain a Top Secret SCI clearance.
10+ years in solution architecture leadership, technology delivery, or program management, with clear progression into leadership.
Experience building a solutions, delivery, or customer success function rather than inheriting one.
Experience owning the technical solution on competitive pursuits and carrying it through execution, including identifying and fixing handoff breaks.
Experience running intake and prioritization against fixed capacity, including telling internal stakeholders no and maintaining relationships.
Experience driving requirements definition with stakeholders who could not articulate what they wanted.
Daily hands-on use of AI tooling in your own work, including specifying automated workflows and judging output trustworthiness.
Delivery experience in highly regulated environments.
Ability to translate across technical, product, and program teams.

Nice To Haves

Active in-scope TS/SCI with FS Poly.
Forward deployed engineering, deployment strategy, solutions engineering, or professional services leadership at a product company.
Ownership of a capability or product catalog used to qualify what can be proposed.
COCOM experience: INDOPACOM, SOCOM, EUCOM, or equivalent.
Rapid deployment under the Software Pathway or Other Transaction Agreements.

Responsibilities

Own the technical solution on competitive pursuits: architecture, staffing model, basis of estimate, and delivery timeline.
Ensure proposed solutions reflect how SOSi actually delivers.
Maintain the authoritative view of SOSi products and capabilities, including maturity, reuse boundaries, and proposable offerings.
Work with product owners to inform solutioning with roadmap reality and shape product plans with pursuit demand.
Arbitrate build, reuse, or partner decisions.
Feed post-award reality back into future solutioning.
Run intake for Business Unit requests against a published response standard, turning requests into scoped, estimable work with a named owner, and declining requests with stated reasons.
Drive requirements definition with Business Unit stakeholders, ensuring work starts from written, agreed scope.
Publish roadmaps by Business Unit and portfolio-wide on a fixed cadence, with work in progress and capacity visible in a system of record.
Chair the delivery review with Business Unit leadership, sequencing the queue, recording commitments, and escalating unresolved issues to the CTO.
Set hypercare for every transition to sustainment, defining entry criteria, duration, named support owner, and exit criteria.
Operate as the partner Business Unit leadership chooses to bring problems to first.
Own the delivery playbook and the quality bar for deliverables and customer-facing work products, partnering with Quality to keep standards practical.
Lead and scale the business analyst and solution architect team, with full authority to restructure, hire, and define roles and career paths.
Identify delivery work worth automating and write requirements and acceptance criteria for the Applied AI team, validating the trustworthiness of the output.