IT Strategy and Portfolio Lead (TS/SCI, Contingent)

Zaden Tech•BWI area, Maryland (on site), MD

4d•$130,000 - $155,000•Onsite

About The Position

This position is contingent upon contract award. Start date follows award and a 30-day transition. Be the senior strategic and operational advisor to a Government CIO for a DoD cyber mission customer in the Baltimore-Washington area. You'll drive enterprise IT and cybersecurity initiatives from strategy through execution: portfolio governance, enterprise architecture, cloud and data strategy, and the planning and briefing cadence a CIO and CISO run on.

Requirements

An active TS/SCI clearance at the time of application (U.S. citizenship required).
PMP certification.
Within the last three years, at least one year leading and supervising teams working across the DoDI 8140 workforce elements: IT (cyberspace), cybersecurity, software engineering, and data/AI.
Within the last five years, experience briefing a CIO and CISO on agency-wide planned, recommended and directed actions.
Within the last seven years, at least two years overseeing personnel executing orders from USCYBERCOM or a subordinate command, the National Manager for National Security Systems, or another commander with authority over the supported systems.
Within the last ten years, at least three years leading and supervising teams in Government and private networking and infrastructure environments, classified and unclassified.
Within the last ten years, at least three years building, operating, securing, defending and extending LAN/WAN systems: wireless, firewalls, routing and switching, IPv6, VPN, cloud, virtualized servers and storage.
Within the last seven years, at least five years with unified communications, including design, installation, maintenance and administration of VTC systems across unclassified, Secret and TS/SCI environments.
Within the last three years, at least one year leading teams running a CI/CD pipeline with containerization, micro-segmentation and Infrastructure as Code.
Within the last five years, at least two years leading teams migrating legacy systems into multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
Within the last seven years, at least two years leading personnel developing and implementing data lakes and modern data strategies.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain and align enterprise IT strategic initiatives, portfolio and acquisition strategies and roadmaps, synchronized with the customer's mission and cyber frameworks.
Lead enterprise IT architecture, cloud computing strategy and enterprise data strategy, and run portfolio governance with clear structures, processes and reporting.
Optimize IT resource allocation and program dependencies with data-driven analysis, including cost-benefit analyses for build-versus-buy decisions.
Brief the CIO and CISO on agency-wide planned, recommended and directed actions.
Lead teams that receive, plan, execute and report on orders issued by USCYBERCOM or a subordinate command, or another commander with authority over the customer's systems.
Lead teams running CI/CD pipelines, hybrid and multi-cloud migrations, and modern data platforms.