Senior Project Manager

KAIROS Inc•Pax River, MD

9d•$135,000 - $185,000•Onsite

About The Position

KAIROS, Inc. is seeking an energetic, experienced, and highly motivated Senior Project Manager to join our team. Established in July 2013, KAIROS, Inc. is a growing Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) specializing in Life Cycle Program Management, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Logistics and Sustainment, Enterprise Platforms and AI, and Additive Manufacturing services. Our headquarters is in California, MD near Naval Air Station Patuxent River. This position will perform the planning, execution, and successful delivery of Advana-related projects and development initiatives. This position requires a proven leader with direct experience managing complex data integration, analytics, and digital transformation efforts within multi-stakeholder environments. The Senior Project Manager leads cross-functional teams in the execution of strategic projects, ensuring alignment with program objectives, stakeholder expectations, and organizational priorities. The role requires the ability to collaborate effectively across government, industry, and technical teams to achieve desired outcomes while meeting project schedules, performance objectives, and key milestones.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience supporting products and data onboarding efforts within the Advana, War Data Platform, and/or Jupiter with an understanding of the platform’s data acquisition and governance processes
Experience managing large-scale data onboarding efforts
Strong understanding of DoD data governance
Ability to coordinate cross-functionally across government stakeholders, platform teams, data engineers, developers, and mission customers
Ability to understand technical data dependencies and translate detailed onboarding activities into actionable plans, reporting, assessments, and executive-level communication.
Strong customer relations, analytics, and documentation skills
Self-starter, highly motivated, strong work ethic with a commitment to quality
Microsoft office suite proficiency, i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Ability to work within a challenging, fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Ability to work independently
Ability to multi-task and meet competing, deliverable deadlines
Detail oriented
Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to provide clear status and/or communicate issues
Ability to adapt to evolving technology
10 years leading end-to-end planning and execution of large-scale data acquisition and onboarding efforts
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Must be able to complete the full background investigation
Requires an Active Secret Security Clearance

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end planning and execution of large-scale data acquisition and onboarding efforts, coordinating priorities, schedules, dependencies, risks, and deliverables across multiple data sources and stakeholder organizations.
Serve as a primary liaison with data owners, data stewards, governance teams, platform teams, and mission stakeholders to define onboarding requirements, resolve issues, and maintain alignment throughout the acquisition lifecycle.
Manage and communicate the status of data onboarding activities, maintaining visibility into source identification, access approvals, ingestion, validation, governance reviews, and production readiness while proactively addressing blockers and schedule impacts.
Develop, coordinate, and maintain required data governance and onboarding documentation, including data agreements, access requirements, data inventories, governance artifacts, approvals, and supporting technical documentation.
Establish and maintain program-level metrics, reporting, and executive status updates that provide leadership with clear visibility into onboarding progress, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and overall data acquisition performance.