Program Manager Location: Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, or Arlington Hybrid (must be able to commute to one of the above offices 2-3 times per week) Clearance Required: must have an active Top-Secret (TS) clearance (must be able to achieve a TS/SCI clearance with scope) Position Overview: Supports the Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer's (CDAO) Mission Analytics / Core Analytics Products, Search Products Portfolio, and Unstructured Data Search Enhanced by AI/ML (UD/SEAM). The Program Manager is responsible for overseeing two SCRUM teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and and Full Stack Developers, with a Product Lead. Major Duties/Tasks: Assists with planning, developing, testing, and documenting Search Portfolio products. Applies business process improvement practices, modernizing projects, acquisition process/planning, and reengineering old methodologies and principles. Support agency teams in development and management of milestones, goals, and deliverables for each of the Search Portfolio products Coordinating and rationalizing CDAOs technical efforts to support AI/ML enabled indexing, search, and augmented retrieval of unstructured data sets. Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns. Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies. Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards. Works with mission teams to engage with potential customers within the DOD and identifies and evaluates prospective projects Requirements: Required Education: Bachelors degree plus 7-10 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 5 years of experience. Required Skills/Experience: Possess a minimum of ten years of Project Management experience managing complex projects in an IT engineering or big data environment. Possess a minimum of an active Top Secret (TS) security clearance (must be able to achieve a TS/SCI clearance with scope) Possess a minimum of five years of experience managing projects utilizing non- traditional program management methodologies (e.g., Agile) in big data, AI/MLOps, and DevSecOps environments. Possess a minimum of five years of experience in a military or other Government environment performing in a related subject area (e.g., project management, engineering, or computer science). Ability to track and report aggregated personnel utilization and budget usage across the Search portfolio. Strong communications skills: Ability to proactively engage fellow CDAO members within and beyond the team as well as DoD cross-organizational communications. Possess an active certification in one of the following: Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional, PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification, or equivalent program or project management certification. Experience with multi-intelligence and multi-domain systems and understanding of current object and activity-based models in the community. Preferred Skills and Qualifications: Possess a Master of Business and Management (MBM), a Master of Business Administration (MBA), or a masters degree in a related technical discipline (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, or Electronics). Experience with: the DoDs CDAO, Advana, or other CDAO products Agile methodology AI-enhanced search AI/ML for information retrieval and insight extraction An active TS/SCI clearance