Senior Program Manager
Herndon, VA
Full Time Senior-level / Expert Clearance required USD 143K - 266K *
Clarity Innovations
We are your trusted partner for edtech strategy, content, and engineering.Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
Job DescriptionClarity seeks intelligent, dedicated, and passionate top-notch individuals to join our high-performing team. We provide a work atmosphere that fosters professional and individual growth while working toward common goals. As a Program Manager you will lead multi-functional teams providing solutions to challenging problems in the cyber operations mission domain across a broad set of Federal Government customers.
This program focuses on the development an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven system designed to support cyber operations through enhanced infrastructure decision-making processes, optimized resource allocation, and operational risk management within complex digital environments. This initiative focuses on automating the end-to-end process of planning and executing offensive cyber missions based on risk informed, data-driven decision making. The program also emphasizes agility and efficiency, enabling rapid development, deployment, and collaboration on mission-critical projects while maintaining compliance with federal standards and guidelines for classified operations.
*This position will allow partial remote work.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Program Manager for a 20+ person team developing solutions for challenging problems in cyberspace
- Build cohesion, continuity, and resiliency in order to ensure a healthy team
- Build strong and trusting relationships with customers and stakeholders
- Ensure stakeholder feedback, concerns, and issues are regularly captured and addressed
- Manage execution to achieve program cost, technical, and schedule commitments
- Ensure objectives and scope are commonly understood and well documented
- Ensure requirements are clear, decomposed, and verifiable
- Keep schedules accurate and with well-defined deliverables
- Work aggressively to ensure projects have required resources to meet all commitments and team needs, e.g. staffing, supplies, licenses, hardware, etc.
- Project Management:
- Lead and manage cloud operations, security operations, and development projects from inception through completion.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and budgets.
- Build and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure project objectives are met.
- Monitor project progress and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
- Customer Engagement:
- Act as a senior point of contact for customers.
- Understand customer requirements and translate them into actionable project plans.
- Ensure customer satisfaction by delivering high-quality solutions and support.
- Technical Expertise:
- Experience leading teams through the software development life cycle and delivering capabilities to operations.
- Oversee the runtime environment for client operations, ensuring optimal performance and uptime.
- Implement and manage team progress on all technical aspects of the project while ensuring security, scalability, and efficiency.
- Track and enable Agile Software Development practices
- Mission First Mindset
- Proven experience in project management, preferably in cloud operations, IT infrastructure, or software development supporting production systems.
- Strong understanding Cyber Operations and USCC
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) are a plus.
- Top Secret Security Clearance with the ability to acquire SCI
- 5+ years of Project Management experience managing solution development efforts in cloud deployments, software/application development, and/or Cyber Operations domain with Federal Government customers. This includes domain or technical expertise, financial management expertise and pricing knowledge.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of software development, specifically Agile methodologies
- Attitude of team success before self
- A drive for excellence and quality
- Experience developing cyber operations tools and and an understanding of the unique needs and concerns associated with building them
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Agile Artificial Intelligence AWS CI/CD Clearance Cloud Compliance DevSecOps DoD IT infrastructure Risk management SDLC Security Clearance Top Secret
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