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Director, VP of Forward Deployed Engineering – TS/SCI
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Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota, 55792, USA
Listed on 2026-07-13
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Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-13
Job specializations:
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Management
Program / Project Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Responsibilities
- Lead the Forward Deployed Team.
- Hire, develop, and retain senior team leads.
- Set the technical bar and run architecture review.
- Own staffing across accounts.
- Own senior customer relationships.
- Be the executive point of contact for senior DoD/DoW (PEOs, Service CIOs/CDOs, CDAO leadership, Combatant Command J6/J8) and civilian agency leadership (CIO, CTO, CDO, mission directorate heads).
- Brief senior stakeholders.
- Brief flag/general officers, SES executives, congressional staff, and PEOs credibly — both on what we do technically and on what we will deliver, when.
- Drive program execution and capture.
- Partner with growth/BD to shape and capture programs.
- Convert pilots into programs of record across OTAs, MTAs, the software acquisition pathway, IDIQs, BPAs, and prime/sub structures.
- Own ATO / cATO strategy at the company level.
- Decide which IL boundaries we invest in (IL5 → IL6 → IC ICD 503), what we accredit ourselves vs. inherit, and how we sequence.
- Sponsor high-side deployments.
- Ensure the team has the cleared people, hardware, and contracts to operate inside Advana, SIPR, JWICS, and air-gapped enclaves.
- Bring the field back to product.
- Sit on the product leadership table.
- Translate field learnings into the roadmap and decide what becomes product vs. solution.
- Technical depth, not just management.
- CS or related background; has personally shipped software earlier in career and can argue architecture trade-offs in real time.
- 10+ years delivering software into DoD/DoW and/or civilian federal agencies.
- Personally on the hook for ATOs and milestones.
- Existing senior-level rolodex across GO/FO, SES, PEO, and senior staff in DoD/DoW and/or major civilian agencies.
- Track record of taking capabilities from pilot to a sustained, funded program in active mission use.
- Personal fluency operating in IL5/IL6, SIPR, and JWICS environments.
- End-to-end cATO experience.
- Familiarity with Advana / CDAO required.
- Built and run technical delivery teams of 10+.
- Hired senior engineers from federal-focused vendors, FFRDCs, software factories, and primes.
- Active TS/SCI required at offer.
- SCI with current poly is a plus.
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