Technical Program Leader, Senior Manager at Booz Allen in McLean, VA

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Technical Program Leader, Senior Manager The Opportunity: You know that program managers touch every single part of a business and wear multiple hats: from caring for the customer and their meaningful project goals to participating in business development and being a key contributor to their employees’ growth. We’re looking for someone like you, a senior program leader that can oversee a portfolio of research and data science initiatives supporting Army customers. This role is responsible for end-to-end program execution, including managing budget s, deliverables, subcontractors, and geographically distributed teams across multiple concurrent projects to support one of the DoW’s data research and analytics environments. As a leader on our team, you will provide strong operational leadership, ensuring effective staffing, clear scope definition, and consistent delivery while serving as a t rus ted partner to both customers and internal teams. You will oversee the delivery of data engineering, data science, research, and enterprise platform IT operations. As you guide a team of data architects, data engineers, and data scientists, you’ll partner with customers to support operating an efficient and effective analytical or AI platform for critical research programs. In addition to driving performance, you will play a key role in shaping strategy, identifying innovative solutions, and supporting the growth and sustainment of the program within a dynamic research environment. You’ll move quickly in an exciting and fluid environment to lead the Agile development of a project roadmap, establish project milestones, and implement met rics to track progress of efforts while bringing people together to make a tangible difference. Work with us to transform the future of digital AI or data platforms. Join us. The world can’t wait. You Have: 12+ years of experience planning, directing, coordinating, and managing programs such as data platforms, engineering, data science, enterprise analytics, and solution architecture 12+ years of experience building and sustaining partnerships with government organizations and senior government executives 12+ years of experience with leadership, including leading dispersed cross-functional teams in the areas of engineering, architecture, analytics, and AI / ML, including subcontractors 10+ years of experience leading the design, development, and implementation of enterprise data platforms and analytics Experience leveraging client relationships, market knowledge, and government acquisition best practices to position the Army account and Army customers for continued growth, opportunity wins, and long-term initiatives to advance AI or research, defining scope of work, and developing schedules, plans of action, and ROM estimates to drive successful program execution and risk management Knowledge of Agile met hodologies and their application within complex research and data science environments and data quality standards, governance, and best practices to ensure accuracy, integrity, and compliance across analytical and research efforts Ability to manage large programs and interface with senior DoW clients Ability to recruit, hire, and strategically staff high-performing teams aligned to mission needs and evolving project demands Secret clearance Bachelor's degree Nice If You Have: Experience improving processes and efficiencies in data and team management Experience with Palantir Foundry Knowledge of Micro sof t Office products, including project management using Micro sof t Project Ability to pick up new technologies quickly, including new low-code / no-code sof tware and open-source technologies Ability to interact with a broad group of clients and staff professionals, and deliver presentations to executives, clients, and professional peers Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field preferred ; Master's degree a plus Project Management Professional or CompTIA Security+ Certification