Mid-Level Project Manager / Product Lead

Responsibilities

PeopleTec is currently seeking a Mid-Level Project Manager / Product Lead to support our DC-area offices of the Chief Digital and AI Office in Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, and Arlington locations.

 

Duties Include:

• Develop a generalized tool to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data

• Participate in DoD and government AI/ML Task Forces, connect with others in DoD working on similar capabilities, and share best practices with an LLM community of practice

• Extend a generalized API deployed to NIPR to semantically search, summarize, and categorize unstructured data and enable others across the Department to use the API within the paradigm of CDAO / Advana 1.2's self-service model

• Support the installation of the capability on other networks at different classification levels, including SIPRnet and JWICS

• Includes a set of swappable containers with different functions that provide inputs and outputs through an API.

• Develop methodology to test how Search performance (with varying levels of prompt engineering)

• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data

• Develop a cost model for semantic search API use cases

• Contribute to and drive a demand signal for a data operations playbook for unstructured data

• Develop and document a strategy and implementation plan to ingest and consistently store unstructured data on the Advana platform, following the Bronze/Silver/Gold table paradigm (i.e. raw files in bronze, parsed/transformed data in silver, cleaned, processed and data available for query in gold)

• Develop an approach to address issues arising from maintaining semantic indices associated with document change management and version control for unstructured data, such as when a new manual comes out to replace a previous version

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 CDAO’s 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.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, tools, and with the Product Owner role within the Scaled Agile Framework.
• Ability to identify key users and non-customer stakeholders, as well as to balancing the needs of all product stakeholders.
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests and turn those into user stories and tasks for a product backlog.
• Experience grooming and prioritizing SCRUM team backlogs
• Ability to coordinate product backlogs across development teams to effectively share subject matter experts, ensuring all product teams maintain velocity.
• Ability to analyze and recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
• DevSecOps experience, knowledge of CI/CD tooling.
• Experience working with software and data engineers developing products integrating containerized environments.
• Experience working with software engineers and data scientists utilizing distributed computing environments for AI/ML and Big Data workloads, such as Apache Spark or Databricks
• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services and current front-end frameworks used by the development teams.
• Track record of active learning and creative problem solving
• Travel: <10 %
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility upon hire, and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their e